Juno Nominations for Schulich Alumni
The nominees for the 2016 JUNO Awards were announced by The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) at a press conference in Toronto yesterday morning. Schulich alumni and faculty who are up for awards including:
INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR Legacy Live Jens Lindeman, BMus'88 (Independent)
CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: SOLO OR CHAMBER ENSEMBLE Berlin Sonatas, Elinor Frey DMus'12 (Passacaille*Naxos); Mendelssohn: Op. 44 nos. 1, 2, Cecilia String Quartet GDDP'11
CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: LARGE ENSMEBLE OR SOLOIST(S) WITH LARGE ENSEMBLE ACCOMPANIMENT Symphony and New Works for Organ and Orchestra Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal with Olivier Latry and Jean Willy Kunz (Analekta*Select); Tomasi, Desenclos, Jolivet: French Trumpet Concertos Paul Merkelo, faculty, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, (Analekta*Select)
CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: VOCAL OR CHORAL PERFORMANCE Vivaldi: Sacred Music, Vol.4 Claire de Sévigné, BMus'09, Maria Soulis and Aradia Ensemble (Naxos)
CLASSICAL COMPOSITION OF THE YEAR The Afar Jordan Pal, BMus'05 Independent; Bookburners Nicole Lizée, MMus'01 (Centrediscs*Naxos)
The 45th annual JUNO Awards will be broadcast on CTV on Sunday, April 3, 2016.
