True Concord Voices & Orchestra landed its second Grammy nomination on Friday for "A Dream So Bright: Choral Music of Jake Runestad," released in August. The Tucson ensemble is up for the 2025 Best Choral Performance Grammy for the album, which featured pianist Jeffrey Biegel . True Concord founder and music director Eric Holtan conducted the performance.
Get a sneak peek at a recording session of “Dreams of the Fallen” and “Earth Symphony” with True Concord Voices & Orchestra. The nod follows True Concord's 2015 Best Choral Performance nomination for “Far in the Heavens: Choral Music of Stephen Paulus.” The ensemble, now in its 21st season, lost, but Paulus won a Best Contemporary Classical Composition Grammy for the album's centerpiece "Prayers & Remembrances," commissioned by True Concord in 2011 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
Paulus, who died in 2014 , was awarded posthumously. True Concord is the only classical music ensemble from Tucson to ever get a Grammy nomination. "We're thrilled with this one," Holtan said Friday.
"I definitely thought it was worthy of consideration. Jake is one of America's rising stars as a composer and he wrote two incredible pieces of music on two critically important topics." The album, on Reference Recordings , garnered critical acclaim , with Fanfare saying it had "exceptionally fine music that has something original and important to say.
" Gramophone said the album makes “a forceful social statement ...
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