Music Grammy Award nominees are stirring up fuss in classical music composers

Stateside nomination for Grammy Record Class awards in the classical music category amazes people in the industry, says British The Guardian magazine.

Especially a pianist known as a jazz musician Jon Batisten and violinist Curtis Stewartin Nominations for Grammy Classical Music Series Astonish Composers Interviewed by The Guardian Marc Neikrugia and Apostolos Paraskevasia. These have also sent letters of appeal to the award-winning Recording Academy.

According to Paraskevas, there have been ambiguities in the awards before, but this year the situation is particularly strange. “This jeopardizes the credibility of the Grammys,” Paraskevas writes in his letter.

Curtis Stewart is nominated for Best Classical Instrumental Solo on his crossover album Of Power, in which Stewart uses the themes of classical and jazz composers as the basis for his improvisations. Batiste is nominated for Best Contemporary Composition for his two-minute jazz-themed piano work Movement ’11.

Of course, there are also artists who are more clearly connected to classical music as candidates for Batiste and Stewart, for example, violinists in the series of instrumental solos. Jennifer Koh and Augustin Hadelichin a series of contemporary compositions for example Louis Andriessen and Caroline Shaw.

In all, Jon Batiste garnered 11 Grammy nominations, the most this year. In addition to the contemporary composition category, he is nominated for improvised jazz solo, American root music, and music video, among others.

Music at the awards gala, the categories of classical music are traditionally difficult for organizers. Indeed, their awards have often been shared with other genres of music considered marginal outside the actual awards gala. Most of the Grammy Awards will be presented in the afternoon before the televised awards gala.

For this reason, for example, he is a conductor-composer Esa-Pekka Salonen stated in 2009 that the Grammys are an insult to classical music.

This year, the Grammy Awards will be presented in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 3rd.

In Finland pianist Iiro Rantala announced in November 2011 boycotting the Emma Gala, because the awards for jazz, classical, ethno and children’s music were handed out at the press conference a month before the actual gala. At the gala next January, too Chisu and Tommy Lindgren criticize the division of award categories.

This year’s Emma Awards Gala will be held at the Helsinki Ice Rink on Friday, May 6th.