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Saturday Sept. 21 : Magee Park : 4:15-4:45 (Roomful of Teeth)*

Saturday Sept. 21 : Carlsbad Village Theatre : 9:00-10:00 (Roomful of Teeth)*

Sunday Sept. 22 : St. Michael’s Church : 4:00-5:00 (Roomful of Teeth)*

*Please note that Caroline Shaw will be performing with Roomful of Teeth. The above ticket purchase(s) will include Roomful of Teeth.

‘With Pulitzer, She Became a Composer’ : New York Times : 4.17.2013

• ‘Caroline Shaw, 30, Wins Pulitzer For Music’ : NPR Music : 4.15.2013

Caroline Shaw, originally from North Carolina, is a musician appearing in many guises. She performs primarily as violinist with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) and as vocalist with Roomful of Teeth. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her composition titled “Partita” in 2013. She has also worked with the Trinity Wall Street Choir, Alarm Will Sound, Wordless Music, Ensemble Signal, AXIOM, The Yehudim, Victoire, Opera Cabal, the Mark Morris Dance Group Ensemble, Hotel Elefant, the Oracle Hysterical, Red Light New Music, the Yale Baroque Ensemble, and in collaboration with tUnE-yArDs, Glasser, A Winged Victory for the Sullen, John Cale, Max Richter, and Steve Reich. Caroline’s original music has been described as “a tour de force of vocal mischief-making” (John Schaefer, eMusic) and “vaguely sexual” (Pitchfork). Her works have been performed by Roomful of Teeth, So Percussion, ACME, and the Brentano Quartet. Caroline has been a Yale Baroque Ensemble fellow and a Rice University Goliard fellow (fiddling in Sweden), and she was a recipient of the infamous Thomas J. Watson fellowship, to study historical formal gardens and live out of a backpack. Caroline lives in New York.