Percussionist

Caroline Shaw is a musician who moves among roles, genres, and mediums, trying to imagine a world of sound that has never been heard before but has always existed. She works often in collaboration with others, as producer, composer, violinist, and vocalist. Caroline is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Music, several Grammys, and an honorary doctorate from Yale. Her favorite color is yellow, and her favorite smell is rosemary.

For 25 years, Grammy-winning percussion quartet Sō Percussion has redefined chamber music for the 21st century through an “exhilarating blend of precision and anarchy, rigor and bedlam” (The New Yorker). The group is celebrated by audiences and presenters for a dazzling range of work: for live performances imbued with “telepathic powers of communication” (New York Times); for an extravagant array of collaborations; and for creating opportunities and platforms for music and artists that explore the immense possibility of art in our time.

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Sō Percussion with Caroline Shaw

Albuquerque Academy

Join composer-instigator Jad Abumrad and virtuoso trio Ji Hye Jung and Sō Percussion’s Eric Cha-Beach and Jason Treuting in this playful evening highlighting maximum efficiency with minimal waste. They will be joined by New York Times food writer Melissa Clark, and induction chef extraordinaire Rachelle Boucher of the Building Decarbonization Coalition (BDC), with NS+ curator Elena Park.

NationalSawdust+ presents Collision Theory: Featuring Jad Abumrad, percussionists Ji Hye Jung, Eric Cha-Beach, and Jason Treuting, with foodies Rachelle Boucher and Melissa Clark

National Sawdust

Enjoy the vibrant collaboration of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw and the innovative Sō Percussion in an electrifying program blending voice and percussion quartet as they share the music from their newest album Rectangles and Circumstance. Co-written by Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion, the genre-blending songs use verses from nineteenth-century poems by Christina Rosetti, Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, and William Blake. Chamber music meets singer-songwriter storytelling in this extraordinary performance showcasing vital, expressive, and imaginative music-making.

Percussionist

Eric Cha-Beach

Events

Past events

Jun 21, 2026

Sō Percussion with Caroline Shaw · Chamber Music Albuquerque

Apr 25, 2025

NationalSawdust+ presents Collision Theory: Featuring Jad Abumrad, percussionists Ji Hye Jung, Eric Cha-Beach, and Jason Treuting, with foodies Rachelle Boucher and Melissa Clark · National Sawdust

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