Attacca
Quartet +
Caroline Shaw

The Attacca Quartet was created by violinist Amy Schroeder and cellist Andrew Yee in 2003 when both were students of the Juilliard School in New York. In 2024, the quartet also includes violinist Domenic Salerni and viola player Nathan Schram. 

Their repertoire spans from classical to contemporary and they were signed by the SONY Classical record label in 2021. The quartet has worked together with such leading electronic artists as TOKiMONSTA, Deladus and Squarepusher and has performed everything from renaissance music to the work of modern minimalists like Philip Glass and Arvo Pärt. 

They have also performed at several at the world’s most renowned stages and festivals, with such highlights as the Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Sala Sao Paolo, SFJazz, Théâtre de la Ville i Paris, Palau de la Musica, Concertgebouw Bruges, De Doelen, Kings Place and String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam. 

In 2020 , the Attacca Quartet won the Grammy award for Best Chamber Music for its collaboration with Caroline Shaw on the album Orange. Three years later, they again won the same award for another Shaw recording, Evergreen. 

Caroline Shaw (born in 1982) is a New York-based musician — vocalist, violinist, composer and producer — who performs in solo and joint projects. In 2013, she was the youngest winner ever of the Pulitzer Prize for Music, awarded for Partita for 8 Voices, written by the Grammy-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, of which she is also a member. 

Shaw has been commissioned to write for Renée Fleming with Inon Barnatan, Dawn Upshaw with Sō Percussion and Gil Kalish, Orchestra of St. Luke's med John Lithgow, Dover Quartet, Calidore Quartet, Brooklyn Rider and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. 

Shaw caught the attention of the Attacca Quartet “because of her prolific and amazing string quartet output. Her sense of wonder and joy pours over her works, and we are so delighted to share them with the world.”