New Focus releases on 2020 Grammy Ballot
2020 Grammy ballot for your consideration
Several New Focus releases are on the first round ballot for the 2020 Grammy awards. The relevant albums/tracks are all currently streamable on their New Focus album pages, please take a listen and if you are a voting member, consider voting for these albums!
ACRONYM: Cantica Obsoleta on the Olde Focus imprint (Best Chamber Music Performance/Best Engineered Album)
John Aylward: Angelus (Best Chamber Music Performance)
Jennifer Curtis and Tyshawn Sorey: Invisible Ritual on International Contemporary Ensemble's imprint TUNDRA (Best Jazz Instrumental Album)
Zosha Di Castri: Tachitipo (Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Cortège, Classical Instrumental Solo for Dux, Producer of the Year, Best Engineered Album, Recording Package)
Dither: Potential Differences (Best Chamber Music Performance, Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Ones by Jascha Narveson)
Ekmeles: A Howl, That Was Also A Prayer (Best Chamber Music Performance)
Nomi Epstein: sounds (Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Till for solo piano)
Cenk Ergun: Sonare & Celare (Best Chamber Music Performance)
Ted Hearne: Hazy Heart Pump (Best Contemporary Classical Composition for The Answer to The Question That Wings Ask)
Colin Hinton: Simulacra on Panoramic imprint (Best Jazz Instrumental Album)
Hypercube: Brain on Fire (Best Chamber Music Performance)
Makaris: Wisps in the Dell on Olde Focus imprint (Best Chamber Music Performance)
Edward Smaldone: Once and Again (Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Letters from Home, Best Chamber Music Performance for Double Duo)
Spektral Quartet: Experiments in Living (Best Chamber Music Performance, Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Experiments in Living by George Lewis)
String Orchestra of Brooklyn: afterimage on partner label Furious Artisans (Best Classical Compendium, Best Contemporary Classical Composition for High Windows by Christopher Cerrone)
Richard Valittuto: nocturnes & lullabies (Best Classical Instrumental Solo)
Ning Yu: Of Being (Best Classical Instrumental Solo)
Barbora Kolářová: Imp in Impulse on partner label Furious Artisans (Album Of The Year, Best Classical Instrumental Solo, Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Pascal Le Boeuf's Imp in Impulse)
