Discipline: Music Composition

Shaina Taub

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell fellowships: 2012

Shaina Taub's folk opera, The Daughters, was a Richard Rodgers Award Finalist. Her concert work includes a Lincoln Center solo debut in the acclaimed American Songbook series, as well as residencies at Ars Nova and Rockwood Music Hall. Taub has independently released two EPs and a full-length album, Visitors, and played a year-long residency of monthly shows at the Public Theater's Joe's Pub in 2017.

Studios

Veltin

Shaina Taub worked in the Veltin studio.

Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…

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