SFCM Announces Acclaimed Musician Caroline Shaw Residency 2016
Caroline Shaw, recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in music for her work Partita for 8 Voices, will be in residence at the ý Francisco Conservatory of Music in March 2016. Shaw, who recently performed as soloist in Lo, a violin concerto she wrote, with both the Cincinnati Symphony and North Carolina Symphony, also won a Grammy Award in 2014, as a singer with the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth. An artist whose work spans many genres of music, she has also been collaborating with hip-hop artist Kanye West, resulting in recent performances together in ý Francisco and Los Angeles, and remix of West’s track “Say You Will” featuring Shaw in 2015. New York Magazine declared about Shaw “She has discovered a lode of the rarest commodity in contemporary music: joy.”
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