Camden Shaw is the cellist of the Dover Quartet, called “one of the greatest quartets of the last 100 years” by BBC Music Magazine, and has played with the ensemble from its inception in 2008.  Since then, Shaw has performed over 1,500 concerts with the ensemble, and left a profound impact on the landscape of chamber music in the United States and around the world. Shaw also maintains a passionate career in education, teaching chamber music at his alma mater the Curtis Institute of Music, and producing solo cello teaching resources for the online learning platform Tonebase.com. He has also appeared as a guest teacher at some of the world’s top music schools, and had his teaching ideas published in STRAD magazine as part of their “masterclass” series.

The Dover Quartet is a regular presence at the world’s top venues, from Carnegie hall to the Berlin Philharmonie- but between tours, Shaw lives part time in Central Washington state. His solo cello project “Darkness, Light, and the in between”, first performed in Texas in 2025, explores the profound range of the cello as a solo instrument and also involves the audience in the music making in a totally novel way.

Shaw’s main teachers were Toby Saks, Peter Wiley, and Steven Isserlis. He plays a 2024 Sam Zygmuntowicz cello and a c. 1820 bow by Thomas Tubbs.