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Caroline Shaw is a violinist, singer, and composer, working in a variety of formats. Her original music has recently been featured at Mass MoCA (permanent sound installation outside the museum within artist Jane Philbrick’s “Expanded Field”), Manchester Chamber Music, De Link (Netherlands), and on the upcoming Roomful of Teeth album (2012 release). Caroline has performed with the Mark Morris Dance Group Ensemble, the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), A Winged Victory for the Sullen, the Yale Baroque Ensemble, Roomful of Teeth, Alarm Will Sound, Wordless Music, Signal, The Yehudim, Victoire, Opera Cabal, and the Oracle Hysterical. Upcoming engagements include the Jeff Mangum-curated All Tomorrow’s Parties, in Minehead, UK (with ACME), the Ecstatic Music Festival in New York (with Roomful of Teeth & Glasser), and Wordless Music’s presentation of Johann Johannsson at the Winter Garden. She holds a B.M. (violin) from Rice and an M.M. (violin) from Yale, and she is currently a doctoral fellow in composition at Princeton. She is a former Thomas J. Watson Fellow (historical landscape architecture) and Yale Baroque Ensemble fellow.

Favorite color: yellow, sometimes green. Favorite smell: rosemary. Favorite sound: vaguely in-tune mandolin.