{"id":86418,"date":"2022-11-18T11:53:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T16:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=86418"},"modified":"2022-11-18T11:53:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T16:53:49","slug":"scoop-yannick-nezet-seguin-leads-canadian-nominations-2023-grammy-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2022\/11\/18\/scoop-yannick-nezet-seguin-leads-canadian-nominations-2023-grammy-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP |  Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin Leads Canadian Nominations For 2023 Grammy Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_86422\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86422\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Grammy-2023-nominees.jpg\" alt=\"Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin (Photo: Hans Van Der Woerd)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin (Photo: Hans Van Der Woerd)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The nominations for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grammy.com\/news\/2023-grammy-nominations-complete-winners-nominees-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2023 Grammy Awards<\/a> have been announced, and Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin leads the Canadian contingent with five nods in four categories.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s tied with a prolific music producer, and several other Canadian artists making a splash on the international stage.<\/p>\n<h2>The Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin\/Canadian classical music nods<\/h2>\n<p>Here are the categories, and other contenders, where the Montr\u00e9al conductor and musician is nominated.<\/p>\n<h3>Best Opera Recording<\/h3>\n<p>Award to the Conductor, Album Producer(s) and Principal Soloists, and to the Composer and Librettist (if applicable) of a world premiere Opera recording only.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Aucoin: Eurydice<\/em> \u2014 <strong>Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin<\/strong>, conductor; Barry Banks, Nathan Berg, Joshua Hopkins, Erin Morley &amp; Jakub J\u00f3zef Orli\u0144ski; David Frost, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)<\/li>\n<li><em>Blanchard: Fire Shut Up In My Bones<\/em> \u2014 <strong>Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin<\/strong>, conductor; Angel Blue, Will Liverman, Latonia Moore &amp; Walter Russell III; David Frost, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)<\/li>\n<li><em>Davis: X \u2014 The Life And Times Of Malcolm X<\/em> \u2014 Gil Rose, conductor; Ronnita Miller, Whitney Morrison, Victor Robertson &amp; Dav\u00f3ne Tines; Gil Rose, producer (Boston Modern Orchestra Project; Odyssey Opera Chorus)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Best Choral Performance<\/h3>\n<p>Award to the Conductor, and to the Choral Director and\/or Chorus Master where applicable, and to the Choral Organization\/Ensemble.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Bach: St. John Passion<\/em> \u2014 John Eliot Gardiner, conductor (English Baroque Soloists; Monteverdi Choir)<\/li>\n<li><em>Born<\/em> \u2014 Donald Nally, conductor (Dominic German, Maren Montalbano, Rebecca Myers &amp; James Reese; The Crossing)<\/li>\n<li><em>Verdi: Requiem \u2014 The Met Remembers 9\/11<\/em> \u2014 <strong>Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin<\/strong>, conductor; Donald Palumbo, chorus master (Michelle DeYoung, Eric Owens, Ailyn P\u00e9rez &amp; Matthew Polenzani; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Best Classical Solo Vocal Album<\/h3>\n<p>Award to: Vocalist(s), Collaborative Artist(s) (Ex: pianists, conductors, chamber groups) Producer(s), Recording Engineers\/Mixers with greater than 50% playing time of new material.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Eden<\/em> \u2014 Joyce DiDonato, soloist; Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor (Il Pomo D\u2019Oro)<\/li>\n<li><em>How Do I Find You<\/em> \u2014 Sasha Cooke, soloist; Kirill Kuzmin, pianist<\/li>\n<li><em>Okpebholo: Lord, How Come Me Here?<\/em> \u2014 Will Liverman, soloist; Paul S\u00e1nchez, pianist (J\u2019Nai Bridges &amp; Caen Thomason-Redus)<\/li>\n<li><em>Stranger \u2014 Works For Tenor<\/em> By Nico Muhly \u2014\u00a0 Nicholas Phan, soloist (Eric Jacobson; Brooklyn Rider &amp; The Knights; Reginald Mobley)<\/li>\n<li><em>Voice Of Nature \u2014 The Anthropocene<\/em> \u2014 Ren\u00e9e Fleming, soloist; <strong>Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin<\/strong>, pianist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Best Classical Compendium<\/h3>\n<p>Award to the Artist(s) and to the Album Producer(s) and Engineer(s) of over 50% playing time of the album, and to the Composer and Librettist (if applicable) with over 50% playing time of a world premiere recording only.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>An Adoption Story<\/em> \u2014 Starr Parodi &amp; Kitt Wakeley; Jeff Fair, Starr Parodi &amp; Kitt Wakeley, producers<\/li>\n<li><em>Aspire<\/em> \u2014 JP Jofre &amp; Seunghee Lee; Enrico Fagone, conductor; Jonathan Allen, producer<\/li>\n<li><em>A Concert For Ukraine<\/em> \u2014 <strong>Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin<\/strong>, conductor; David Frost, producer<\/li>\n<li><em>The Lost Birds<\/em> \u2014 Voces8; Barnaby Smith &amp; Christopher Tin, conductors; Sean Patrick Flahaven &amp; Christopher Tin, producers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Other classical Canadian connections<\/h3>\n<p>Under <strong>Producer of the Year, Classical<\/strong>, <strong>Judith Sherman<\/strong> gets a nod for her work on two releases by Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois virtuoso <strong>Marc-Andr\u00e9 Hamelin<\/strong>: <em>Bach, C.P.E.: Sonatas &amp; Rondos<\/em> (Marc-Andr\u00e9 Hamelin) and <em>Bolcom: The Complete Rags<\/em> (Marc-Andr\u00e9 Hamelin). She\u2019s also recognized for her work on severla other 2022 releases.<\/p>\n<p>Under <strong>Best Historical Album<\/strong>, compilation producer Robert Russ and mastering engineer Martin Kistner are nominated for <em>The Goldberg Variations \u2014 The Complete Unreleased 1981 Studio Sessions<\/em>, a tribute to the late, legendary Canadian pianist <strong>Glenn Gould<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Other Canadian Grammy nods<\/h2>\n<p>Romanian-Canadian audio engineer and mixer Serban Ghenea ties N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin\u2019s five Grammy nominations. Among others, he\u2019s up for record of the year for Mary J. Blige\u2019s Good Morning Gorgeous. Ghenea has previously won 19 Grammy Awards.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Toronto producer <strong>Boi-1da<\/strong>, aka Matthew Samuels, garnered <strong>four nominations<\/strong>, two for album of the year category for Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s <em>Renaissance<\/em> and Kendrick Lamar\u2019s <em>Mr. Morale &amp; The Big Steppers<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Drake<\/strong> is recognized in <strong>three categories<\/strong>, in spite of boycotting the Grammys for years.;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Bubl\u00e9<\/strong>\u2019s <em>Higher<\/em> is nominated for traditional pop vocal album;<\/li>\n<li>DJ and producer <strong>Kaytranada<\/strong>\u2019s <em>Intimidated<\/em> featuring H.E.R., is recognized for dance\/electronic recording;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bryan Adams<\/strong> is nominated for best rock performance for his song \u201cSo Happy It Hurts\u201d;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Arcade Fire<\/strong> gets a nod for best alternative music album for<em> We<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li>Winnipeg-born mixing engineer <strong>Jesse Ray Ernster<\/strong> is nominated for record of the year for his work on Doja Cat\u2019s <em>Woman;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Along with Ghenea, <strong>Shawn Everett<\/strong> from Bragg Creek, Alta, and Vancouver producer <strong>Tobias Jesso Jr.<\/strong> are nominated for album of the year for Adele\u2019s<em> 30;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Montr\u00e9al film director <strong>Xavier Dolan<\/strong> and Quebec producer <strong>Nancy Grant<\/strong> are nominated for best music video for Adele\u2019s \u201cEasy On Me\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>Montr\u00e9al artist <strong>Allison Russell<\/strong> is nominated for best American roots performance for her contributions to \u201cProdigal Daughter,\u201d alongside Aoife O\u2019Donovan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Justin Bieber<\/strong> and his film crew are nominated for best music film Grammy for his documentary <em>Our World;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Also in the best music film category, <strong>Neil Young<\/strong>\u2019s <em>A Band A Brotherhood A Barn<\/em> documentary gets a nod.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 65th Grammy Awards will be hosted by Trevor Noah and broadcast Feb. 5 on Citytv and CBS from Los Angeles&#8217; Crypto.com Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck to all.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em><b>#LUDWIGVAN<\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily \u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ludwig-van.us9.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4f785cb3f9058f2393ccad035&amp;id=57cdb68eac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nominations for the 2023 Grammy Awards have been announced, and Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin leads the Canadian contingent with five nods in four categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":86422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39907,5,39646,39],"tags":[1430,5292,40375,2061,3627],"yst_prominent_words":[14250,15967,14263,27722,14258,14244,18435],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Grammy-2023-nominees.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-mtQ","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86418"}],"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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86423,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86418\/revisions\/86423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86418"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=86418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}