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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The suspense for Grammy Award nominees, including several affiliated with the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, is about to end.

Postponed from its original Jan. 31 date due to COVID-19 pandemic concerns, the Recording Academy will present the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards live from Los Angeles on Sunday, March 14, at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.

Among those anxiously awaiting this year’s results are the members of the Pacifica Quartet, the Jacobs School’s quartet-in-residence.

The ensemble’s most recent album, “Contemporary Voices,” is nominated for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance. If the group wins, it will be two for two, having won in the same category in 2008.

Also a veteran nominee, Jacobs alumna Laura Sisk is up for her work as an engineer/mixer on Taylor Swift’s “Folklore” release, which garnered several nominations, including Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album.

This is Sisk’s fourth nomination, with a win in 2016 for her engineering work on Swift’s “1989,” also in the Album of the Year category.

Tenor Brian Giebler has been a private studio student of Brian Gill, Jacobs professor of voice, for six years. Giebler’s debut solo album, “A Lad’s Love,” is vying for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album—his first nomination.

 An alumnus of London’s Royal Academy of Music, Giebler lives in New York City and studies exclusively with Gill after earning a bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music and a master’s degree from the University of Michigan.

Offering more than 1,100 performances annually, including five operas, three ballets and a musical, the IU Jacobs School of Music plays a leading role in educating performers, scholars, composers, music educators and audio engineers around the globe. Its 170-plus full-time faculty members include performers, scholars and teachers of international renown.