Dumbarton Oaks is delighted to introduce Caroline Adelaide Shaw as the recipient of the inaugural Early-Career Musician Residency.
Trained as a violinist, Ms. Shaw is also a singer in the Grammy Award–winning Roomful of Teeth. In 2013, she became the youngest ever winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music for her composition Partita for 8 Voices. As a violinist, Ms. Shaw performs primarily with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME).
As well as being a New York–based musician, Ms. Shaw is currently a doctoral candidate in composition at Princeton University. She previously studied at Rice (BM, violin) and Yale (MM, violin), and she held a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship in 2004–2005.
Caroline Adelaide Shaw will be in residence at Dumbarton Oaks for the fall term, from September 8, 2014, to January 2, 2015.