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Caroline Shaw

American composer, violinist, and singer

Caroline Adelaide Shaw (born August 1, 1982) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, violinist, and singer. She is a founding member of the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth. In 2013 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for her a cappella piece Partita for 8 Voices, and received the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Narrow Sea. She also won the 2025 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for her Rectangles and Circumstance.

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Works

The Long LineThe Long Line
  • 24th Amendment
  • And So
  • And the Swallow
  • Aurora Borealis
  • Blueprint
  • Boris Kerner
  • Cant voi l'aube
  • Divinize
  • Draft of a High-Rise
  • Draft of a High-Rise: I. Inked Frame
  • Draft of a High-Rise: II. A Scribbled Veneer
  • Draft of a High-Rise: III. Their Stenciled Breath
  • Entr'acte
  • From Rivers
  • Gustave Le Gray
  • Is a Rose
  • Is a Rose: No. 1. The Edge
  • Is a Rose: No. 2. And So
  • Is a Rose: No. 3. Red, Red Rose
  • Like a Drum
  • Limestone & Felt
  • Microfictions [volume 1]
  • Microfictions [volume 1]: I. Under the hot sun…
  • Microfictions [volume 1]: II. The photographs smeared…
  • Microfictions [volume 1]: III & 1/2. Between the third and fourth...
  • Microfictions [volume 1]: III. The summer storm laughed…
  • Microfictions [volume 1]: IV. The complete taxonomy…
  • Microfictions [volume 1]: V. Waking up on the early side…
  • Microfictions [volume 1]: VI. The mountains folded in…
  • Music in Common Time
  • Narrow Sea
  • Narrow Sea: I.
  • Narrow Sea: II.
  • Narrow Sea: III.
  • Narrow Sea: IV.
  • Narrow Sea: V.
  • Ochre
  • Ochre: I. Siderite
  • Ochre: II. Limonite
  • Ochre: III. Maghemite
  • Ochre: IV. Magnetite
  • Ochre: V. Hematite
  • Ochre: VI. Vivianite
  • Ochre: VII. Geothite
  • Other Song
  • Partita for 8 Voices
  • Partita for 8 Voices: No. 1. Allemande
  • Partita for 8 Voices: No. 2. Sarabande
  • Partita for 8 Voices: No. 3. Courante
  • Partita for 8 Voices: No. 4. Passacaglia
  • Plan & Elevation
  • Plan & Elevation: I. The Ellipse
  • Plan & Elevation: II. The Cutting Garden
  • Plan & Elevation: III. The Herbaceous Border
  • Plan & Elevation: IV. The Orangery
  • Plan & Elevation: V. The Beech Tree
  • Punctum
  • Really Craft When You
  • Rectangles and Circumstance
  • Reliquia
  • Rise
  • Ritornello 2.sq.2.j.a
  • Schisma
  • Silently Invisibly
  • Sing On
  • Slow Motion
  • So Quietly
  • Taxidermy
  • The Blue Hour
  • The Evergreen
  • The Evergreen: I. Moss
  • The Evergreen: II. Stem
  • The Evergreen: III. Water
  • The Evergreen: IV. Root
  • The Listeners
  • The Listeners: No. 1. Prologue
  • The Listeners: No. 10. Epilogue
  • The Listeners: No. 2. Let Your Soul Stand Cool
  • The Listeners: No. 3. Greeting
  • The Listeners: No. 4. in World's Vast Frame
  • The Listeners: No. 5. Of a Million Million
  • The Listeners: No. 6. That's Us
  • The Listeners: No. 7. Maps
  • The Listeners: No. 8. Sail Through This to That
  • The Listeners: No. 9. Pulsar
  • The Observatory
  • The Wheel
  • This
  • Thousandth Orange
  • Three Essays
  • Three Essays: First Essay (Nimrod)
  • Three Essays: Second Essay (Echo)
  • Three Essays: Third Essay (Ruby)
  • To the Hands
  • To the Hands: I. Prelude: Wordless
  • To the Hands: II. In medio/in the midst
  • To the Hands: III. Her beacon-hand beckons
  • To the Hands: IV. Ever ever ever
  • To the Hands: V. Litany of the Displaced
  • To the Hands: VI. I will hold you
  • Valencia
  • Watermark
  • Watermark: I
  • Watermark: II
  • Watermark: III
  • Who Turns Out the Light
  • Will there be any Stars in my Crown
  • how do i find you
  • in manus tuas