ENGINEERS, PRODUCERS, ARTISTS, AND COMPOSERS FROM NAXOS MUSIC GROUP DISTRIBUTION FAMILY RECOGNIZED WITH 25 GRAMMY® NOMINATIONS
Franklin, TN 11-23-21- The Recording Academy has announced the 64th Annual GRAMMY® nominees. Engineers, composers, artists, and producers from Naxos, 2L, BIS, Cappella Romana, Cedille Records, Cold Blue Music, Delos, Mack Avenue Records, MicroFest Records, Navona Records, New Amsterdam Records, Pentatone, Reference Recordings, Seattle Symphony Media, and Yarlung Records have earned 25 nominations. The awards ceremony will be airing live on Monday, January 31st, 2022, on CBS.
Naxos of America artists were recognized in 11 categories including: Best New Artist, Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album, Best Global Music Performance, Best Engineered Album, Classical, Best Orchestral Performance, Best Opera Recording, Best Choral Performance, Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance, Best Classical Instrumental Solo, Best Classical Solo Vocal Album, Best Classical Compendium, Best Immersive Audio Album, Best Immersive Audio Album (63rd Annual GRAMMYS®), and Best Contemporary Classical Composition.
Naxos Music Group artists have been recognized with one nomination. John Adam’s My Father Knew Charles Ives-Harmonielehre, conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero and performed by the Nashville Symphonic Orchestra, has been nominated for Best Orchestral Performance.
For a fourth year in a row, all the nominees in the Producer of the Year – Classical category have a body of work that includes recordings from the Naxos of America distributed-label family.
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4. Best New Artist
34. Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
55. Best Global Music Performance
74. Best Immersive Audio Album
Morten Lindberg, immersive mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, immersive mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, immersive producer (Anne Karin Sundal-Ask & Det Norske Jentekor)
Label: 2L
*72. Best Immersive Audio Album (63RD GRAMMY)
Morten Lindberg, immersive mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, immersive mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, immersive producer (Stemmeklang)
Label: 2L
Soundtrack Of The American Soldier
Leslie Ann Jones, immersive mix engineer; Michael Romanowski, immersive mastering engineer; Dan Merceruio, immersive producer (Jim R. Keene & The United States Army Field Band)
Label: Navona Records
Soundtrack Of The American Soldier
Leslie Ann Jones, immersive mix engineer; Michael Romanowski, immersive mastering engineer; Dan Merceruio, immersive producer (Jim R. Keene & The United States Army Field Band)
Label: NAVONA
75. Best Engineered Album, Classical
Jonathan Lackey, Bill Maylone & Dan Nichols, engineers; Bill Maylone, mastering engineer (Sérgio Assad, Clarice Assad & Third Coast Percussion)
Label: CEDILLE RECORDS
Mark Donahue, engineer; Mark Donahue, mastering engineer (Manfred Honeck, Mendelssohn Choir Of Pittsburgh & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
Label: REFERENCE RECORDINGS
77. Best Orchestral Performance
Adams: My Father Knew Charles Ives; Harmonielehre
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor (Nashville Symphony Orchestra)
Label: NAXOS AMERICAN CLASSICS
Manfred Honeck, conductor (Mendelssohn Choir Of Pittsburgh & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
Label: REFERENCE RECORDINGS
Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra; Scriabin: The Poem Of Ecstasy
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor (Seattle Symphony Orchestra)
Label: Seattle Symphony Media
78. Best Opera Recording
Susanna Mälkki, conductor; Mika Kares & Szilvia Vörös; Robert Suff, producer (Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra)
Label: BIS
79. Best Choral Performance
Donald Nally, conductor (International Contemporary Ensemble & Quicksilver; The Crossing)
Label: NEW FOCUS RECORDINGS
Sheehan: Liturgy Of Saint John Chrysostom
Benedict Sheehan, conductor (Michael Hawes, Timothy Parsons & Jason Thoms; The Saint Tikhon Choir)
Label: Cappella Romana
Craig Hella Johnson, conductor (Estelí Gomez; Austin Guitar Quartet, Douglas Harvey, Los Angeles Guitar Quartet & Texas Guitar Quartet; Conspirare)
Label: DELOS
80. Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
81. Best Classical Instrumental Solo
82. Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
Dreams Of A New Day – Songs By Black Composers
Will Liverman; Paul Sánchez, pianist
Label: CEDILLE RECORDS
84. Best Contemporary Classical Composition
Assad, Clarice & Sérgio, Connors, Dillon, Martin & Skidmore: Archetypes
Clarice Assad, Sérgio Assad, Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin & David Skidmore, composers (Sérgio Assad, Clarice Assad & Third Coast Percussion)
Label: CEDILLE RECORDS
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