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Grammy Award for Best Classical Album
The Grammy Award for Best Classical Album has been awarded since 1962. The award has had several minor name changes:
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Filter this CollectionPatti LuPone
Patti LuPone (born April 21, 1949) is an American singer and actress, perhaps best known for her Tony Award-winning performances as Eva Perón in the 1979 musical Evita, and Rose in "Gypsy", and in her Olivier Award-winning performance as Fantine in...
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Esa-Pekka Salonen ( pronunciation (help·info); born June 30, 1958) is a prominent Finnish orchestral conductor and composer. He is currently Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London and Conductor Laureate of...
Cecilia Bartoli
Cecilia Bartoli (Italian pronunciation: [tʃeˈtʃilja ˈbartoli]; born June 4, 1966 in Rome) is an Italian mezzo-soprano opera singer and recitalist. She is best-known for her interpretation of the music of Mozart and Rossini, as well as for her...
Valery Gergiev
Valery Abisalovich Gergiev (Ossetic: Гергиты Абисалы фырт Валери; Russian: Вале́рий Абиса́лович Ге́ргиев) (born 2 May 1953) is a Russian conductor and opera company director. He is general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre,...
James Conlon
James Conlon (born Queens, New York on March 18, 1950), is an American Grammy-Award winning conductor and the current Music Director of the Los Angeles Opera.
Conlon grew up in a family of five children on Cherry Street in Douglaston, Queens, New...
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Hilary Hahn
Hilary Hahn (born November 27, 1979 in Lexington, Virginia) is an American violinist.
Hahn began playing the violin one month before her fourth birthday in the Suzuki Program of Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory. She participated in a Suzuki class...
Audra McDonald
Audra Ann McDonald (born July 3, 1970) is a four-time Tony Award-winning and two-time Grammy Award-winning actress and singer. She currently stars in the ABC television drama Private Practice as Dr. Naomi Bennett.
Born in Berlin, Germany and raised...
Charles Bruffy
Charles Bruffy (born 1958) is a noted American choral conductor. He is artistic director of the Kansas City Chorale and the Phoenix Chorale and is Chorus Director of the Kansas City Symphony.
Bruffy received his Bachelors degree from Missouri...
Philip Siney
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Richard King
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Phoenix Chorale
The Phoenix Chorale (formerly known as the Phoenix Bach Choir) is a professional chamber choir based out of Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
The ensemble formed in 1958 as the Bach and Madrigal Society. After years as an amateur ensemble, the group...
Christopher Raeburn
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Wolf-Dieter Karwatky
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Arend Prohmann
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Sid McLauchlan
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Stephan Flock
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Boston Symphony Orchestra
The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1881, the BSO plays most of its concerts at Boston's Symphony Hall and...
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Michael Tilson Thomas
Michael Tilson Thomas (born December 21, 1944), is an American conductor, pianist and composer. He is currently music director of the San Francisco Symphony.
Tilson Thomas was born in Los Angeles, California to Ted and Roberta Thomas, Broadway stage...
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Tanglewood Festival Chorus
The Tanglewood Festival Chorus is a chorus which performs with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops in major choral works. The Tanglewood Festival Chorus (TFC) was organized in the spring of 1970, when conductor John Oliver became director...
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Steven Epstein
Steven Epstein, an American producer of classical music received a B.Sc. in Music education from Hofstra University in 1973.
Over the years, Epstein has worked with such artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Wynton Marsalis, Plácido Domingo, Isaac Stern, Itzhak...
Marin Alsop
Marin Alsop (born October 16, 1956) is an American conductor and violinist. She is the current music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
Alsop was born in New York City to professional musician parents. She attended Yale University, but...
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James Mallinson
James Mallinson is a multiple-Grammy-award winning record producer. He has won a total of 15 such awards in his career, his most recent Grammy nomination - and win - having come in 2006 for Best Opera Recording. He won his first Grammy in 1979, when...
James Levine
James Lawrence Levine (pronounced /lɛ'vaɪn/; born June 23, 1943) is an American conductor and pianist. He is currently the music director of the Metropolitan Opera and of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Levine's first performance conducting the...
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Nashville Symphony Orchestra
The Nashville Symphony is an American symphony orchestra, based in Nashville, Tennessee.
The Nashville Symphony was founded in 1920 from a group of amateur and professional musicians who formed their own orchestra and organized The Symphony Society....
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Jubilant Sykes
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Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
The Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra or the Kirov Orchestra is located in the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg The orchestra was founded in the 18th century during the reign of Peter the Great, it was known before the revolution as the Russian...
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Kevin Fox
Kevin Fox is the founding director of the Grammy-winning Pacific Boychoir.
He has been involved with boys choirs since the age of eight. He holds degrees in Music (with Honors) and Economics from Wesleyan University, Connecticut, where he studied...
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Chicago Symphony Chorus
The Chicago Symphony Chorus’s fifty-year history began on September 22, 1957, when the Chicago Symphony Orchestra announced that Margaret Hillis, at Music Director Fritz Reiner’s invitation, would organize and train a symphony chorus. It was Reiner...
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Andreas Neubronner
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Ragnar Bohlin
Ragnar Bohlin is a Swedish conductor born in 1965.
Bohlin is presently Director of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus. He holds a masters degree in organ and conducting and a postgraduate degree in conducting from the Conservatory of Music in...