University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Well Represented in 2011 Grammy Award Nominations          

November 2010

Michael Daugherty's album Metropolis Symphony: Deus ex Machina, performed by the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, has been nominated for six Grammy Awards:  Best Classical Contemporary Composition; Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra); Best Orchestral Performance; Best Classical Album; Producer of the Year, Classical; Best Engineered Album, Classical. Congratulations, Michael!

The Silk Road Ensemble, of which percussion faculty member Joe Gramley is a founding member, is nominated in the category of Best Classical Crossover Album for its new CD Off the Map, a work of all premieres. Gramley was part of the commissioning and premiering process for all cuts on the new album. Two SMTD alums--Gabriela Lena Frank (DMA '01, composition) and Mark Suter (BM '89, percussion) are also represented on the CD.

Evan Chambers’ The Old Burying Ground is nominated for Producer of the Year, Classical for David Frost’s work as producer. SMTD alumnus Nicholas Phan (BM '01, voice) is tenor on the album Stravinsky: Pulcinella: Symphony In Three Movements, up for Best Orchestra Performance, Pierre Boulez conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Congratulations to all! The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards ceremony will be televised on February 13, 2011.