Congratulations to Curtis's 2024 GRAMMY Nominees!
The nominees for the 2024 GRAMMY Awards were announced on Friday, November 10. Among those honored are several celebrated faculty and alumni of Curtis who are in the front rank of musicians worldwide.
Under the category of Best Orchestral Performance, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, led by conductor Karina Canellakis (Violin ’04), was nominated for Bartók: Concerto For Orchestra.
Curtis Mentor Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin received a nomination for Price: Symphony No. 4; Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony with The Philadelphia Orchestra. Maestro Nézet-Séguin was also nominated under the Best Opera Recording category with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus for Blanchard’s Champion, featuring Eric Owens (Opera ’95), director of vocal studies and Curtis Opera Theatre.
In the same category, baritone Jarrett Ott (Opera ’04) earned a nomination as part of the the cast of John Corigliano’s The Lord of Cries, with Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Odyssey Opera, and Gil Rose. The opera tells the story of Euripides’s The Bacchae with the characters of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
William R. and Hyunah Yu Brody Distinguished Chair Anthony McGill (Clarinet ’00) is nominated alongside the Pacifica Quartet, of which violist Mark Holloway (’05) is a member, for their collaborative album American Stories for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance. The Catalyst Quartet, featuring alumna Abi Fayette (Violin ’17, CAF ’20), was nominated in the same category for Uncovered, Vol. 3: Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, William Grant Still & George Walker. The first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, Mr. Walker attended Curtis from 1941 to 1945.
Alumna Yuja Wang (Piano ’08) and conductor Teddy Abrams (’08) of the Louisville Orchestra were nominated for Best Classical Instrumental Solo album for The American Project, featuring the world premiere of Abrams’s Piano Concerto and Tilson Thomas’s You Come Here Often?.
The work of the late composer, pianist, vocalist, and Curtis alumnus Julius Eastman (Piano ’63) was featured on Wild Up’s album, Julius Eastman, Vol. 3: If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich? with conductor Christopher Rountree. The Los Angeles-based ensemble, a modern musical collective featuring Curtis alumna JiJi (Guitar ’15), was also nominated last year for its second entry of a seven-volume anthology celebrating the music and legacy of Mr. Eastman.
In the same category, Curtis faculty members Imani Winds were nominated, among other groups, for the album Passion for Bach and Coltrane, produced by Mark Dover, clarinetist for the acclaimed wind quintet.
Curtis faculty member and double bassist Edgar Meyer‘s piece “Motion” from the album As We Speak with Béla Fleck, and Zakir Hussain, featuring Rakesh Chaurasia, was nominated for Best Instrumental Composition.
A number of Curtis alumni are also members of the ensembles nominated across many categories.
Congratulations to all of the nominees!
The 66th GRAMMY Awards will take place on Sunday, February 4, 2024. View the Premiere Ceremony at live.grammy.com.
