staff report
When the 2023 Grammy nominees were announced this week, names were called out of the music department at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem.
Becca Stevens (’02), a Winston-Salem alumnus, on the Becca Stevens and Attacca track ‘2 + 2 = 5’ with Nathan Schram, husband of the Attucka Quartet, Best Arrangement, It was nominated for Instrumental and Vocal. A quartet album released in March. Stevens, who studied guitar in her program in high school, was nominated for her fifth studio in 2021 with a track from her album ‘WONDERBLOOM’, produced and engineered by her.
Tasha Warren (’89), a high school graduate of the Clarinet Program, won two awards in the Best Instrumental Composition category for “African Tales” and “Snapshots,” tracks from her album Ourself Behind Ourself with Dave Eggar. got a nomination. With Warren on bass clarinet and Egger on cello, the project will premiere chamber works by six dynamic and influential composers, including Paquito Dribera and Pascal Le Boeuf.
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Alumnus Joanna Gates (’04), as a member of The Crossing, was nominated for Best Choral Performance on the album Born, conducted by Donald Nully, Edie Hill and Michael Gilbertston. Gates, who learned her voice, won two Grammy Awards for her The Crossing in 2018 and 2019.
High school violin graduate Garrett Fischbach (’98) was nominated for best choral performance in “Verdi: Requiem – Met Remembers 9/11” as a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus it was done.
Alumni and tenor Chase Taylor (’07) was nominated for Best Opera Recording for his role as Nash in Terrence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones.” This is his second opera for Blanchard, who has won his six Grammy Awards.
Baritone Joshua Conyers (’15), an alumnus of UNCSA’s AJ Fletcher Opera Institute, was nominated for Best Opera Recording for his role of Reginald in Anthony Davis’s “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.”
