ABOUT THIS PERFORMANCE
A visionary collaboration that has already yielded two Grammy Awards re-unites on the Chamber Music Detroit stage to launch our groundbreaking 80th Season. This close musical partnership between one of the world’s most exciting string quartets and an extraordinarily creative composer – the youngest ever to receive a Pulitzer Prize – offers music that is fresh, moving, and exquisitely beautiful.
PROGRAM
The Music of Caroline Shaw
Blueprint
Plan and elevation
Three Essays
The Evergreen
Cant voi l’aube
And So
Other Song
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Attacca Quartet
Amy Schroeder, violin
Domenic Salerni, violin
Nathan Schram, viola
Andrew Yee, cello
Described by The New York Times as “exuberant, funky and more exactingly nuanced”, the Attacca Quartet is recognized and acclaimed as one of the most versatile and outstanding ensembles of the moment, and a passionate advocate of contemporary repertoire. Touring extensively across the United States and abroad, the Quartet’s recent highlights include Lincoln Center’s White Lights Festival, the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, Chamber Music Detroit, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the Banff Festival in Canada and the Ojai Festival in California. Abroad they have toured across Japan, South America and Europe.
In 2021, the Quartet announced their exclusive signing to SONY Classical, and in 2022, Nonesuch Records released the quartet’s second album with composer and vocalist Caroline Shaw, Evergreen, a follow up to their 2020 album, Orange, which was featured in a number of “Best Albums” lists, including NPR, The New York Times, BBC Music Magazine and Opus Klassik. Both recordings received Grammy Awards for Best Chamber Music Performance.
“Exuberant, funky, and…exactingly nuanced.”
Caroline Shaw, composer/musician
A native of Greenville, North Carolina, composer and vocalist Caroline Shaw moves among roles, genres, and mediums, trying, in her words, “to imagine a world of sound that has never been heard before but has always existed”. She is the recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music, several Grammy awards, an honorary doctorate from Yale, and a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. She has written over 100 works and worked with a range of artists including Rosalía, Renée Fleming, and Yo-Yo Ma, and she has contributed music to films and TV series including Fleishman is in Trouble, Bombshell, Yellowjackets, Maid, Dark, and Beyonce’s Homecoming.
