Peabody alumni and faculty are well represented in the 2025 Grammy nominations. The 67th Annual Grammy Awards take place February 2, 2025, at the Crytpo.Com Arena in Los Angeles.
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra led by Director of Graduate Conducting Marin Alsop is nominated for Best Orchestral Performance for their performance of “Adams: City Noir, Fearful Symmetries and Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance.”
Composition Professor Kevin Puts’ The Hours led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and performed by Joyce DiDonato, Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and the Metropolitan Opera Chorus is nominated for Best Opera Recording.
In the category of Best Choral Performance an album of Jake Runestad’s (MM ’11, Composition) music “A Dream So Bright — Choral Music of Jake Runestad” performed by True Concord Orchestra and Voices including Ross Tamaccio (MM ’18, Voice) and Julie Bosworth (MM ’14, Early Music Voice) and led by Eric Holtan has been nominated. Baroque orchestra Apollo’s Fire, featuring concertmaster Alan Choo (MM ’14, Violin, Early Music; GPD ’16, Violin), was also nominated in the Best Choral Performance category for its Handel: Israel in Egypt (Avie) recording, which also features Yael Senamaud-Cohen (GPD ’95, Viola) and countertenor Daniel Moody (BM ’14, Voice). Handel: Israel in Egypt was also nominated in the Producer of the Year, Classical category for veteran producer Erica Brenner, whose nomination also includes Apollo’s Fire’s Biber: Mystery Sonatas (Avie) featuring soloist Choo, as well as Brian Kay (BM ’13, MM ’15, Lute) and William Simms (MM ’91, Guitar).
The nominees for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance include “Cerrone: Beaufort Scales” performed by Director of Choral Studies Beth Willer and Lorelei Ensemble, “Home” performed by Miró Quartet including works by Composition Professor Kevin Puts, and “Rectangles and Circumstance” performed by Sō Percussion including Eric Cha-Beach (BM ’04, GPD ’05, Percussion).
The Wiz 2024 Broadway Cast Recording produced by Lawrence Manchester (BM ’94, Percussion; BM ’95, Recording Arts and Sciences) with Paul Byssainthe Jr. (GPD ’19, Organ) as Conductor and Keyboard is nominated for Best Musical Theater Album as well as The Outsiders with Mark G. Meadows (BM ’11, GPD ’13, Jazz Piano; KSAS BA ’11, Psychology) as Keyboard 2 and Associate Conductor and Manchester as a producer.
Andrea Casarrubios’ (BM ’11, Cello) Seven For Solo Cello is nominated for Best Contemporary Classical Composition.
Paul Avgerinos (BM ’81, Double Bass) was an engineer on “Last Sundays in Plains: A Centennial Celebration” which is nominated for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording.