SCP and CSO guest artists nominated for Grammys

January 28, 2025 — ‹ 5 min read

Several artists appearing (or represented) on this season’s Symphony Center Presents and CSO series are among the nominees for the 67th Annual Grammy Awards, which will be telecast live Feb. 2 on CBS (locally, WBBM-Channel 2, at 7 p.m.) and streamed on Paramount+.

The nominees are:

Best orchestral performance:

Adams, “City Noir, Fearful Symmetries” and "Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance”: Marin Alsop conducts the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (Alsop led the CSO on Oct. 10-11).

Ortiz, Revolución Diamantina: Gabriela Ortiz, composer, performed by Gustavo Dudamel leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Los Angeles Master Chorale (The Civic performed Ortiz’s Clara on Oct. 27-28).

Stravinsky, The Firebird: Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the San Francisco Symphony. (Salonen leads the CSO on Jan. 30-Feb. 4 and Feb. 6-8).

Best opera

Saariaho, Adriana Mater: Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus, with vocalists Fleur Barron, Axelle Fanyo, Nicholas Phan and Christopher Purves; Jason O’Connell, producer. (Salonen leads the CSO on Jan. 30-Feb. 4 and Feb. 6-8).

Best choral performance

“Ochre”: Donald Nally, conductor, The Crossing. (Nally prepares the Chicago Symphony Chorus in Haydn’s Mass in the Time of War, March 13-15.)

Best chamber music/small ensemble performance

"Beethoven for Three" — Symphony No. 4 and Op. 97, Archduke: Yo-Yo Ma, Leonidas Kavakos and Emanuel Ax (Kavakos appears with Daniil Trifonov in an SCP Chamber Music concert March 9, and Ax gives an SCP Piano recital on April 27).

Best classical instrumental solo

Víkingur Ólafsson: Bach, Goldberg Variations (SCP Piano, June 8).

Best contemporary classical composition

Coleman, Revelry: Valerie Coleman, composer (The Civic Orchestra of Chicago performed Coleman’s Fanfare for Uncommon Times on Jan. 19-20).

Ortiz, Revolución Diamantina: Gabriela Ortiz, composer, performed by Gustavo Dudamel leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Los Angeles Master Chorale (The Civic performed Ortiz’s Clara on Oct. 27-28).

Saariaho, Adriana Mater: Kaija Saariaho, composer, Esa-Pekka Salonen, conducts the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus, with vocalists Fleur Barron, Axelle Fanyo, Nicholas Phan and Christopher Purves. (Salonen leads the CSO on Jan. 30-Feb. 4 and Feb. 6-8).

Best Latin jazz album

Eliane Elias: “Time and Again" (Candid Records), (SCP Jazz, May 9).

Best boxed or special limited edition package

“Unsuk Chin”: Takahiro and Marek Polewski, art directors; performers Unsuk Chin and the Berlin Philharmonic (appeared in an SCP Special Concert on Nov. 26).

Best classical compendium

For a complete list of nominees, go to grammy.com.