Alexander Paley Music Festival
· Festival Musicians: Clyde Thomas Shaw ·
Founding member of the Audubon Quartet, Clyde Shaw attended the Oberlin Conservatory. He studied cello with Aldo Parisot and Richard Kapuscinski, and chamber music with Felix Galimir, Michael Tree, Arnold Steinhardt, Sidney Griller, Robert Mann, Eugene Lener, Zoltan Sekeley, and members of the Lenox Quartet.
Born in Orlando, Fla., Mr. Shaw served as assistant principal cellist with the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra and was cellist of the Faculty Consort at Stetson University before forming the Audubon Quartet in 1974. During the 35-year history of the Audubon Quartet, Shaw has appeared worldwide as the cellist of the Audubon Quartet and has recorded for the RCA, Telarc, Centaur, CRI and Opus One recording companies.
His appearances include featured performances on CBS Sunday Morning, Recitals at Alice Tully, Avery Fischer, Carnegie and Town Halls in New York, Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, Curtis Hall in Philadelphia, Symphony Hall in Chicago, Wilshire Ebel Theater in Los Angeles, Wigmore Hall in London, Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome, Red Tower Theater in Beijing, Bavarian Radio in Munich, Swiss TV in Geneva, Tel Aviv Museum in Israel, several tours abroad for the United States Department of State, and performance at the White House. In addition to Mr. Shaw’s 37-year tenure with the Audubon Quartet, he serves as professor of cello and chamber music at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia.