Attacca Quartet Caroline ShawViolin and Vocals
Sunday, April 12, 2026 7:00pm
Taube Atrium TheaterVenue Information
$60
About This Performance
The third in a series of three concerts featuring the two-time Grammy® Award-winning Attacca Quartet, a true quartet for modern times. Gliding through traditional classical repertoire to electronica, video game music, and a who’s who of contemporary collaborations, they are one of the world’s most innovative and respected ensembles.
Composer and multi-faceted performer Caroline Shaw became the youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music at age 30. She is widely acclaimed for highly polished and inventive works that move among roles, genres, and mediums, imagining a world that has not been heard before but has always existed. She and the Attacca explore a wide-ranging program that includes some of her own works.
Program
SHAW: Entr’acte, The Evergreen; IV. Root and Three Essays; Second Essay (Echo)
PAUL WIANCKO: Benkei’s Standing Death; “Part I: The Thousandth Encounter”
RADIOHEAD (arr. Nathan Schram): 2+2=5
RAVEL: String Quartet in F Major: I. Allegro moderato—très doux
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131
Artist Information
Performer Biographies
Two-time Grammy-award winning Attacca Quartet, as described by The Nation, “lives in the present aesthetically, without rejecting the virtues of the musical past”, and are recognized and acclaimed as one of the most versatile and outstanding ensembles of the moment—a true quartet for modern times. Gliding through traditional classical repertoire to electronica, video game music, and contemporary collaborations, they are one of the world’s most innovative and respected ensembles.
Caroline Shaw is a musician who moves among roles, genres, and mediums, trying to imagine a world of sound that has never been heard before but has always existed. She works often in collaboration with others, as producer, composer, violinist, and vocalist. Shaw is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Music, an honorary doctorate from Yale, four Grammys, and a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. She has written and produced for iconic artists and ensembles across the musical spectrum.