Upstate NY native wins Grammy Award for producer of the 12 months, classical

An Upstate New York native received her fifth Grammy Award on Sunday night time.

Elaine Martone, a Rochester native who graduated from Ithaca College, received Producer of the Year, Classical, on the 2024 Grammys. Martone acquired the gramophone-shaped prize on stage in the course of the pre-telecast awards ceremony.

Martone was honored for her work on a number of albums, together with “Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5″ by Franz Welser-Möst & The Cleveland Orchestra, Walker: Antifonys; Lilacs; Sinfonias Nos. 4 & 5 additionally by Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra and “Music From The Iranian Female Composers Association” by Sirventés, a gaggle that additionally options a number of Cleveland Orchestra members.

“They’re arguably the best orchestra on this planet, they usually’re proper right here,” stated Martone, who lives in Cleveland and works for the Telarc document label, based by her husband Robert Woods.

Sunday was Martone’s fifth Grammy win out of 12 profession nominations. She beforehand received Best Surround Sound Album for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s “Transmigrations” in 2010; Producer Of The Year, Classical, in 2007; Best Choral Performance for the ASO and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus’ “Berlioz: Requiem” in 2005; and Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group, for McCoy Tyner’s “Illuminations” in 2005. She additionally beforehand received a Latin Grammy Award.

Martone was born in Rochester and graduated from Ithaca College in 1979 with a bachelor of music diploma.

Other 2024 Grammy nominees with Upstate New York ties embrace Lana Del Rey, who grew up in Lake Placid. Del Rey is up for five Grammys, together with Album of the Year (“Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd”), Song of the Year (“A&W”), Best Pop Duo/Group Performance (“Candy Necklace” feat. Jon Batiste), Best Alternative Music Performance (“A&W”), and Best Alternative Music Album. Del Rey additionally seems on Taylor Swift’s “Midnights,” which is nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album and Album of the Year.

Lou Reed, a Syracuse University alumnus, was posthumously nominated for 2 Grammys this 12 months for “Words & Music, May 1965 – Deluxe Edition.” The album, recorded a 12 months after Reed graduated from SU, options early variations of The Velvet Underground songs and 7 beforehand unheard Reed compositions. “Words & Music” was up for Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package and Best Historical Album, however didn’t win both class.

The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra was nominated for Best Orchestral Performance for “Scriabin: Symphony No. 2; The Poem Of Ecstasy” with conductor JoAnn Falletta. It was the primary nomination for the Western New York orchestra, however Sunday’s prize went to the Los Angeles Philharmonic for “Adès: Dante.”

And “Evenings At The Village Gate: John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy (Live)” was nominated for Best Album Notes. The jazz legends’ beforehand unknown recording from 1961 was found in 2017 and launched with album notes by Ashley Kahn. Le Moyne College in Syracuse celebrates “Dolphy Day,” an unofficial vacation named after saxophonist/clarinetist/flautist Eric Dolphy. (A statue of him sits on the Le Moyne campus and the college promotes Dolphy Day as a celebration of Dolphy’s creativity.) It was the primary Grammy nomination for Dolphy, who died in 1964 at age 36. The Best Album Notes award went to “Written In Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos” (Various Artists) throughout Sunday’s pre-telecast ceremony.