Daugherty’s Metropolis Wins Three Grammys!

February 2011

At the Grammy Awards ceremony, held on Sunday, February 13, it was announced that Metropolis Symphony, a work by School of Music, Theatre & Dance professor of composition Michael Daugherty and performed by the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero conducting, won three Grammys:  Best Engineered Album, Classical; Best Orchestral Performance; and Best Classical Contemporary Composition. Hear an excerpt from the work, read more about the work from NPR and more about the composer in the Fall 2009 Michigan Muse.

"I am incredibly excited and honored to be recognized by the Grammys," texted Daugherty, who was in LA to accept the award. "I owe so much to all the fantastic musicians I have worked with over the years and those who taught me music as I was growing up back in Cedar Rapids, IA.  . . . it shows what a inspiring place Ann Arbor is for an artist to live and create music, what a great place the University of Michigan is to teach young composers who very well may be here to accept their own Grammy some day!"

The recording of SMTD composition faculty member Evan Chambers’ The Old Burying Ground, performed by the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Kiesler, conducting, won for Producer of the Year, Classical, David Frost, producer.