Chamber program in tune with prodigy Shaw – JH News&Guide

Four weeks into its 64th season, the Grand Teton Music Festival has presented thrilling and thought-provoking works by living composers, including the world premieres of Lynne Plowman’s “Life Cycles” and Kevin Puts’ “Contact.”

This week’s chamber music program will start with a work by another contemporary musician: Caroline Shaw.

Shaw’s “Thousandth Orange” (2018) will lead into a trio of pieces by Gabriel Fauré, Samuel Barber and Maurice Ravel, each of whom fascinated and sometimes befuddled musicians and audiences in their day.

Also a violinist and vocalist, Shaw, who will turn 43 on Aug. 1, became the youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2013 for her “Partita for Eight Voices” written for the experimental vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, of which she is a long-standing member. She won Grammy awards in 2022 and 2025, has written for television (the FX/Hulu comedy-drama “Fleishman Is in Trouble”), film, theater and dance, as well as for Yo-Yo Ma, Renée Fleming, Dawn Upshaw, the Dover Quartet and Brooklyn Rider.

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