Interlochen alumni honored in 67th annual GRAMMY Awards
Singer-songwriters Chappell Roan and Norah Jones lead an exceptional cohort of alumni winners.
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Interlochen alumni earned six accolades during the 67th annual GRAMMY Awards ceremony, which took place on Feb. 2, 2025 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California.
Singer-songwriter Chappell Roan (IAC 14), who became a breakout star following the success of her album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, won the award for Best New Artist. Roan was also nominated for five other top prizes, including Record of the Year, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year.
Fellow singer-songwriter Norah Jones (IAC 94-95)—who won Best New Artist in 2003—earned the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album award for her latest album, Visions. Other alumni among the award winners include musical theatre composer and producer Tom Kitt (IAC 90), tenor Nicholas Phan (AS 93-94, IAC 95-96), saxophonist Patrick Cornelius (IAC 97), and several members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
See below for a full list of alumni winners:
- Best New Artist
- Chappell Roan (IAC 14)
- Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
- Bianca Reimagined: Music for Paws and Persistence — Dan Pugach Big Band | Patrick Cornelius (IAC 97)
- Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
- Visions — Norah Jones (IAC 94-95)
- Best Musical Theater Album
- Hell’s Kitchen | Tom Kitt (IAC 90), producer
- Best Orchestral Performance
- Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina — Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
- Rochelle Abramson (IAC/NMC 64-65, UNIV 69), first violin
- Ethan Bearman (IAC 92), horn
- Ted Botsford (IAC 96-98), double bass
- Whitney Crockett (IAC/NMC 76-78, 80), bassoon
- Jin-Shan Dai (IAA 96-98, IAC 98, ICA St 97-98, IAC St 99), second violin
- Jory Herman (IAC 99), double bass
- Jonathan Karoly (NMC 85), cello
- Catherine Ransom Karoly (IAC/NMC 84-85), flute
- Evan Kuhlmann (IAA 00-02), bassoon/contrabassoon
- Jason Lippman (IAC/NMC 90), cello
- Gregory Roosa (AS 78-81, UNIV 85, IAC St 86), horn
- Brent Samuel (IAC/NMC 86-87), cello
- Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina — Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
- Best Opera Recording
- Saariaho: Adriana Mater | Nicholas Phan (AS 93-94, IAC 95-96)
In addition to these accolades, Interlochen alumni performed on the recordings of two of the program's composition prize winners. Akropolis Reed Quintet members Ryan Reynolds (IAC 06-09, IAA 04-08), bassoon, and Tim Gocklin (IAC 07, IAC St 12), oboe, performed Pascal LeBoeuf's Best Instrumental Composition-winning work "Strands" on the album Are We Dreaming the Same Dream? The Los Angeles Philharmonic—which includes the 12 alumni listed above—performed Gabriela Ortiz's Revolución Diamantina, which won the award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition.
Presented annually by the Recording Academy during “Music’s Biggest Night,” the GRAMMY Awards are the most coveted accolade in the music industry. Nominees and winners are selected from a pool of more than 20,000 entries by voting members of the Recording Academy through a competitive, two-step voting process. Since the awards were first bestowed in 1959, 79 Interlochen alumni, faculty, and guest artists have received a combined total of 158 GRAMMY Awards.
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