Shepherd School alumna Caroline Shaw receives Grammy nomination

American musician and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw ’04 has been nominated for a 2014 Grammy Award in the “Best Contemporary Classical Composition” category.

CAROLINE SHAW

Her nominated work, “Partita for Eight Voices,” received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in music.

Shaw performs violin with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble; she also is a vocalist with the ensemble Roomful of Teeth. She received a Bachelor of Music degree in 2004 from Rice, where she was a student of Kathleen Winkler, the Dorothy Richard Starling Chair of Classical Violin at the Shepherd School of Music. She also received a master’s degree from Yale University in 2007 and a Ph.D. in composition from Princeton in 2011.

The winners will be announced at the 56th annual Grammy Awards ceremony Jan. 26. For more information on nominees, visit www.grammy.com.