Alumni receive Grammy nominations

Several Yale School of Music alumni were among the musicians nominated for Grammy Awards. The nominations for the 2016 awards were announced Monday, December 7.

In the category of Best Orchestral Performance, conductor Darrell Ang ’08MM was nominated for his recording of Zhou Long and Chen Yi's Symphony Humen 1839. The recording, which featured the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, was released on the Naxos label.

Craig Hella Johnson ’90MMA ’95DMA and Conspirare were nominated in the Best Choral Performance category for Pablo Neruda: The Poet Sings, recorded for the Harmonia Mundi label.

Brad Wells ’05DMA and the vocal octet Roomful Of Teeth were nominated in the Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance category for Render, released on New Amsterdam Records. There are numerous YSM alumni among the members of Roomful of Teeth.

Pianists Genevieve Feiwen Lee '89MM '90 MMA '94DMA and Nadia Shpachenko were nominated in the Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance category for their recording of Tom Flaherty’s Airdancing for toy piano, piano, and electronics. This piece appears on the Reference Recordings CD Woman at the New Piano, which was also nominated in the Best Classical Compendium and Producer of the Year, Classical categories. 

Two YSM composers received nominations in the Best Contemporary Classical Composition category. Andrew Norman ’09AD was nominated for Play, recorded with Gil Rose and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project on BMOP/Sound. Julia Wolfe ’86MM was nominated for Anthracite Fields, recorded for Cantaloupe Music by Julian Wachner with the Choir Of Trinity Wall Street and the Bang On A Can All-Stars. 

This post was updated December 15, 2015.