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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)
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
Muti conducts Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet”
November 9, 2014
Renée Fleming “Christmas in New York”
November 9, 2014
David Frost is the Kevin Bacon of Classical Music
November 9, 2014
Otello with Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
October 27, 2013
Jonathan Biss Beethoven Sonatas
October 27, 2013
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
Andrea Bocelli in Central Park
July 12, 2011
Carnegie at 120
March 14, 2011
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