Congratulations to Curtis’ 2025 Grammy Winners!
The 2025 Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony was held on Sunday, February 3, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. Among those honored are celebrated faculty and alumni of Curtis who are in the front rank of musicians worldwide. Karen Slack (Opera ’02), faculty member Michelle Cann (Piano ’13, ArtistYear ’15), and Head of Conducting Yannick Nézet-Séguin won awards. Ms. Slack and Ms. Cann were present to accept their awards and made acceptance speeches.
Internationally acclaimed soprano Karen Slack and Eleanor Sokoloff Chair in Piano Studies Michelle Cann, “one of the most visible components of the music of Florence Price” (Chicago Tribune), won the Best Classical Solo Vocal Album award for Beyond the Years – Unpublished Songs of Florence Price. The two artists were recently featured on CBS News Philadelphia.
Maestro Nézet-Séguin won Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media for the film Maestro, about Curtis alumnus Leonard Bernstein (Conducting ’41), and Curtis’ 2024 composer-in-residence, Gabriela Ortiz, won two Grammys: Best Classical Compendium and Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Revolución Diamantina.
Congratulations to all of this year’s nominees and winners!
