John Shakow

John Shakow has been a member of the Board since 2008, and is currently Chair of the Development Committee.  John is the father of excellent twin college-age kids, a native Washingtonian, and an enthusiastic but mediocre tennis player. 

He is a partner at King & Spalding (where he has been his entire legal career), specializing in pharmaceutical pricing matters. 

While John has not been a singer for many, many years, at ten years old in 1979 he joined what was to become The Washington Chorus to sing Berlioz’s Te Deum in a performance at Catholic University. That experience set him on a path of great affection for choral music in general, and for TWC in particular.  He is very grateful for his association with such an important and inspiring Washington cultural institution.         

Emma Moores