Caroline Shaw (born 1982) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Though best known for her vocal and choral music, Shaw's compositions also include chamber, orchestral, multimedia and solo instrumental music, as well as film scores.
List of compositions
Voice
Cantico delle creature (2007), for soprano, violin, and piano (with an arrangement for an additional cello), premiered by Abigail Haynes Lennox, and Shaw in April 2007. By and By, for string quartet and voice, premiered by Abigail Lennox and the Hudson Quartet on March 11, 2010. Sounds of the Ocean Cassette Vol. 1, for narrator, cassette player, and two instruments, premiered in September 2011. Fly Away I, for SATB chorus, premiered by the International Orange Chorale of San Francisco in June 2012. Partita for 8 Voices, four pieces for eight singers, written 2009–2011 for Roomful of Teeth, premiered as a whole on November 4, 2013, winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Its Motion Keeps, for treble chorus and viola or cello, commissioned by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, premiered, with Shaw on viola, in November 2013. Music in Common Time, for chorus and strings, premiered by Roomful of Teeth and A Far Cry on May 10, 2014. Anni’s Constant, for chorus, two violins, cello, piano, guitar, bass guitar, and percussion, commissioned by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and BAM, premiered November 2014. and the swallow, for SATB chorus, on text from Psalm 84; premiered by the Netherlands Chamber Choir on November 11, 2017. Dolce Cantavi, for three voices (SSA), on a text by Francesca Turina Bufalini, Contessa di Stupinigi (1544-1641), commissioned and premiered by TENET (Jolle Greenleaf, Molly Quinn, and Virginia Warnken Kelsey performing). Cant voi l’aube (2016), on an anonymous 12th century French trouvère text; written for Anne Sofie von Otter and Brooklyn Rider. To the Hands (2016), commissioned by The Crossing for Seven Responses, a seven-piece compilation inspired by Dieterich Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri cantatas. so quietly (2016), premiered on June 9, 2016, by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. This Might Also Be a Form of Dreaming (2016), for voices and small chamber group, on text from Don't Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia Rankine, commissioned by the Ojai Music Festival where it was premiered on June 11, 2016, by Shaw and Roomful of Teeth. Is a Rose, three songs commissioned by the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra for Anne Sofie von Otter: red, red rose (2016), on words by Robert Burns The Edge (2017), on words by Jacob Polley And So (2018), on words by Shaw, Burns, Gertrude Stein, and Billy Joel Narrow Sea (2017), a five-part song cycle on texts from The Sacred Harp. How to fold the Wind (2020), for 12-part SATB chorus; premiered by Ars Nova Copenhagen on September 20, 2020.
Solo instrument
in manus tuas, for cello or viola, premiered by Hannah Collins in 2009. Gustave Le Gray, for piano, premiered by Amy Yang on April 24, 2012. The Walking Man, for shakuhachi, written with and for Riley Lee, premiered on April 3, 2012.