{"id":58628,"date":"2019-02-10T22:08:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T03:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=58628"},"modified":"2019-02-10T22:13:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T03:13:01","slug":"the-scoop-canadian-james-ehnes-wins-big-at-2019-grammy-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2019\/02\/10\/the-scoop-canadian-james-ehnes-wins-big-at-2019-grammy-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Canadian James Ehnes Wins Big At 2019 Grammy Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_58629\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58629\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58629\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/Grammy-awards-2019-james-ehnes.jpg\" alt=\"2019 Grammy Awards\" width=\"1024\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/Grammy-awards-2019-james-ehnes.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/Grammy-awards-2019-james-ehnes-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/Grammy-awards-2019-james-ehnes-768x400.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-58629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canadian violinist James Ehnes awarded double Grammy awards for Kernis: Violin Concerto at the 61st annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Broadcast\u00a0from the Los Angeles\u2019 Staples Center on Sunday night, the 61st annual Grammy Awards have announced the winners.<\/p>\n<p>This year, out of the total of six Canadian artists and groups nominated over the 10 classical music categories, it was Canadian violinist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2014\/12\/04\/qa-30-questions-for-james-ehnes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>James Ehnes<\/strong> <\/a>who took home\u00a0an award in the <strong>Best Classical Instrumental Solo<\/strong>\u00a0category for the <strong>Kernis: Violin Concerto<\/strong>. The album&#8217;s namesake composition\u00a0also won for <strong>Best Contemporary Classical Composition<\/strong>, making it a double win for Ehnes.<\/p>\n<p>While classical music was not\u00a0part of the nine categories given out on air, the Recording Academy announced the winners prior to the televised show.<\/p>\n<p>The full list of winners in the classical field are:<\/p>\n<h3>Best Orchestral Performance:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 &amp; 11 \u2014 Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Best Opera Recording<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Bates: The (R)Evolution Of Steve Jobs \u2014\u00a0 Michael Christie, conductor; Sasha Cooke, Jessica E. Jones, Edwards Parks, Garrett Sorenson &amp; Wei Wu; Elizabeth Ostrow, producer (The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Best Choral Performance<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cMcLoskey: Zealot Canticles,\u201d Donald Nally, conductor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Best Chamber Music\/Small Ensemble Performance<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Anderson, Laurie: Landfall \u2014 Laurie Anderson &amp; Kronos Quartet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Best Classical Instrumental Solo<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Kernis: Violin Concerto \u2014 James Ehnes; Ludovic Morlot, conductor (Seattle Symphony)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Best Classical Solo Vocal Album<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Songs Of Orpheus \u2014 Monteverdi, Caccini, D\u2019india &amp; Landi \u2014 Karim Sulayman; Jeannette Sorrell, conductor; Apollo\u2019s Fire, ensembles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Best Classical Compendium<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Fuchs: Piano Concerto \u2018Spiritualist\u2019; Poems Of Life; Glacier; Rush \u2014 JoAnn Falletta, conductor; Tim Handley, producer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Best Contemporary Classical Composition<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Kernis: Violin Concerto \u2014 Aaron Jay Kernis, composer (James Ehnes, Ludovic Morlot &amp; Seattle Symphony)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Best Engineered Album, Classical<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 &amp; 11 \u2014 Shawn Murphy &amp; Nick Squire, engineers; Tim Martyn, mastering engineer (Andris Nelsons &amp; Boston Symphony Orchestra)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Producer Of The Year, Classical<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Blanton Alspaugh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Congratulations to all the\u00a0winners!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For a complete list of the 2019 Grammy Award classical nominees see, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2018\/12\/07\/the-scoop-canadian-classical-music-represents-at-the-61st-grammy-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian violinist James Ehnes awarded double Grammy awards for Kernis: Violin Concerto at the 61st annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":58629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25164,5,39],"tags":[5292,1666],"yst_prominent_words":[26709,25054,26710,26689,26703,25056,26702,26700,8074,26708,26707,25066,26701,14250,7664,26688,25074,26680,7251,10511],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/Grammy-awards-2019-james-ehnes.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-ffC","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58628"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58633,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58628\/revisions\/58633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58628"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=58628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}