Bard Conservatory and Music Faculty and Alumni/ae Nominated for 2024 GRAMMY Awards
Clockwise from top left: Champion, featuring Stephanie Blythe; Gramaphone icon Courtesy of the Recording Academy® / Getty Images ©; Stillpoint, featuring Jessie Montgomery; Dark With Excessive Bright, by Missy Mazzoli; Walking In The Dark, by Julia Bullock; On Becoming, featuring Max Zbiral-Teller.
Five Bard Conservatory of Music and Music Program faculty members and alumni/ae have been nominated for the 2024 GRAMMY Awards. Artistic Director of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program Stephanie Blythe is featured on the album Champion, nominated for Best Opera Recording. Bard Composers in Residence Jessie Montgomery and Missy Mazzoli are both nominees for Best Contemporary Classical Composition. Mazzoli’s concerto Dark With Excessive Bright and Montgomery’s “Rounds” for piano and string orchestra (featured in pianist Awadagin Pratt’s Stillpoint) have been nominated for the GRAMMY. Julia Bullock MM ’11 has been nominated for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album for her album Walking In The Dark. In the category of Best Contemporary Instrumental Album, music program alumnus Max Zbiral-Teller ’06, along with his House of Waters bandmates, has been nominated for On Becoming. The 2024 GRAMMYs, officially known as the 66th GRAMMY Awards, will take place Sunday, February 4 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
Post Date: 11-16-2023
Post Date: 11-16-2023