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Congratulations to this year’s Grammy Nominees!
Join us in congratulating the Cedille artists and creative collaborators represented in this year’s Grammy Award nominations!
Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
Will Liverman and Jonathan King are nominated for their performances on Show Me the Way. The album also features performances by J’Nai Bridges, Nicole Cabell, Renée Fleming, Terry Liverman, Lady Jess (violin), and Tahirah Whittington (cello).
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
David Lang‘s Composition as Explanation from Eighth Blackbird‘s album of the same name is nominated in this category.
Presented by the Recording Academy since 1958, the GRAMMYs are an annual celebration of excellence, the music community’s highest honor, and its only peer-based award. Only members of the Recording Academy — performers, songwriters, producers, engineers, instrumentalists, and other creators currently working in the recording industry — get to vote on the nominations. A Grammy is truly a stamp of approval from other record creators. It’s a big deal!
Pianist Lisa Kaplan, founding member and Executive Director of multiple Grammy-winning (for four consecutive Cedille albums!) ensemble, Eighth Blackbird, remarked:
“THE THING ABOUT A GRAMMY IS THAT IT GIVES LEGITIMACY, SO THE RESULT . . . HAS BEEN MORE GIGS AND MORE VISIBILITY.”
In recent cycles, Cedille recordings have been honored with Grammy nominations almost every year, with 35 total nominations and 8 awards since 2003.
As a nonprofit label funded in large part by charitable contributions, Cedille is able to make recording decisions based on the artistic merit of each project. The result every time is a high-quality artistic performance and recording, one that with promotion (and a little luck) attracts the attention of the Recording Academy and its members.
We’re honored to work with such talented artists and collaborators, and grateful for the support of music lovers like you who make our work possible.
The 67th annual Grammy Awards ceremony will take place February 2. Classical music awards are included in the pre-show, streamed online before the network telecast. We hope you’ll watch!
Recommended
Pacifica Quartet’s final album in the American Collections trilogy – American Portraits. Bringing together touchstones of the American repertoire, American Portraits features some of the most canonical American chamber works alongside world premiere recordings of two newly commissioned works.
Winner of Cedille Records’ 2025 Emerging Artist Competition, Chicago-born oboist Oliver Talukder makes his solo recording debut with Briefly Gorgeous. Joined by pianist Moriah Trenk, Talukder presents an album inspired by themes of identity, love, family, and belonging. Drawing on his Mexican and Bengali heritage and his Chicago upbringing, the program explores where classical music intersects with Latino and South Asian traditions, creating a musical portrait shaped by Talukder’s unique story.
To celebrate the Oct. 9 release of American Portraits, the Pacifica Quartet‘s 18th album for Cedille, a playlist with a track from each of its Cedille albums, in chronological order, starting with its very first CD in 1999.
On Sunday, September 27 many of Chicago’s most enthusiastic classical music supporters gathered at Venue SIX10 to celebrate Cedille Records with wonderful performances, meaningful presentations of our annual awards, and delicious food and drink.