Caroline Shaw, recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in music for her work Partita for 8 Voices, will be in residence at the San 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 San 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.”

During her time at SFCM, Shaw will bring her expertise as a composer, singer, and violinist to work with choral and instrumental groups, visit studio classes, talk to composers, and work with students in SFCM’s Technology and Applied Composition program. Shaw’s residency culminates with An Evening with Caroline Shaw on March 3 at 8pm, in which she will perform, discuss her career with Provost & Dean Kate Sheeran, and coach and perform with SFCM's graduate string quartet, the Thalea Quartet. This event is free to the public. Shaw will also appear in SFCM's Transformations: Baroque Variations concert, featuring faculty and students, on March 4 at 8pm.

Caroline Shaw won the Pulitzer Prize for Music at age 30, making her the award’s youngest recipient. She was appointed as the inaugural musician-in-residence at Dumbarton Oaks, a research library in Washington, D.C., and she is composer-in-residence with Vancouver’s Music on Main. Shaw is a Grammy-winning and currently Grammy-nominated singer in Roomful of Teeth. She has performed with ACME (American Contemporary Music Ensemble), the Trinity Wall Street Choir, Alarm Will Sound, the Mark Morris Dance Group Ensemble, The Knights, Victoire, Ensemble Signal, and many others. While maintaining a busy freelance career as a violinist and singer, performing primarily contemporary classical music, Shaw has taken commissions to create new work for the Carmel Bach Festival, the Cincinnati Symphony, the Guggenheim Museum (FLUX Quartet), The Crossing, and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Other projects include the development of an evening-length theater work, Ritornello, and an ambient electronic album. Shaw holds degrees in violin from Rice and Yale, and is currently a doctoral candidate in composition at Princeton University. Read more about Caroline Shaw at www.carolineshaw.com