Is there nothing Caroline Shaw can’t do? A founding member of the Grammy Award-winning vocal octet Roomful of Teeth, Shaw is enrolled in the PhD program in composition at Princeton University. In 2013, at the age of 30, she became the youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music for her composition “Partita for 8 Voices,” which she also recorded.

Now Shaw makes her debut as a solo violinist in her most recent work, which receives its first performances in a series of concerts, the next of which will take place at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium on Sunday at 4 p.m.

“Lo,” for violin and orchestra, is a co-commission of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra and the North Carolina and Indianapolis Symphonies, in support of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s MusicNOW Festival.

PSO Music Director Rossen Milanov will conduct the concert, which will also feature the tone poem “Pohjola’s Daughter,” by Jean Sibelius, and the Symphony No. 1, by Johannes Brahms. Shaw will join Milanov for the pre-concert talk at 3.

On Saturday at 12 p.m., Shaw will also take part in a Pi Day celebration at Nassau Inn, 10 Palmer Square, where a pop-up masterclass will be held for violinists ages 3-6. At 4 p.m., she will discuss her creative process with Milanov, as part of a PSO “Behind the Music” event, at the Arts Council of Princeton’s Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, 102 Witherspoon St.

Registration for the masterclass and tickets for “Behind the Music” – both free and open to the public – are available through the PSO website, princetonsymphony.org.

Learn more about Caroline Shaw and the Princeton Symphony Orchestra in my article in today’s Trenton Times:

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2016/03/caroline_shaw_pso_performing_i.html