Five Grammy(R) Awards for Artists, Engineers and Producers From Naxos of America Family of Distributed Labels
(firmenpresse) - FRANKLIN, TN -- (Marketwire) -- 02/13/12 -- Artists and producers from Naxos and its distributed labels were honored with five Grammy Awards at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards.
Composer and librettist 's opera won . This Naxos recording with the Florentine Opera Chorus and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra also won (Byeong-Joon Hwang & John Newton, engineers; Jesse Lewis, mastering engineer). The New York Times called Elmer Gantry "... an unabashedly populist piece. The music is kinetic, vividly scored and steeped in American vernacular idiom; the storytelling is urgent."
Naxos artists, percussionist and conductor also won the for their Naxos recording of Joseph Schwantner's , with the Nashville Symphony. Christopher Lamb is the Principal Percussionist of the New York Philharmonic.
tenor and won for their recording on the Cedille label of featuring music by Steven Mackey. Of his own composing Mackey wrote: "... the daily act of exploration and discovery is as important to me as the finished product."
Producer won for six different recordings on Cedille (Capricho Latino, Notable Women, The Soviet Experience, Vol. 1, Winging It), Sono Luminus (85th Birthday Celebration, Claude Frank) and Innova (Speak!), all distributed by Naxos. Judith Sherman is a ten-time Grammy Award nominee, and a three-time winner.
Jim Selby, CEO of Naxos of America, said: "My congratulations to the artists, engineers and producers involved in these projects. It is their dedication and creative genius that makes the music business so exciting and rewarding."
is the #1 independent classical music distributor in the U.S. and Canada. Specializing in state-of-the-art distribution, marketing and promotion, Naxos of America distributes nearly 32,000 SKUs to traditional brick and mortar retail, as well as offering a comprehensive suite of services tailored to consumer direct fulfillment. Naxos of America is also the largest digital distributor of independent classical music, supplying a catalog of over 30,000 albums to hundreds of digital download and mobile outlets worldwide.
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Raymond Bisha
Director of Media Relations
917- 892-1249
Kelly Rach
National Publicist
Naxos of America
615-465-3806
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