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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – If it’s awards season, it must mean that a number of artists affiliated with the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music are holding their breath to see if their projects win a coveted Grammy Award.
This year, one of them is faculty trumpeter John Raymond, who is nominated for contributing his composition “Hymn” to Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band’s “Walk A Mile In My Shoe” release, up for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album.
While not directly nominated, Kathie Stewart, academic specialist in historical performance and historical keyboard curator, is also principal flute for Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra, whose album with Apollo’s Singers “Handel: Israel in Egypt” contends for Best Choral Performance.
Similarly, this time around, trombone professor and Grammy vet Denson Paul Pollard performs on two nominated recordings as a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. “Florencia en el Amazonas,” starring Jacobs alumna soprano Ailyn Pérez, and “The Hours” both compete for Best Opera Recording.
Numerous additional Jacobs School of Music alumni also participated on recordings that received nominations. Among them are:
- Kenny Aronoff, drums, “Impossible Dream,” Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
- Randy Brecker, trumpet, “Phoenix Reimagined (Live),” Best Jazz Performance
- John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton, The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, “And So It Goes,” Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
- Peter Erskine, drums, “Time and Again,” Best Latin Jazz Album
- Josh Johnson, saxophone, “No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin,” Best Alternative Jazz Album
- Laura Sisk, engineer/mixer, “Fortnight,” Record of the Year; “Short n’ Sweet” and “The Tortured Poets Department,” Album of the Year; “Short n’ Sweet,” Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
The Recording Academy will present the 67th Grammy Awards live from Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 2, at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.
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.
