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Interlochen alumni selected as 2024 Grammy Award nominees

More than 70 Arts Camp and Arts Academy alumni received nominations across 14 award categories, including Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album, Best Musical Theater Album, and Best Folk Album.

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Seventy-six Interlochen Arts Camp and Arts Academy alumni are among the nominees for the 2024 Grammy Awards.

Presented annually by the Recording Academy, the Grammy Awards honor outstanding achievements in the music industry. Winners are selected by members of the Academy through a competitive, two-step voting process. The 2024 Grammy Award winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The ceremony will be broadcast live on CBS and streamed on Paramount+ at 8 p.m. ET.

Since the awards’ founding in 1959, 75 Interlochen Arts Camp and Arts Academy alumni, faculty, and guest artists have received a combined total of 146 Grammy Awards. Recent alumni winners include violinist Charles S. Yang (IAC 99-00); composers Starr Parodi (IAA 76-77) and Tom Kitt (IAC 90); and jazz saxophonist Ron Blake (IAC 79-81, IAA 80-82), among many others.

This year’s alumni nominees span 14 award categories, including Best Musical Theater Album, Best Folk Album, and Best Alternative Music Performance. Alumni performers are featured on four of the five nominees for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album, and 34 Interlochen-affiliated orchestral musicians performed on recordings nominated for Best Orchestral Performance. Recording engineer Jesse Lewis (IAC 96, IAA 00-02) received two nominations in the Best Engineered Album, Classical category.

See below for a full list of alumni nominees.

  • Best Alternative Music Performance
    • "Belinda Says" – Alvvays | Abbey Blackwell (IAC 08)
  • Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album
    • Chick Corea Symphony Tribute – ADDA Simfònica | Zsófia Keleti (IAC 99)
    • Dynamic Maximum Tension – Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society | Matthew Holman (IAC 98-99) and Adam Birnbaum (IAC 99)
    • Basie Sings the Blues – Count Basie Orchestra | Shawn Edmonds (IAC/NMC 81-82)
    • Charles Mingus Centennial Sessions – Mingus Big Band | Walter White (IAC/NMC 75-79, 81; IAA 78-81), Conrad Herwig (IAC/NMC 76), and Ron Blake (IAC 79-81, IAA 80-82)
  • Best Latin Jazz Album
    • Vox Humana – Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band | John Beaty (IAA 99-01), Joe Beaty (99-01), Andrew Neesley (IAC 90-96), and Dave Miller (IAC/NMC 87, IAA 87-88)
  • Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
    • Sondheim Unplugged (The NYC Sessions), Vol. 3 | Jacob Hoffman (IAC 01-02)
  • Best Musical Theater Album
    • Kimberly Akimbo | Victoria Clark (IAC/NMC 77)
    • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Josh Groban (IAC 97-98)
  • Best Folk Album
    • Folkocracy – Rufus Wainwright (IAC 90)
  • Best Regional Roots Music Album
    • Live: Orpheum Theater Nola – Lost Bayou Ramblers & the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra | Rachel Hsieh (IAC 96-02), Virginia McDowell (IAC 09-10), Jane Gabka (IAC 82), and Hunter Gordon (IAC 09)
    • Too Much To Hold – New Orleans Nightcrawlers | Kevin Ray Clark (IAC/NMC 76)
  • Best New Age Ambient or Chant Album
    • Aquamarine – Kirsten Agresta-Copely (AS 81, 83-84)
  • Best Historical Album
    • Words and Music, May 1965 | Produced by Laurie Anderson (IAC/NMC 62-63)
  • Best Engineered Album, Classical
    • The Blue Hour | Jesse Lewis (IAC 96, IAA 00-02), engineer
    • Sanlikol: A Gentleman of Istanbul - Symphony for Strings, Percussion, Piano, Oud, Ney, & Tenor | Jesse Lewis (IAC 96, IAA 00-02), engineer
  • Best Orchestral Performance
    • Adès: Dante – Los Angeles Philharmonic
      • Rochelle Abramson (IAC/NMC 64-65, UNIV 69), Ethan Bearman (IAC 92), Edward Botsford (IAC 96-98), Whitney Crockett (IAC/NMC 76-78, 80), Jin-Shan Dia (IAA 96-98, IAC 98, ICA St 97-98, IAC St 99), Jonathan Karoly (NMC 85), Catherine Karoly (IAC/NMC 84-85), Evan Kuhlmann (IAA 00-02), Jason Lippman (IAC/NMC 90), Gregory Roosa (AS 78-81, UNIV 85, IAC St 86), and Brent Samuel (IAC/NMC 86-87)
    • Price: Symphony No. 4; Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony – Philadelphia Orchestra 
      • Samuel Caviezal (IAA 91-92), Jason Depue (IAC 93), David Fay (IAC/NMC 77), Richard Harlow (IAC/NMC 71, UNIV 72, 74-75), Carol Jantsch (IAC 94-96; 98-99; IAA 99-02; IAC St 02; IAC Fac 05), Harold Robinson (IAC/NMC 68), Duane Rosengard (IAC/NMC 76, IAA 76-78), Olivia Staton (IAC 11), Nathaniel West (IAC 04-05, 07), and Patrick Williams (IAA 04-07, IAC St 07)
    • Scriabin: Symphony No. 2; The Poem of Ecstasy – Buffalo Philharmonic 
      • Amy Glidden (IAC/NMC 88), Dinesh Joseph (IAC 94-95), Joshua Lauretig (IAC 07-11), Jonathan Lombardo (IAC 95; IAA 96-00; IAC Fac 14-18; IAA Fac 16), Daniel Pendley (IAC 97), Loren Silvertrust (IAC 97-99), and Daniel Sweeley (AS 83-84, IAC/NMC 85-86)
    • Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring – San Francisco Symphony
      • Jill Brindel (IAC/NMC 58, 61-63, 65, 67), Jeff Biancalana (IAC/NMC 82-83, 85), Steven Dibner (AS 67, 69; IAC/NMC 70), Kelly Leon-Pearce (AS 77), Guy Piddington (IAC 96), and James Wyatt III (IAC/NMC 89)
  • Best Choral Performance
    • The House of Belonging – Conspirare | Michael Hawes (IAC 08-09)
    • Ligeti: Lux Aeterna – San Francisco Symphony Chorus | Cara Gabrielson (IAC 09), Elliott Encarnacion (IAA 05-06), Andrew McIver (IAC 16-17), and Adam Cole (IAA 86-88)
    • Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil – The Clarion Choir | Mikki Sodergren (IAA 06-08)
  • Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
    • American Stories - Anthony McGill (IAC 91, 93, IAA 94-96) & Pacifica Quartet | Brandon Vamos (IAC 81, 83)
    • Rough Magic – Roomful of Teeth | Martha Cluver (IAC 97, IAA 97-99)
  • Best Classical Compendium
    • Passion for Bach and Coltrane – Alex Brown, Harlem Quartet, and Imani Winds | Toyin Spellman-Diaz (IAC 89), Mark Dover (IAC 02-04, IAA 04-05), and Melissa White (IAC 93-94, IAA 00-02)
    • Zodiac Suite – Aaron Diehl (IAC 99-00) Trio and The Knights | Yaira Matyakubova (IAC 93-94, IAA 94-96), Kyle Armbrust (IAC 99), Alex Sopp (IAA 97-01), Erik Höltje (IAC 90, IAA 90-94), and Joseph Gramley (IAC 85-87, IAA 86-88)