Interlochen alumni win big at 2024 Grammy Awards
More than 20 Arts Camp and Arts Academy alumni performed on six Grammy Award-winning albums spanning the classical, jazz, and roots music genres.
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More than twenty Interlochen Arts Camp and Arts Academy alumni are among the honorees in 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 were announced at a live awards ceremony on Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
Since the awards’ founding in 1959, Interlochen Arts Camp and Arts Academy alumni, faculty, and guest artists have received more than 145 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 winners performed on seven award-winning albums spanning the classical, jazz, and roots music genres. See below for a full list of winners.
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: Basie Swings the Blues – Count Basie Orchestra
- Shawn Edmonds (IAC/NMC 81-82), trumpet
Best Regional Roots Music Album: Live: Orpheum Theater Nola – Lost Bayou Ramblers & the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
- Alumni in the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra include:
- Jane Gabka (IAC 82), assistant principal oboe
- Hunter Gordon (IAC 09), assistant principal bassoon
- Rachel Hsieh (IAC 96-02), cello
- Virginia McDowell (IAC 09-10), principal oboe
Best Orchestral Performance: Adès: Dante – Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Alumni in the Los Angeles Philharmonic include:
- Rochelle Abramson (IAC/NMC 64-65, UNIV 69), violin
- Ethan Bearman (IAC 92), horn
- Edward Botsford (IAC 96-98), double bass
- Whitney Crockett (IAC/NMC 76-78, 80), principal bassoon
- Jin-Shan Dia (IAA 96-98, IAC 98, ICA St 97-98, IAC St 99), violin
- Jonathan Karoly (NMC 85), cello
- Catherine 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
Best Opera Recording: Champion – Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
- Alumni in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra include:
- Elaine Douvas (AS 66, NMC 67-69, IAA 67-70, IAC St 70, IAC Fac 05, 07, 17), principal oboe
- Evan Epifanio (IAC 03-04), principal bassoon
- Rafael Figueroa (IAC/NMC 76-77, UNIV 78), principal cello
- Narciso Figueroa (IAC/NMC 72-74), violin
- Brad Gemeinhardt (IAC 94, IAA 94-96, IAC Fac 11-19, 21-24), principal horn
- Jeffery Irving (IAA 92-96, IAC St 96, IAC Fac 11-22), percussion
- Shmuel Katz (IAC 91), associate principal violn
- Amy Kauffman (IAC/NMC 86-87), violin
- Rob Knopper (IAC 02-03), percussion
- David Krauss (IAC/NMC 86-87), principal trumpet
- Mark Romatz (AS 69-70), contrabassoon
- Anne Marie Scharer (IAC/NMC 85, IAC St 15, IAC Fac 16-19), horn
- William Short (IAC 04, 07, IAC Fac 16-17, 19-24), principal bassoon
- Steven White, (AS 06-07), percussion
- Greg Zuber (IAC/NMC 76-77, IAA 77-79), principal percussion
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: Rough Magic – Roomful of Teeth
- Martha Cluver (IAC 97, IAA 97-99), soprano
Best Classical Compendium: Passion for Bach and Coltrane – Alex Brown, Harlem Quartet, and Imani Winds
- Toyin Spellman-Diaz (IAC 89), oboe, Imani Winds
- Mark Dover (IAC 02-04, IAA 04-05), clarinet, Imani Winds
- Melissa White (IAC 93-94, IAA 00-02), violin, Harlem Quartet
- Edward Perez (IAC 91-92, IAA 93-96, IAC St 96), bass
The Louisville Orchestra, which performed alongside pianist Yuja Wang on her Best Classical Instrumental Solo-winning album The American Project, also features several Interlochen alumni. Alumni in the Louisville Orchestra include:
- Meghan Casper (IAC 91, IAA 91-93), viola
- Jake Chabot (IAC 11), flute
- Jessica Chancey (IAC 13), flute
- Andrea Daigle (IAA 04-06), violin
- Alex DiThomas (IAC 15), oboe
- Noah Dugan (IAC 11), principal trumpet
- Kathleen Karr (IAC/NMC 72-74), principal flute
- Scott Leger (IAC 09), assistant horn
- Clara Markham (UNIV 72), viola
- James McFadden-Talbot (IAC 06), assistant concertmaster
- Diana Morgen (IAC/NMC 79, UNIV 83), horn
- Grace Roepke (IAC 12-13), principal harp
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