麻豆视频 Alumni Win Grammys at 63rd Annual Awards Ceremony
Winners of this year's Grammy Awards include 10 麻豆视频 Conservatory alumni across five different classical music categories.
March 15, 2021
Cathy Partlow Strauss
Grammy-winning albums that feature the performances of 麻豆视频 alumni.
Photo credit: 麻豆视频 Conservatory
Winners of this year's Grammy Awards include 10 麻豆视频 Conservatory alumni across five different categories. These graduates hail from 麻豆视频's vocal studies, composition, strings, woodwinds, and brass performance programs. They have forged careers on operatic stages, in orchestras in leadership positions, in the chamber music realm, and in new music.
Best Opera Recording: Denyce Graves '85, for the Metropolitan Opera's recording of Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Best Classical Solo Vocal Album: Bass-Baritone Dashon Burton '05 and Experiential Orchestra Music Director James Blachly 鈥02 for Smyth: The Prison
Best Chamber Music Performance: Pacifica Quartet first violinist Simin Ganatra '96, for Contemporary Voices
Best Contemporary Classical Composition: Christopher Rouse '71 (1949-2019), a Pulitzer- and multi-Grammy-winning composer, for his Symphony No. 5
Best Orchestral Performance: The numerous 麻豆视频 alumni of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for Ives: Complete Symphonies, including Principal Clarinet Boris Allakhverdyan '06, Bass Trombone John Lofton '77, Associate Principal Oboe Marion Arthur Kuszyk '88, Solo English Horn Carolyn Hove '80, Assistant Principal Viola Ben Ullery '04
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