Several graduates of the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music, along with Sara Gazarek, Eastman’s Associate Professor of Jazz Voice, have received nominations in the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc.’s 67th GRAMMY Awards:
Best Engineered Album, Classical
- Adams: Girls of the Golden West | Julia Bullock ’09E, soprano
- Clear Voices in the Dark | Skylark Vocal Ensemble including Fotina Naumenko ’10E, soprano
Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Capella
- Silent Night | säje including Sara Gazarek, Associate Professor of Jazz Voice
Best Arrangement, Instrument and Vocals
- Alma | säje including Sara Gazarek, Associate Professor of Jazz Voice
Best Opera Recording
- Adams: Girls of the Golden West | Julia Bullock ’09E, soprano
- Puts: The Hours | Kevin Puts ’94E, ’99E (DMA), composer; Renée Fleming ’83E (MM), ’11 (Honorary), soprano
Best Choral Performance
- Sheehan: Akathist | Fotina Naumenko ’10E, soprano; Pamela Terry ’07E (MM), mezzo-soprano
- Clear Voices in the Dark | Skylark Vocal Ensemble including Fotina Naumenko ’10E, soprano
Best Chamber Music Small Ensemble Performance
- Adams, J. L.: Waves & Particles | JACK Quartet including Christopher Otto ’06E, ’06, violin; John Pickford Richards ’02E, ’04E (MM), viola
- Rectangles and Circumstances | Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion including Jason Treuting ’99E, percussion
- Cerrone: Beaufort Scales | Lorelei Ensemble including Sarah Brailey ’04E, soprano; Kate Maroney ’10E (DMA), mezzo-soprano
Best Classical Instrumental Solo
- Perry: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra | Experiential Orchestra featuring soloist Curtis Stewart ’08E, ’08, violin
Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
- Newman: Bespoke Songs | Soloist Fotina Naumenko ’10E, soprano
Best Classical Compendium
- American Counterpoints | Curtis Stewart ’08E, ’08, violin
Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album
- Redding: Visions Of Sounds De Luxe | Mitchell Hutchings ’18E (DMA), baritone
Eastman also has several alumni included in the following ensembles that played on nominated albums, including: the Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Los Angeles and Cleveland Symphonies, the Louisiana and BBC Philharmonic Orchestras, and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
See the full list of GRAMMY Nominees here.
As the world’s leading society of music professionals, the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc. is dedicated to celebrating, honoring, and sustaining music’s past, present, and future. Winners of the Recording Academy’s 67th GRAMMY Awards will be announced on Sunday, February 2, 2025. Watch the broadcast live on CBS or stream on Paramount+ at 8:00 p.m. ET.
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About Eastman School of Music:
The Eastman School of Music was founded in 1921 by industrialist and philanthropist George Eastman (1854–1932), founder of Eastman Kodak Company. It was the first professional school of the University of Rochester. Mr. Eastman’s dream was that his school would provide a broad education in the liberal arts as well as superb musical training.
More than 900 students are enrolled in the Collegiate Division of the Eastman School of Music—about 500 undergraduates and 400 graduate students. They come from almost every state, and approximately 23 percent are from other countries. They are taught by a faculty comprised of more than 130 highly regarded performers, composers, conductors, scholars, and educators. They are Pulitzer Prize winners, Grammy winners, Emmy winners, Guggenheim fellows, ASCAP Award recipients, published authors, recording artists, and acclaimed musicians who have performed in the world’s greatest concert halls. Each year, Eastman’s students, faculty members, and guest artists present more than 900 concerts to the Rochester community. Additionally, more than 1,700 members of the Rochester community, from young children through senior citizens, are enrolled in the Eastman Community Music School.
About the University of Rochester:
The University of Rochester is one of the nation’s leading private research universities, one of only 62-member institutions in the Association of American Universities. Located in Rochester, N.Y., the University gives undergraduates exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary study and close collaboration with faculty through its unique cluster-based curriculum. Its College, School of Arts and Sciences, and Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are complemented by the Eastman School of Music, Simon School of Business, Warner School of Education, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, School of Medicine and Dentistry, School of Nursing, Eastman Institute for Oral Health, and the Memorial Art Gallery.