Attacca Quartet & Caroline Shaw in Berkeley

Attacca Quartet is an American string quartet formed at the Juilliard School in 2003. The ensemble performs classical repertoire and contemporary music; its recording of Caroline Shaw’s Orange won the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance, while Real Life brought the quartet together with electronic artists including TOKiMONSTA and Squarepusher. Attacca Quartet made its professional debut in 2007 at Weill Recital Hall in New York. The ensemble later presented a 2023 concert for NPR’s Tiny Desk.

Caroline Shaw is an American composer, violinist and singer, born in Greenville, North Carolina, in 1982. She writes contemporary classical music and is a member of the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth. She is best known for Partita for 8 Voices, which received the Pulitzer Prize for Music; her catalogue also includes the Attacca Quartet album Orange and the vocal work Narrow Sea. In 2015, Shaw joined Kanye West for performances of 808s & Heartbreak at the Hollywood Bowl. She later developed a concert collaboration with Sō Percussion around Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part, presenting the project at the Barbican in London.