Attacca Quartet & Caroline Shaw

The Attacca Quartet present a special collaboration with the composer Caroline Shaw, who joins them on viola and vocals. The project is a joyful celebration of the connections of great music, both new and old.

Sample programme:

Shaw: Entr’acte

Shaw: Valencia

Shaw: Punctum

Shaw: Five songs

–Intermission–

Mendelssohn: Viola Quintet No.2 op 87 in B flat Major

Caroline Shaw is a New York-based musician — vocalist, violinist, composer, and producer — who performs in solo and collaborative projects. She was the youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2013 for Partita for 8 Voices, written for the Grammy-winning Roomful of Teeth, of which she is a member. She has received commissions from Renée Fleming with Inon Barnatan, Dawn Upshaw with Sō Percussion and Gil Kalish, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s with John Lithgow, the Dover Quartet, the Calidore Quartet, Brooklyn Rider and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. 

Passionate advocates of contemporary repertoire, the Quartet ​“became interested in Caroline because of her prolific and amazing string quartet output. Her sense of wonder and joy pours over her works, and we are so delighted to share them with the world.” 

Attacca Quartet released Orange on Nonesuch Records and New Amsterdam in April 2019, featuring six of Caroline Shaw’s pieces for string quartet. . Greatly received by the critics, Attacca Quartet won the 2020 Grammy award in the category​“Best Chamber Music/​Small Ensemble Performance” in recognition for their work on this album. Orange  has also been featured in NPR´s List of 25 Best Albums of 2019 and 10 Classical Albums to Usher in the Next Decade and in New York Times’ list of the 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2019 for their track Valencia, having been shortlisted for the 2020 BBC Music Magazine Awards.