YSM faculty, alums win GRAMMY Awards
Please join us in congratulating members of the Yale School of Music community who won a 2023 GRAMMY on Feb. 5 and those who were nominated back in November.
GRAMMY winners
Composer Michael Gilbertson '13MM '21DMA won for his pieces Born and Returning, which were recorded by The Crossing. The album, titled Born, won in the "Best Choral Performance, Classical" category and also features music by Edie Hill.
YSM faculty tubist Carol Jantsch and cellist Alexander Veltman ’90MM won as members of the Philadelphia Orchestra for a recording titled Letter from the Future featuring Contact by composer Kevin Puts ’99MM. The recording also features the trio Time for Three and was conducted by Xian Zhang. The album won in the “Best Classical Instrumental Solo” category, for Jennifer Higdon’s Concerto 4-3, and in the “Best Contemporary Classical Composition” category.
Double-bassist Daniel Krekeler ’99MM won as a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for a performance of Terrance Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Bassoonist Dennis Michel ’77MM won as a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for a recording of Mason Bates’ Philharmonia Fantastique: The Making of the Orchestra. The recording, which was conducted by Edwin Outwater, won in the “Best Engineered Album, Classical” category.
Violinist Dominic Salerni ’11MM won as a member of the Attacca Quartet for a recording titled Evergreen, featuring music by composer Caroline Shaw ’07MM. That album won in the “Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance” category.
GRAMMY nominees
Composer Andy Akiho ’11MM was nominated in the “Best Contemporary Classical Composition” category for a recording of Ligneous Suite, which was recorded by percussionist Ian Rosenbaum ’10MM ’11AD and the Dover Quartet.
Saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom ’76BA ’77MM was nominated for Picturing the Invisible: Focus 1. The album, which features music by Bloom, who also co-produced the recording, was nominated in the “Best Immersive Audio Album” category.
Violinists Irene Cheng ’94MM and Louis Lev ’90MM were nominated as members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for a recording, conducted by Manfred Honeck, of Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony and Steven Stucky’s Silent Spring. The album was nominated in the “Best Engineered Album, Classical” category. Jacob Joyce ’14BA ’15MM is an assistant conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
Violinists Jin-Shan Dai ’04, Jung Eun Kang ’18MM ’19MMA, and Edith Markman ’73MM were nominated as members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for a recording, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, of Dvořák’s Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth symphonies. The album was nominated in the “Best Orchestral Performance” category. Paolo Bortolameolli ’13MM is an associate conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Violinist Sheila Fiekowsky ’75MM and cellist Owen Young ’86BA ’87MM were nominated as members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for a recording, conducted by John Williams and featuring soloist Anne-Sophie Mutter, of Williams’ Second Violin Concerto and Selected Film Themes. The album was nominated in the “Best Engineered Album, Classical” category.
Flutist Jake Fridkis ’14MM ’AD15 was nominated for his work as a writer and producer on DJ Khaled's album God Did. The album was nominated in the "Best Rap Album" category.
Guitarist Ji Yeon “JIJI” Kim ’17MM was nominated as a member of Wild Up for a recording titled Eastman: Stay On It, featuring music by Julius Eastman. The recording, which was conducted by Christopher Rountree, was nominated in the “Best Orchestral Performance” category.
Double-bassist Daniel Krekeler ’99MM was nominated as a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for a performance of Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The album was nominated in the "Best Opera Recording" category. Krekeler was also nominated for a recording titled Verdi’s Requiem: The Met Remembers 9/11, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. That recording, which features tenor Matthew Polenzani ’94MM, was nominated in the “Best Choral Performance” category. All three recordings also feature bass Tyler Simpson ’10MM, a member of the Metropolitan Opera Chorus, and baritone Maksim Zhdanovskikh ’00MM, an extra chorister.
Clarinetist Seunghee Lee ’92MM ’94AD was nominated for a recording titled Aspire, which features composer and bandoneonist J.P. Jofre. The recording, which was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Enrico Fagone, was nominated in the “Best Classical Compendium” category.
Pianist Eri Nakamura ’05MM ’06AD was nominated as a member of the Neave Trio for a recording titled Musical Remembrances, which was nominated in the “Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance” category.
Conductor Doug Perkins ’00MM ’01AD was nominated for a recording of John Luther Adams’ Sila: The Breath of the World. The recording was performed by musicians from the Department of Chamber Music at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance and the school’s percussion ensemble. The recording was nominated in the “Best Orchestral Performance” category.
Violinist Dominic Salerni '11MM was nominated as a member of the Attacca Quartet for 2+2=5, a recording with singer-songwriter-instrumentalist Becca Stevens and arranged by Stevens and Attacca violist/composer-arranger Nathan Schram. The recording was nominated in the “Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals” category.
Violinist Edson Scheid ’11MM ’12AD was nominated as a member of Il Pomo D’Oro for a recording titled Eden, featuring mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev. The recording was nominated in the “Best Classical Solo Vocal Album” category.
David Skidmore ’08MM was nominated as a member of Third Coast Percussion for a recording titled Perspectives, which was nominated in the “Best Engineered Album, Classical” and “Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance” categories.
