Congratulations to Curtis's 2023 GRAMMY Nominees!
The Dover Quartet, Hilary Hahn, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Time for Three are among this year's nominees.
The nominees for the 2023 GRAMMY Awards were announced on November 15. Among those honored are several celebrated faculty and alumni of Curtis who are in the front rank of musicians worldwide. 
The Dover Quartet, Curtis alumni and Penelope P. Watkins Ensemble in Residence, is nominated for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for their album Beethoven: Complete String Quartets, Volume 2 – The Middle Quartets. The Dover Quartet is also on the Ligneous Suite recording, nominated for Best Contemporary Classical Composition.
Works by Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery, and Valerie Coleman from New York Youth Symphony is nominated for Best Orchestral Performance. Michelle Cann was the soloist for the Price portion of that recording.
Alumna Hilary Hahn (Violin ’99) is nominated in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo category for composer Michael Abels’s Isolation Variation.
Alumni Nicholas Kendall (Violin ’01) and Ranaan Meyer (Double Bass ’03) are nominated for their recording Letters for the Future, with ensemble Time for Three, under the baton of Xian Zhang with The Philadelphia Orchestra. Time For Three also performs on the Kevin Puts Contact recording nominated for Best Contemporary Classical Composition.
Los Angeles-based ensemble Wild Up, a modern musical collective featuring Curtis alumna Jiji Kim (Guitar ’15), is nominated for Best Orchestral Performance with Eastman: Stay On It, taken from the second entry in Wild Up’s seven-volume anthology celebrating Julius Eastman (Piano ’63).
Alumna J’Nai Bridges (Opera ’12) is a collaborative artist on Okpebholo: Lord, How Come Me Here?, nominated for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album for baritone Will Liverman and pianist Paul Sánchez,
Alumnus Nicholas Cords (Viola ’97), part of acclaimed quartet Brooklyn Rider, joins tenor Nicholas Phan, conductor Eric Jacobson, young orchestra The Knights, and countertenor Reginald Mobley for the nominated album Stranger – Works For Tenor by Nico Muhly.
Mentor conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin received nominations for Best Opera Recording (for Blanchard: Fire Shut Up In My Bones with the Metropolitan Opera) and Best Choral Performance (for Verdi: Requiem – The Met Remembers 9/11) with Eric Owens (Opera ’95), Director, Vocal Studies and the Curtis Opera Theatre.
Mr. Nézet-Séguin was nominated for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album (for Voice of Nature – The Anthropocene with Renée Fleming) and Best Classical Compendium (for A Concert For Ukraine with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra).
A number of Curtis alumni are also members of the ensembles nominated across many categories.
Congratulations to all of the nominees!
The 65th GRAMMY Awards will take place Sunday, February 5, 2023, on CBS.