CONTESTS & AWARDS
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Competitions & Awards
Time for Three Tops the Classical Grammys
Many Grammys are awarded just prior to the televised ones; classical music's among them. Below is the complete list, with a few strange ones, including the awarding of “Best Classical Instrumental Solo” to Time for Three, a trio; “Best Orchestral Performance” to a Youth Orchestra’s recording of works by three black women composers. Yannick Nézet-Séguin can claim two: one conducting the Metropolitan Opera production of Fire Shut Up My Bones, one as a collaborative pianist with Renée Fleming on Voice of Nature; the Philadelphia Orchestra lays claim to two, both conducted by Xian Zhang.
Best Engineered Album, Classical
Bates: Philharmonia Fantastique — The Making of the Orchestra. Shawn Murphy, Charlie Post and Gary Rydstrom, engineers; Michael Romanowski, mastering engineer (Edwin Outwater and Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
Producer of the Year, Classical
Judith Sherman
Best Orchestral Performance
Works by Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery, Valerie Coleman. Michael Repper, conductor. New York Youth Symphony
Best Opera Recording
Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Angel Blue, Will Liverman, Latonia Moore, and Walter Russell III; David Frost, producer. The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus.
Best Choral Performance
Born. The Crossing, Donald Nally, conductor. Dominic German, Maren Montalbano, Rebecca Myers and James Reese
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
Shaw: Evergreen. Attacca Quartet
Best Classical Instrumental Solo
Letters for the Future. Time for Three; Xian Zhang, conductor, The Philadelphia Orchestra
Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene. Renée Fleming, soprano; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, pianist
Best Classical Compendium
An Adoption Story. Starr Parodi and Kitt Wakeley; Jeff Fair, Starr Parodi and Kitt Wakeley, producers. The London Symphony.
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
Puts: Contact. Kevin Puts, composer; Xian Zhang, conductor; Time for Three and the Philadelphia Orchestra