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Carrie Henneman Shaw joined the Voice Program artist residence in Autumn 2020. A singer, she engages in a wide variety of musical projects, focusing on early contemporary music. In 2023, she was awarded the Royalty Research Fund grant for research on vocal timbre, collaborating with composer Mauricio Pauly and pianist Mabel Kwan. In 2024, she received the Donald E. Petersen Endowed Faculty Fellowship for Excellence. Her notable works include an upcoming solo recording with Naxos Records featuring early 18th-century French songs and creating a live-music-for-dance project with James Sewell Ballet. She also collaborates with the recording band Deerhoof. Carrie is a two-time winner of the McKnight Fellowship for Performing Musicians and is a member of groups focused on music by living composers, including Ensemble Dal Niente, a mixed chamber collective, and the treble voice quartet Quince Ensemble. She appears on numerous recordings ranging from medieval sacred music to video-game soundtracks, and she maintains a full university studio while participating in educational residencies with composers and performers across the country, including UC-Berkeley, Stanford, New York University, and the University of Chicago.
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