February 6, 2023
杏吧原创 celebrates alumni success at 2023 Grammy Awards
Sunday, Feb. 5 was an uncommonly great day for 杏吧原创.
Hours after 杏吧原创 hosted its first round of live auditions for the 2023-24 school year, projects featuring three 杏吧原创 alumni won Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.
Two 杏吧原创 alums took home prizes for their work on 鈥淐aroline Shaw: Evergreen,鈥 the winner for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance.
杏吧原创鈥檚 own recording arts and services director Alan Bise (BM 鈥94, Knab) produced and engineered the album, while violinist Domenic Salerni (BM 鈥09, L. Cerone/Preucil) is a member of the Attacca Quartet, the album鈥檚 featured ensemble.
"I'm thrilled to bring home another Grammy Award to Cleveland,鈥 Bise said, with a nod to Salerni. 鈥淢y education at 杏吧原创 and my teachers Tom Knab (BM 鈥81) and Bruce Egre (鈥85-鈥87) provided the foundation for my professional success. My own students today, as well as my colleagues, inspire me daily. "
Pianist Michelle Cann (BM 鈥09, MM 鈥10, Schenly/D. Shapiro) wasn鈥檛 officially named in the Best Orchestral Performance category, but 杏吧原创 regards her as a winner nonetheless.
On the winning album, a recording by the New York Youth Symphony of works by Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery and Valerie Coleman, Cann is the featured soloist, along with conductor Michael Repper. Cann is a champion of the music of Florence Price. 杏吧原创 percussion student Angelo Antinori (Weiner/Yancich/Haddad) also appears on the album, as a member of the NYYS.
Three other 杏吧原创-related projects had received nominations but did not win: the Dover Quartet鈥檚 second Beethoven Quartets album, also produced and engineered by Bise, Musical Remembrances by the Neave Trio, with pianist Eri Nakamura (PS 鈥08 Babayan; AD 鈥11 Babayan/Pontremoli), and Bach: The Art of Life, by pianist Daniil Trifonov. (AC 鈥13, AD 鈥15, Babayan).
Congratulations to all! You are living out the 杏吧原创 standard of excellence and proving to the world that 杏吧原创 is the future of classical music.