Composer Alive Album Submitted to the Grammy Awards

For Your Consideration

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble,
Best Classical Compendium,
Best Engineered Album
Best Instrumental Composition

ACM’s Composer Alive album features music we commissioned over the last twelve years as part of our innovative Composer Alive commissioning project. The project allows a composer to write a new piece with our ensemble in real time by sending small installments that we record and post as they are received.  The album features seven pieces by Jane O’Leary, Gabriela Ortiz, Alexandre Lunsqui, Agnieszka Stulginska, Vid Smooke, Will Rowe and Arshia Samsaminia performed by our stellar ensemble Palomar and recorded by Grammy-nominated engineer Mary Mazurek.

CREDITS

Music composed by Jane O’Leary, Gabriela Ortiz, Alexandre Lunsqui, Agnieszka Stulginska, Vid Smooke, Will Rowe and Arshia Samsaminia

Music Performed by Palomar
Alyson Berger – cello
Sixto Fraco – viola
Cleo Goldberg – percussion
Christie Miller – clarinets
Trevor Patricia Watkin – flutes
Amy Wurtz – piano
Henry Zheng – violin

Recorded by Mary Mazurek at the Music Institute of Chicago

Mixed and Mastered by Mary Mazurek and David Wetzel

Cover Image by Penn Eastburn

Album Design by Tod Lippy

Released on Invisible Cities Records, a Production of Access Contemporary Music