Violinist Caroline Shaw is a recent immigrant to New York, where her professional activities include chamber music, contemporary music collaboration, early music performance practice, and improvisation and sound design for ballet and modern dance. Caroline received a BM cum laude from Rice, where she studied violin with Kathleen Winkler and was a Goliard Scholar. Following college, she traveled in France, England and Italy as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow. She received an MM from Yale in 2007 and is currently a visiting fellow in the Yale Baroque Ensemble under the direction of Robert Mealy. More info found at carolineshaw.com.