As part of Platoon Presents at Kings Place, Pulitzer Prize‑winner Caroline Shaw and multi‑GRAMMY Award‑winning cellist Andrew Yee share an intimate and powerful evening of music including music written by the two of them as well as re-contextualised works by other composers. From Shaw’s iconic Sarabande to Messiaen’s transcendent Louange à l’éternité de Jesu this is a rare chance to experience two of today’s most original artists in powerful musical conversation.

Long‑time friends and collaborators, Caroline Shaw and Andrew Yee share a musical language rooted in curiosity, playfulness and emotional clarity, moving effortlessly between classical writing, traditional music and reimagined sound worlds.

From original works by both composers to fresh new interpretations of existing pieces, from Shenandoah to Louange à l’Éternité de Jésus from Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, you’ll experience two artists working at the height of their creative powers.

Together, Shaw and Yee craft an evening of connection, experimentation and deep musical friendship, a rare chance to hear two visionary artists in close dialogue.

This event will last for approximately 75 minutes without an interval.

About Caroline Shaw

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 often collaborates as a producer, composer, violinist, and vocalist. Shaw is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Music, an honorary doctorate from Yale, four Grammys, and a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. She has written and produced for iconic artists and ensembles across the musical spectrum, including Rosalía, Renée Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma, Tiler Peck, Nas, Kanye West, the LA Phil, the NY Phil, and others.

Recent TV/film/stage scoring projects include Leonardo Da Vinci (Ken Burns/PBS), Julie Keeps Quiet (Leonardo Van Dijl), Fleishman is in Trouble (FX/Hulu), The Sky Is Everywhere (Josephine Decker/A24), vocal work with Rosalía (MOTOMAMI), The Crucible (Lyndsey Turner/National Theatre), Partita (Justin Peck/NYC Ballet), Moby Dick (Wu Tsang), and LIFE (Gandini Juggling/Merce Cunningham Trust). Current touring projects include shows with Sō Percussion, Ringdown, Attacca Quartet, Roomful of Teeth, Graveyards & Gardens, Gabriel Kahane, and Kamus Quartet. Her favorite color is yellow, and her favorite smell is rosemary.

About Andrew Yee

Multi-GRAMMY award-winning cellist and composer Andrew Yee (She/They) loves making art. She is a founding member of the Attacca Quartet, whose recordings of the string quartets of Caroline Shaw’s ‘Orange’ and ‘Evergreen’ have each won GRAMMY awards. She can also be heard on the score of Alfonso Cuaron’s tv thriller series Disclaimer scored by Finneas O’Connell for Apple TV+ and on Billie Eilish’s album Hit Me Hard and Soft.

As a composer, she has written for film and television, including Wu Tsang’s Moby Dick, Love, Jamie and the BBC show We Might Regret This. She has had pieces premiered by the Zurich Chamber Ensemble, the New York Philharmonic and Caroline Shaw. Her new version of the opera Carmen was premiered in Zurich in 2024 at the Schauspielhaus Zürich. She recently premiered a new work for orchestra, choir and trans soloists called Trans Requiem at Trinity Church in New York City featuring the Trinity Choir, Trinity Youth Chorus and NOVUS orchestra. She also created a solo show titled Halfie drawing on her experience as a bi-racial trans woman and featured on WQXR’s Artist Propulsion Lab in 2022.

Her son Otis is the love of her life.

She plays on an 1884 Eugenio Degani cello on loan from the Five Partners Foundation.