December 15, 2008
Grammy nod to Eastman’s Paul O’Dette
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Paul O'Dette
An Eastman professor and two Eastman graduates have made the cut for the 51st Grammy Awards—and all three will compete in the same category. The awards will be presented Februrary 8 in Los Angeles.
Paul O’Dette, professor of lute at the Eastman School of Music and an internationally respected performer and scholar of Renaissance and Baroque music, has been nominated for his fifth Grammy Award. He is up against soprano Renée Fleming ’83E (MM) and tenor Anthony Dean Griffey ’01E (MM) in the Best Opera Recording category.
O’Dette, who won a Grammy in 1996 for a CD of Purcell songs with Sylvia McNair, was nominated for Lully: Psyche. O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs, who serve as music directors of the Boston Early Music Festival, are the conductors on the album. Last year, O’Dette received a Best Opera Recording nomination for Lully: Thésée. He also earned Grammy nominations in 2005 for conducting Conradi’s Ariadne and in 2006 for his solo lute CD Bacheler: The Bacheler’s Delight.
Fleming performs the role of Tatiana on the nominated DVD recording of Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin produced by the Metropolitan Opera. She has won Grammys for her albums The Beautiful Voice and Bel Canto. Griffey is Jimmy on another nominated DVD, Weill: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, produced by the Los Angeles Opera.
Griffey is also up for a Grammy in the Best Classical Album category, which is presented to the artist and album producer, for the same DVD recording.
In addition, several Eastman alumni perform with bands that are up for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album. Rick Shaw ’81E (MM), Bernie Dresel ’83E, and Brain Scanlon ’81E, ’83E (MM) are on Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band nominated recording Act Your Age, while Lew Soloff ’65E performs with Carla Bley and Her Remarkable Big Band on the nominated CD Appearing Nightly.
Another Eastman alumnus, Alan Pierson ’06E (DMA), is a conductor on the CD Reich: Daniel Variations, one of the albums bringing Judith Sherman a Classical Producer of the Year nomination.
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