Caroline Shaw

2018 Convocation: Collaborative performance with first-year Dance Division students and fellow Creative Associates Lil Buck, Michelle Dorrance, and Bill Irwin View Video

Guest Artist at Arts and Society Class: Featured guest in the President’s Arts and Society class on the intersections of civic engagement, various disciplines, and artistic practice

Who’s in the Lobby?: Pop-up performance on the steps of the main lobby of selections from “By & By” with Juilliard musicians in Historical Performance and Classical Music View Video

Lunch and Learn: A moderated conversation with President Damian Woetzel on a multifaceted career as a composer, vocalist, violinist, and producer

Chamber Music Coaching: Three private chamber music coachings for two string quartets and one piano quartet on works by Beethoven, Brahms, and Haydn

In Harmony: Caroline Shaw in Conversation and Performance: A public event featuring Juilliard students performing a range of Shaw’s compositions and a spoken word element with poet Sarah Kay, and with a conversation moderated by President Damian Woetzel View Program

Juilliard415 Seven Last Words Project: One of seven commissioned responses to Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Christ which was performed by the Historical Performance ensemble Juilliard415 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine View Program

2019 Gala: Composer for the finale piece Here Is Our Space created with Creative Associate Michelle Dorrance and performed alongside fellow Creative Associates, faculty member Areta Zhulla, and Juilliard music and dance students View Video | View Program

Conversation Series With Nicholas Britell: A conversation with Nicholas Britell to discuss their varied careers and composing across genres View Program

Improvisation Workshop: A three-day experimental improvisation workshop for a Historical Performance chamber ensemble focused on collaboration

Virtual Composition Intensive: A virtual multi-week musical and visual intensive with four student composers to write a short work for one or more members of the Attacca Quartet and create short films to accompany their musical work, along with collaborations and dialogues with the musicians, Shaw, and filmmaker Tristan Cook View Program

Plan and Elevation Virtual Composition Intensive

Caroline Shaw is a musician who moves among roles, genres, and mediums, trying to imagine a world of sound that has never been heard before but has always existed. She works often in collaboration with others, as producer, composer, violinist, and vocalist. Caroline is the recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music, several Grammy awards, an honorary doctorate from Yale, and a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. Recent projects include the score to “Fleishman is in Trouble” (FX/Hulu), vocal work with Rosalía (MOTOMAMI), the score to Josephine Decker’s The Sky Is Everywhere (A24/Apple), music for the National Theatre’s production of The Crucible (dir. Lyndsey Turner), Justin Peck’s Partita with NY City Ballet, the premiere of “Microfictions Vol. 3” for NY Philharmonic and Roomful of Teeth, a live orchestral score for Wu Tsang’s silent film Moby Dick co-composed with Andrew Yee, two albums on Nonesuch (Evergreen and The Blue Hour), and tours with So Percussion featuring songs from “Let The Soil Play Its Simple Part” (Nonesuch). She has contributed production to albums by Rosalía, Woodkid, and Nas. Her favorite color is yellow, and her favorite smell is rosemary.