Jennifer Higdon’s Percussion Concerto (which will be performed by Colin Currie and the Oregon Symphony next season) has won the Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition! The recording which was nominated and won featured Colin Currie and Marin Alsop with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. It’s available on the London Philharmonic’s own label.
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At tonight’s Grammy Awards, new music ensemble eighth blackbird won the Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance – that means (I’d assume) that Wilsonville resident, Willamette faculty, and member of fEARnoMUSIC (as well as frequent OSO substitute), flutist Molly Barth will soon have her very own Grammy sitting on her mantel at home! Congrats to
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James Bash has broken the story that Molly Barth, flute professor at Willamette University (and also a frequent substitute/extra with the OSO as well as with fEARnoMusic) has been nominated for a Grammy award. She was nominated as a member of the contemporary ensemble eighth blackbird, of which I believe she was a founding member.
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