First Round Grammy Ballot 2019
First round voting ends 10.10.19
Here are our titles on the first-round ballot for Grammy voting for 2019. First round voting ends on October 10th, so if you're a voting member (or even if not!) we deeply appreciate your consideration of all these albums:
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance:
ACRONYM: The Battle, the Bethel, & the Ball
JACK Quartet: Filigree - Music of Hannah Lash
Splinter Reeds: Hypothetical Islands
Rand Steiger: Coalescence Cycle, vol. 1 (on International Contemporary Ensemble's TUNDRA imprint)
Nicholas DiEugenio and Mimi Solomon: Unraveling Beethoven
Best Contemporary Composition:
Reiko Fueting: “als ein licht”/extensio; recorded by AuditivVokal Dresden, Art d'Echo, Olaf Katzer, conductor
Tonia Ko: Tribute/Axis II; recorded by Nicholas DiEugenio, violin, and Mimi Solomon, piano
Mary Kouyoumidijan: Aghavni; recorded by Nicholas Phillips, piano
Mathew Rosenblum: Lament/Witches Sabbath; recorded by Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, conductor, David Krakauer, clarinet
Best Classical Compendium:
Mathew Rosenblum: Lament/Witches Sabbath
Best Classical Vocal Solo Album:
The Bowers Fader Duo: Between Us All - New American Art Songs for Voice & Guitar
Best Instrumental Solo:
Mathew Rosenblum: Lament/Witches Sabbath; soloist: David Krakauer, clarinet
Nicholas Phillips: Shift
Best Opera:
Nathan Davis: Hagoromo (TUNDRA)
Suzanne Farrin: Dolce la Morte (TUNDRA)
ACRONYM and TENET: Johann Heinrich Schmelzer: Le Memorie Dolorose (Olde Focus)