CCM faculty and alumni nominated for 2025 Grammy Awards
Several of this year's Grammy-nominated recordings feature CCM talent
Story by CCM PR Graduate Assistant Lucy Evans
This year, four UC College-Conservatory of Music alumni and one current faculty member are among the nominees named for the 67th Annual Grammy Awards, which will be held in February of 2025.
Represented across four categories, the Bearcats specifically named in the Grammy's published list of nominees include CCM Associate Professor of Voice Elliot Madore along with alumni Kevin McCollum (BFA Musical Theatre ’84, HonDoc ’05), Fotina Naumenko (MM Voice ‘12, DMA Voice ‘18), Jeannette Sorrell (MM Orchestral Conducting, att. 1986-88) and Donald Nally (BM Music Education ‘82).
Madore is nominated for Best Opera Recording for Adams: Girls of the Golden West, recorded with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Los Angeles Master Chorale. The New York Times also highlighted Girls of the Golden West earlier this year. In 2016, Madore won a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording for Ravel: L’Enfant et les sortilèges; Shéhérazade, conducted by Seiji Ozawa.
McCollum is nominated for Best Musical Theater Album for the Original Broadway Cast recording of The Notebook, which McCollum produced. Notably, that album also features CCM alumnus Dorian Harewood, who was also nominated for a Tony Award this year for his role as Older Noah in The Notebook.
Naumenko is nominated for several projects: her album Newman: Bespoke Songs is nominated for Best Classical Vocal Solo, and she is also nominated as a soloist for Sheehan: Akathist (Best Choral Performance) and as a member of the Skylark Vocal Ensemble for Clear Voices in the Dark (Best Choral Performance).
Both Nally and Sorrell are nominated in the Best Choral Performance categories. Sorrell served as the conductor for Handel: Israel in Egypt, recorded with her ensemble Apollo’s Fire and Apollo’s Singers. Sorrell and Apollo’s Fire won the Grammy for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album in 2019, alongside tenor Karim Sulayman.
Nally led his ensemble The Crossing on their album Ochre. Ochre represents Nally and The Crossing’s tenth Grammy nomination in nine consecutive years—setting a record in the Best Choral Performance category. The group previously won the award in 2023, 2019 and 2018.
The 67th Grammy Awards will air live from Los Angeles on February 2, 2025.
Notice an omission in our round up of the 67th Grammy Award nominees? Please send any omissions to ccmpr@uc.edu and we will update our coverage!
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Lucy Evans is an artist diploma student studying Opera-Vocal Performance at CCM. She is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, and has performed as a young artist with the Santa Fe Opera and Opera Theatre of St Louis.
Featured image at top: Grammy Award trophies are seen in the press room during the 64th Annual Grammy Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on April 3, 2022. Photo/Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images
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