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  • IU Jacobs School of Music Grammy 2016 contenders to watch for

IU Jacobs School of Music Grammy 2016 contenders to watch for

Monday, February 15, 2016

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Feb. 15, 2016

Percussionist Michael Spiro and trombonist Wayne Wallace

Percussionist Michael Spiro and trombonist Wayne Wallace

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The countdown to “music’s biggest night” has begun, with the Grammy Award telecast beginning at 8 p.m. EST tonight on CBS.

Per usual, the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music has a number of faculty and alumni who contributed to recordings contending for music’s most prestigious award. Here are a number to watch for:

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  • Faculty members Wayne Wallace, trombone, and Michael Spiro, percussion, Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet’s “Intercambio”: Best Latin Jazz Album
  • Adjunct faculty member John Fedchock, trombone and arrangement, John Fedchock New York Big Band’s “You and the Night and the Music” from “Like It Is”: Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella
  • Alumna Laura Sisk, engineer, Taylor Swift’s “1989”: Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, Record of the Year (“Blank Space”), others
  • Alumna Angela Brown, soprano, “Ask Your Mama”: Best Engineered Album–Classical, Best Classical Compendium, Producer of the Year–Classical (Judith Sherman)
  • Alumnus Aaron Sheehan, early music tenor, Boston Baroque’s “Monteverdi: Il Ritorno D’Ulisse in Patria” and Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra’s “Steffani: Niobe, Regina Di Tebe”: both up for Best Opera Recording, “Monteverdi” also for Best Engineered Album–Classical
  • Alumnus Daniel Shirley, tenor, “Monteverdi: Il Ritorno D’Ulisse in Patria”: Best Opera Recording, Best Engineered Album–Classical
  • Alumna Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano, New Budapest Orpheum Society’s “As Dreams Fall Apart—The Golden Age of Jewish Stage and Film Music (1925–1955)”: Best Classical Compendium
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