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

Vulture Prince- Mohabbat

Arooj Aftab

Label: New Amsterdam

34. Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

FOR JIMMY, WES, & OLIVER 

Christian McBride Big Band

Label: MACK AVENUE RECORDS

Jackets XL

Yellowjackets + WDR Big Band

Label: MACK AVENUE RECORDS

55. Best Global Music Performance

Vulture Prince- Mohabbat

Arooj Aftab

Label: New Amsterdam

74. Best Immersive Audio Album

Stille Grender

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)

Bolstad: Tomba Sonora

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

Archetypes

Jonathan Lackey, Bill Maylone & Dan Nichols, engineers; Bill Maylone, mastering engineer (Sérgio Assad, Clarice Assad & Third Coast Percussion)

Label: CEDILLE RECORDS

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

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

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

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

Bartók: Bluebeard’s Castle

Susanna Mälkki, conductor; Mika Kares & Szilvia Vörös; Robert Suff, producer (Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra)

Label: BIS

79. Best Choral Performance

Rising w/The Crossing

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

The Singing Guitar

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

Adams, John Luther: Lines Made By Walking

JACK Quartet

Label: Cold Blue Music

Archetypes

Sérgio Assad, Clarice Assad & Third Coast Percussion

Label: CEDILLE RECORDS

81. Best Classical Instrumental Solo

Alone Together

Jennifer Koh

Label: CEDILLE RECORDS

Mak Bach

Mak Grgić

Label: MicroFest Records

82. Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

Confessions

Laura Strickling; Joy Schreier, pianist

Label: YARLUNG RECORDS

Dreams Of A New Day – Songs By Black Composers

Will Liverman; Paul Sánchez, pianist

Label: CEDILLE RECORDS

Unexpected Shadows

Jamie Barton; Jake Heggie, pianist (Matt Haimovitz)

Label: PENTATONE MUSIC

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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