She is coming to Lithuania for the first time after receiving worldwide recognition JAV singer and composer Caroline Shaw. December 5 of this year. in the newly equipped LVSO concert hall, an exclusive concert is being held concert with the famous New York percussion group Sō Percussion.
Caroline Shaw is an internationally acclaimed vocal performer and composer. Her concerts are a huge success among listeners all over the world, and her work earns solid reviews. At the age of just thirty, Caroline Shaw won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Music (2013) and became the youngest recipient of this award. The artist has even won several Grammy awards. She also received an honorary doctorate from Yale University. As a creator and performer, Caroline Shaw has performed in the most famous concert halls: New York's Carnegie Hall, Los Angeles' Walt Disney Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, London's Barbican Center, Seattle's Benaroya Hall, etc. Her music has been played at Big Ears, Bang on a Can Marathon, Tanglewood, Aspen, Edinburgh and many other world-famous festivals.
Caroline Shaw is a musician who maneuvers between different roles, genres and media, aiming to convey a hitherto unheard but always-existing world of sound. She often collaborates with other artists as a producer, composer, vocalist and violinist. The breadth of Shaw's work is well illustrated by her recent projects, which include the soundtracks for Fleishman is in Trouble (FX/Hulu) and Josephine Decker's musical The Sky Is Everywhere (A24/Apple), the National Theater production of The Crucible (dir. Lyndsey Turner), from Microfictions Vol. 3 premiere with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and Roomful of Teeth, live orchestral soundtrack for Wu Tsang's silent film Moby Dick, albums on Nonesuch Records (Evergreen, Rectangles and Circumstance), music For Helen Simoneau's dance piece Delicate Power, et al.
A talented and prolific composer, over the past decade she has written more than 100 pieces for world-renowned artists including Anne Sofie von Otter, Davóne Tines, Yo Yo Ma, Renée Fleming, Dawn Upshaw, Ariadne Greif, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Philharmonia For Baroque orchestras, Aizuri, Dover, Calidore, Miro, Brooklyn Rider quartets, The Crossing vocal ensemble, I Giardini ensembles, Ars Nova Copenhagen, Brooklyn Youth Choir. She also contributed to the creation of albums by artists Rosalía, Woodkid and Nas.
Caroline Shaw's songs from her and Sō Percussion's joint albums "Rectangles and Circumstance" (2024) and "Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part" (2021) will be performed at this concert in Vilnius. The songs of the last record were born during the joint creation in the recording studio, and their words were inspired by the wide interests of the artists: the work of the writer James Joyce, the poem of Anne Carson, the Bible, the American folk tune "I'll Fly Away", the music of the band "ABBA", etc. Meanwhile, the songs on the album "Rectangles and Circumstance" were inspired by the 25th century. verses by the creators Christina Rosetti, Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein and William Blake. By the way, Caroline Shaw is the guest composer of this year's "Gaida" festival - at the festival, in addition to many of her songs performed in this concert, another work by this composer, "Entr'acte", which will be performed on October XNUMX together with violin virtuoso and conductor Hugo Ticciati will be performed by the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra.
Caroline Shaw a concert Sō Percussion is held in Vilnius with one of the world's most famous percussion music groups. This New York collective is already familiar to the Vilnius audience - the group performed at the "Gaida" festival seven years ago and was a huge success then. Recently, Sō Percussion has performed in venues such as New York's Carnegie Hall, Washington's Kennedy Center, Hamburg's Elbe Philharmonic, Barcelona's Palau de la Musica Catalana, and has also played at London's Barbican Center, Big Ears, Long Play festivals ”, Sound Unbound, Bang on a Can Marathon and more. Critics claim that Sō Percussion redefined the 21st century. music through "an exhilarating combination of precision and anarchy, austerity and madness" (The New Yorker) and revived a vibrant percussion repertoire. The group has collaborated with composers such as David Lang, Julia Wolfe, Steve Reich, Paul Lansky, Dan Trueman and many others.
US music celebrities Caroline Shaw concert in Vilnius with the famous New York percussion group "Sō Percussion" - December 5. LVSO concert hall. Tickets are distributed by Kakava.lt. The festival is financed by the Lithuanian Council of Culture, Vilnius city municipality.
