Garsioji JAV dainininkė ir kūrėja CAROLINE SHAW kartu su įžymia Niujorko mušamųjų grupe SO PERCUSSION

Caroline Shaw, the internationally acclaimed American singer and composer, is coming to Lithuania for the first time. December 5 of this year. her exclusive concert with the famous New York percussion group Sō Percussion is being held in the newly equipped LVSO concert hall.

Caroline Shaw is a world-renowned vocal music 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 various roles, genres and media, striving 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, etc.

Talented and prolific creator, over the past decade she has written over 100 pieces for world-renowned artists - Anne Sofie von Otter, Davóne for Tines, Yo Yo Ma, Renée Fleming, Dawn Upshaw, Ariadne Greif, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestras, Aizuri, Dover, Calidore, Miro, Brooklyn Rider Quartets, The Crossing Vocal Ensemble, for ensembles "I Giardini", "Ars Nova Copenhagen", Brooklyn Youth Choir. She also contributed to the creation of albums by artists Rosalía, Woodkid and Nas.

At this concert in Vilnius, Caroline Shaw's songs from her and Sō Percussion's albums "Rectangles and Circumstance (2024) and Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part (2021). 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 group "ABBA", etc. Meanwhile, the songs on the album "Rectangles and Circumstance" were inspired by the 19th 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 25 together with violin virtuoso and conductor Hugo Ticciati will be performed by the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra.

Caroline Shaw is holding a concert in Vilnius with one of the world's most famous percussion music groups, Sō Percussion. 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, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Hamburg's Elbe Philharmonic, Barcelona's Palau de la Musica Catalana, and has also played at London's Barbican Center, Big Ears festivals, Long Play, 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.

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