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68th Grammy Award Nominations
December 12, 2025
David Frost has been nominated for two GRAMMY awards as Producer!
NOMINATED – BEST OPERA RECORDING
- Tesori: Grounded Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Ben Bliss, Emily D’Angelo, Greer Grimsley & Kyle Miller; David Frost, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus; George Brant)
NOMINATED – BEST CHORAL PERFORMANCE
- Childs: In The Arms Of The Beloved Grant Gershon, conductor (Billy Childs, Dan Chmielinski, Christian Euman, Larry Koonse, Lyris Quartet, Anne Akiko Meyers, Carol Robbins & Luciana Souza; Los Angeles Master Chorale; David Frost, producer)
67th Grammy Award Nominations
December 17, 2024
David Frost has been nominated for two GRAMMY awards as Producer!
NOMINATED – BEST OPERA RECORDING
- Catán: Florencia En El Amazonas – Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Mario Chang, Michael Chioldi, Greer Grimsley, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Mattia Olivieri, Ailyn Pérez & Gabriella Reyes; David Frost, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)
- Puts: The Hours – Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Joyce DiDonato, Renée Fleming & Kelli O’Hara; David Frost, producer (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Metropolitan Opera Chorus)
66th Grammy Award Nominations and Wins
December 7, 2023
David Frost just won three more GRAMMY awards on February 4th, 2024 as Producer, bringing his lifetime total to 25!
WINNER – BEST OPERA RECORDING
- Blanchard: Champion (Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Ryan Speedo Green, Latonia Moore & Eric Owens; David Frost, producer; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)
WINNER – BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, CLASSICAL
- Contemporary American Composers (David Frost & Charlie Post, engineers; Silas Brown, mastering engineer; Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
WINNER – BEST INSTRUMENTAL SOLO
- The American Project (Yuja Wang, piano; Teddy Abrams, conductor; Louisville Orchestra)
GRAMMY AWARD NOMINATION
PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, CLASSICAL
David Frost
- The American Project (Yuja Wang, Teddy Abrams, Louisville Orchestra)
- Arc II – Ravel, Brahms, Shostakovich (Orion Weiss)
- Blanchard: Champion (Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Latonia Moore, Ryan Speedo Green, Eric Owens, Stephanie Blythe, Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra)
- Contemporary American Composers (Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
- The Guitar Player (Mattias Schulstad)
- Mysterium (Anne Akiko Meyers, Grant Gershon & Los Angeles Master Chorale)
- Verdi: Rigoletto (Daniele Rustioni, Piotr Beczala, Quinn Kelsey, Rosa Feola, Varduhi Abrahamyan, Andrea Mastroni, The Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra)
65th Grammy Award Nominations / Two Grammy Award Wins
November 28, 2022
David has won two GRAMMY awards this year as producer!
WINNER – BEST CLASSICAL SOLO VOCAL ALBUM
- Voice Of Nature – The Anthropocene Renée Fleming, soloist; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, pianist; David Frost, producer
WINNER – BEST OPERA RECORDING
- 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
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; David Frost, producer
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)
63rd Grammy Award Wins – 3!
November 24, 2020
DAVID FROST (PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, CLASSICAL)
- Gershwin: Porgy And Bess (David Robertson, Eric Owens, Angel Blue, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus)
- Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13, ‘Babi Yar’ (Riccardo Muti, Alexey Tikhomirov, Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus)
- Gluck: Orphée & Eurydice (Harry Bicket, Dmitry Korchak, Andriana Chuchman, Lauren Snouffer, Lyric Opera Of Chicago Orchestra & Chorus)
- Muhly: Marnie (Robert Spano, Isabel Leonard, Christopher Maltman, Denyce Graves, Iestyn Davies, Janis Kelly, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus)
- Holst: The Planets; The Perfect Fool (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony)
- Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol. 9 (Jonathan Biss)
- Schubert: Piano Sonatas, D. 845, D. 894, D. 958, D. 960 (Shai Wosner)
GERSHWIN: PORGY AND BESS (BEST OPERA RECORDING)
- (David Robertson, Eric Owens, Angel Blue, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus) David Frost and John Kerswell, engineers; Silas Brown, mastering engineer
SHOSTAKOVICH: SYMPHONY NO. 13, ‘BABI YAR’ (BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, CLASSICAL)
- (Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra) David Frost & Charlie Post, engineers; Silas Brown, mastering engineer
61st Grammy Awards Nominations
December 7, 2018
David Frost receives two Grammy Award nominations for Producer of the Year, classical and for Best Opera Recording (Der Rosenkavalier)
Other albums associated with the Producer of the Year nomination are Idomeneo (Metropolitan Opera), Mirror in Mirror (Anne Akiko Meyers), Beethoven Piano Sonatas Volume 7 (Jonathan Biss) and Presentiment (Orion Weiss)
Grammy Nominations 2016
December 12, 2016
59th Grammy Award Nominations!!
Producer of the year, classical: David Frost
Albums associated with classical producer of the year:
- Bates: Anthology of Fantastic Zoology (Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony)
- Schoenberg: Kol Nidre; Shostakovich: Suite on Verses of Michelangelo (Ildar Abdrazakov, Alberto Mizrahi, Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony and Chorus)
- Brahms and Dvorak Serenades (Boston Symphony Chamber Players)
- Bach: The Cello Suites According to Anna Magdalena (Matt Haimovitz)
- Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol. 5 (Jonathan Biss)
- Shadow of Sirius (Jerry Junkin & The University of Texas Wind Ensemble)
- Overtures to Bach (Matt Haimovitz)
- Fitelberg: Chamber Works (ARC Ensemble)
- Ispirare (Melia Watras)
- Holiday Harmonies – Songs of Christmas (Jamie Barton, Judith Clurman & Essential Voices USA)
Best engineered album, classical – Shadow of Sirius (Jerry Junkin & The University of Texas Wind Ensemble) Silas Brown and David Frost Best chamber music/small ensemble performance – Fitelberg: Chamber Works (ARC Ensemble) ARC Ensemble Best contemporary classical composition – Bates: Anthology of Fantastic Zoology (Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony) Mason Bates
Fairouz “Follow, Poet” release date Jan. 27, 2015
January 22, 2015
Deutsche Grammophon will release “Follow, Poet”, an album of music by Mohammed Fairouz featuring mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey, percussionist Mike Truesdell, poet Paul Muldoon, the LPR ensemble and conductor Evan Rogister. Release date January 27, 2015. http://www.amazon.com/Follow-Poet-Mohammed-Fairouz/dp/B00QUYIQQU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421897027&sr=8-1&keywords=mohammed+fairouz
57th Grammy Nominations!
December 12, 2014
Riccardo Muti Conducts Mason Bates and Anna Clyne is nominated for Best Engineered Album, classical and Daniil Trifonov – The Carnegie Recital is nominated for Best Classical Instrumental Solo.
Muti conducts Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet”
November 9, 2014
David with engineers Tim Martyn and Charlie Post in the CSO’s new control room recording Romeo and Juliet. The album was released in October 2014.
Renée Fleming “Christmas in New York”
November 9, 2014
David produced Renée Fleming’s Christmas in New York with guest artists Wynton Marsalis, Kelli O’Hara, Kurt Elling, Gregory Porter, Rufus Wainwright and Chris Botti.
David Frost is the Kevin Bacon of Classical Music
November 9, 2014
In the fall issue of Grammy Magazine David was included in a list of the biggest winners of Grammy Awards in the 21st century. Read why he was compared to Kevin Bacon.
Otello with Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
October 27, 2013
In September 2013, CSO Resound released the complete Otello, with Riccardo Muti condcuting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Soloists include Aleksandrs Antonenko, Krassimira Stoyanova and Carlo Guelfi.
Jonathan Biss Beethoven Sonatas
October 27, 2013
David continues to produce the complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas with Jonathan Biss for Onyx. Volume three will be released in January 2014.
Maria Schneider’s “Winter Morning Walks”
September 30, 2012
David Frost wins for Classical Producer of the Year and Maria Schneider’s “Winter Morning Walks” wins three Awards at the 56th Grammy Awards, including Best Classical Vocal Solo (Dawn Upshaw), Best Classical Engineered Album (David Frost, Tim Martyn and Brian Losch) and Best Classical Composition (Maria Schneider). “Winter Morning Walks” with settings of the poetry of Ted Kooser, and “Carlos Drummond de Andrade Stories” were both written for Dawn Upshaw and recorded by Dawn Upshaw, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.
“Guilty Pleasures” with Renée Fleming
August 9, 2012
“Guilty Pleasures” was released in September 2013 by Decca.
Andrea Bocelli in Central Park
July 12, 2011
On September 15, 2011 David was the audio producer for this Great Performances show, DVD and CD featuring guest artists Celine Dion, Tony Bennett, Chris Botti, Bryn Terfel and others. The New York Philharmonic and conductor Alan Gilbert joined Mr. Bocelli for this outdoor extravaganza.
Carnegie at 120
March 14, 2011
David served as audio producer for Carnegie Hall’s celebration featuring Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic, Yo-Yo Ma, Audra McDonald, Gil Shaham and Emanuel Ax. Broadcast for Great Performances in May, 2011.
Mahler 7th Symphony with Pierre Boulez
September 15, 2010
David was audio producer for the recording of the Mahler 7th Symphony with Pierre Boulez and the Chicago Symphony for PBS Great Performances. Air date is October 27, 2010.