David Frost is a recording producer with numerous releases by major labels such as Sony Classical, Decca Classics, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI Classics and RCA Red Seal. Honors now include twenty Grammy Awards, among them seven for Classical Producer of the Year, three for Best Engineered Classical Album, two for Best Opera Recording, Best Classical Album, Best Choral Performance, and Best Surround Album.
65th Grammy Award Nominations
November 28, 2022
David has been nominated for three GRAMMY awards this year as producer, with two additional recordings
nominated on which he served as producer!
GRAMMY AWARD NOMINATIONS
BEST OPERA RECORDING
- Aucoin: Eurydice Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Barry Banks, Nathan Berg, Joshua Hopkins, Erin Morley & Jakub Józef Orliński; David Frost, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus); David Frost, producer
- Blanchard: Fire Shut Up In My Bones Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Angel Blue, Will Liverman, Latonia Moore & Walter Russell III; David Frost, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus); David Frost, producer
BEST CLASSICAL COMPENDIUM
- A Concert For Ukraine Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; David Frost, producer
Additional Albums Nominated
BEST CHORAL PERFORMANCE
- Verdi: Requiem – The Met Remembers 9/11 Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Donald Palumbo, chorus master (Michelle DeYoung, Eric Owens, Ailyn Pérez & Matthew Polenzani; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus); David Frost, producer
BEST CLASSICAL SOLO VOCAL ALBUM
- Voice Of Nature – The Anthropocene Renée Fleming, soloist; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, pianist
64th Grammy Award Nominations / 20th GRAMMY award win
December 6, 2021
David has won his 20th GRAMMY award as Producer for “Best Opera Recording” for the Metropolitan Opera’s “Akhnaten” by Philip Glass
WINNER – BEST OPERA RECORDING
- Glass: Akhnaten Karen Kamensek, conductor; J’Nai Bridges, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Zachary James & Dísella Lárusdóttir; David Frost, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)
NOMINATIONS
PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, CLASSICAL
David Frost
- Chamber Works By Dmitri Klebanov (ARC Ensemble)
- Glass: Akhnaten (Karen Kamensek, J’Nai Bridges, Dísella Lárusdóttir, Zachary James, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra)
- Mon Ami, Mon Amour (Matt Haimovitz & Mari Kodama)
- One Movement Symphonies – Barber, Sibelius, Scriabin (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony)
- Poulenc: Dialogues Des Carmélites (Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Isabel Leonard, Erin Morley, Adrianne Pieczonka, Karita Mattila, Karen Cargill, Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra)
- Primavera I – The Wind (Matt Haimovitz)
- Roots (Randall Goosby & Zhu Wang)
BEST OPERA RECORDING
- Poulenc: Dialogues Des Carmélites Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Karen Cargill, Isabel Leonard, Karita Mattila, Erin Morley & Adrianne Pieczonka; David Frost, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)
