|
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
|
The Frost School of Music at the University of Miami congratulates its esteemed faculty and gifted alumni honored with Grammy nominations announced on Nov. 24.
Maria Schneider, a five time Grammy Award winner, who serves as artistic director of the Frost School’s Henry Mancini Institute received two nominations in association with her latest release Data Lords, marking her 16th total nomination. In 2004 Maria, who blazed the trail for crowd funding recordings, made history receiving the first Grammy for an internet only sales album.
This marks the 11th nomination for Frost’s Studio Music and Jazz lecturer, pianist/composter and producer Gonzalo Rubalcaba, who was nominated for Best Latin Jazz Album for Viento Y Tiempo — Live at Blue Note Tokoyo. Gonzalo has two Grammy wins as producer for Charlie Haden albums in 2001 and 2004.
Frost alumni nominated this year exhibit incredible musical diversity. Chorusmaster James Kelly Bass (DMA ’05), already a three-time nominee, received three nominations. Neal J. Avron (BM ’87), a Grammy-winning mixer/producer who has worked with artists ranging from Twenty-One Pilots, Sara Bareilles, Fall Out Boy and Linken Park was nominated for Best Musical Theater Album, and Carmen Lundy (BM ’80) for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Rounding out the list is Jeremy Adam Levy (BM ’04), and Pat Metheny each in separate arranger categories.
“The consistent high achievements of Frost faculty and alumni each year is truly extraordinary and inspiring,” said Dean Shelton G. Berg. “Being acknowledged by your peers for excellence in recording is the ultimate reward in music. I applaud and congratulate our 2021 class of GRAMMY Nominees.”
The 63rd Grammy Awards will be broadcast in HDTV and 5.1 surround sound on the CBS Television Network, Sunday, Jan. 31, at 8 p.m. locally.
