New Sounds of Baroque Dance Forms
For this New Sounds program, listen to a suite of pieces by Caroline Shaw, a member of the vocal ensemble, Roomful of Teeth. All of the movements in her suite are named after baroque dance forms, how...
View ArticleCaroline Shaw Wins 2013 Pulitzer for Music
Caroline Shaw, a New York-based composer, has won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for music for her Partita for 8 Voices.The award, one of seven given in the arts, was announced Monday afternoon by the...
View ArticleCaroline Shaw's Pulitzer Prize Pop-Up Festival
On Monday, April 15, the Pulitzer Prize committee awarded its 2013 music prize to the 30-year-old, New York-based composer Caroline Shaw. Q2 Music celebrates this remarkable achievement today, April...
View ArticleThe Young and the Restless
New York City has always been a haven for ensembles dedicated to new music, but the scene seems to have exploded recently—an impressive roster of new music groups have sprung up in the last several...
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Music of Caroline Shaw with Roomful of Teeth & ACME (American Contemporary...
This fall’s New Sounds Live events in October represent the first-ever survey of the music of Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw, “a musician of many sorts.” Shaw performs as a violinist with the...
View ArticleListen: Caroline Shaw and Roomful of Teeth
On Tuesday, Oct. 15 at 7 pm, Q2 Music streamed the first in a series of two live audio webcasts celebrating the music of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw.Presented in partnership with...
View ArticleListen: Caroline Shaw and ACME (American Contemporary Music Ensemble)
On Wednesday, Oct. 16 at 7 pm, Q2 Music streamed the second in a series of two live audio webcasts featuring the music of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw.Presented in partnership with...
View ArticleNew Music/Baroque Forms
Hear new music based on baroque forms like passacaglias, bourrees and courantes on this New Sounds. Hear a passacaglia from Caroline Shaw, the Pulitzer Prize-winning NYC-based composer from her...
View ArticleNew Sounds Live: Music of Caroline Shaw
From the recent New Sounds Live at the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place, listen to music by this year's Pulitzer Prize winning composer Caroline Shaw. Hear works for both of her groups, the brilliant...
View ArticleNew Sounds Live: Music of Caroline Shaw, Part 2
From the recent New Sounds Live at the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place, listen to more music by this year's Pulitzer Prize winning composer Caroline Shaw. Hear works for both of her groups, the...
View ArticleEight Artists Remix Caroline Shaw
Last April, composer Caroline Shaw became the youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for her Partita – an a cappella composition written for the vocal octet Roomful of Teeth. Drawing on Baroque dance...
View ArticleNew Sounds of Baroque Dance Forms
For this New Sounds program, listen to a suite of pieces by Caroline Shaw, a member of the vocal ensemble, Roomful of Teeth. All of the movements in her suite are named after baroque dance forms, how...
View ArticleQ2 Music Presents 'Meet the Composer' Launch Party
BUY TICKETS NOWCelebrate the launch of Q2 Music’s groundbreaking new podcast, Meet the Composer, on Tuesday, June 24 at 7 pm with a music party and live videocast in The Greene Space at WQXR!Funded...
View ArticleMusic Inspired By Painters, Part 1
This New Sounds program is the first of a three-part series of music dealing with paintings and/or painters. Inspired by (electric) violinist Tracy Silverman, and his most recent release, “Between the...
View ArticleLaunch Party and Concert: Caroline Shaw
Caroline Shaw, who "triangulate(s) between violin, singing and composing" and is featured in Meet the Composer Episode Four, wrote her piece in manus tuas for solo cello about a neo-gothic church in...
View ArticlePreview: Caroline Shaw Lives Life Beautifully
Caroline Shaw began her love affair with music at the age of two, when her mom started teaching her violin. Throughout her childhood, Caroline had a lesson every Wednesday afternoon, and sang and...
View ArticleCaroline Shaw Lives Life Beautifully: Playlist
Hear a piece of music you loved in the show and want to learn or hear more? Scroll down for a complete breakdown of all the music used for scoring and illustration in episode four – Caroline Shaw Lives...
View ArticleCaroline Shaw Lives Life Beautifully
Caroline Shaw began her love affair with music at the age of two, when her mom started teaching her violin. Throughout her childhood, Caroline had a lesson every Wednesday afternoon, and sang and...
View ArticleCaroline Shaw Lives Life Beautifully: I. Garden Variety
Caroline Shaw came from a violin-centric household — her mom was a violin teacher, her older brothers played violin — and so every Wednesday from age six to eighteen she took lessons. She even attended...
View ArticleCaroline Shaw Lives Life Beautifully: II. Sacred and Profane
After earning her masters degree in violin performance at Yale School of Music, Caroline spent a few years singing in professional church choirs, improvising in dance classes, and playing on the New...
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