NEWS BRIEF: Graduate student Shaw wins Grammy Award with ensemble

By the Office of Communications on Jan. 27, 2014, 12:24 p.m.

Caroline Shaw, a graduate student in composition in the Department of Music, is a member of the New York-based vocal ensemble A Roomful of Teeth, which won a 2014 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance. One of Shaw's compositions, "Partita for 8 Voices," which she wrote for the ensemble, won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for music. A Roomful of Teeth performed during the pre-telecast part of the 56th annual Grammy Awards ceremony on Jan. 26 in Los Angeles.

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