At the 57th Annual Grammy Awards held on February 8, 2015, Sam Smith won the first four Grammy Awards of his career and Beck took home the prestigious award for Album Of The Year for Morning Phase. Other big winners included Beyoncé, Rosanne Cash and Pharrell Williams, who won three Grammy Awards each.
Mix magazine congratulates all of the audio production professionals—producers, recording engineers, mix engineers and mastering engineers—who were named as part of this year’s Grammy Award winning projects:
Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical
Max Martin
- Bang Bang (Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj) (S)
- Break Free (Ariana Grande Featuring Zedd) (S)
- Dark Horse (Katy Perry Featuring Juicy J) (S)
- Problem (Ariana Grande Featuring Iggy Azalea) (S)
- Shake It Off (Taylor Swift) (S)
- Unconditionally (Katy Perry) (S)
Producer Of The Year, Classical
Judith Sherman
- Beethoven: Cello & Piano Complete (Fischer Duo)
- Brahms By Heart (Chiara String Quartet)
- Composing America (Lark Quartet)
- Divergence (Plattform K + K Vienna)
- The Good Song (Thomas Meglioranza)
- Mozart & Brahms: Clarinet Quintets (Anthony McGill & Pacifica Quartet)
- Snapshot (American Brass Quintet)
- Two X Four (Jaime Laredo, Jennifer Koh, Vinay Parameswaran & Curtis 20/21 Ensemble)
- Wagner Without Words (Ll_r Williams)
Record Of The Year
Stay With Me (Darkchild Version)
Sam Smith
Steve Fitzmaurice, Rodney Jerkins & Jimmy Napes, producers; Steve Fitzmaurice, Jimmy Napes & Steve Price, engineers/mixers; Tom Coyne, mastering engineer
Label: Capitol Records; Publishers: Sony/ATV Songs LLC obo Naughty Worlds Ltd./Universal-Polygram Int. Tunes, Inc. obo Salli Isaak Songs, Ltd./Universal Polygram Int. Tunes, Inc. obo Method Paperwork
Album Of The Year
Morning Phase
Beck
Beck Hansen, producer; Tom Elmhirst, David Greenbaum, Florian Lagatta, Cole Marsden Greif-Neill, Robbie Nelson, Darrell Thorp, Cassidy Turbin & Joe Visciano, engineers/mixers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer
Label: Capitol Records
Best Historical Album
The Garden Spot Programs, 1950
Colin Escott & Cheryl Pawelski, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer (Hank Williams)
Label: Omnivore Recordings
Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical
Morning Phase (Beck)
Tom Elmhirst, David Greenbaum, Florian Lagatta, Cole Marsden Greif-Neill, Robbie Nelson, Darrell Thorp, Cassidy Turbin & Joe Visciano, engineers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer
Label: Capitol Records
Best Surround Sound Album
Beyoncé
Elliot Scheiner, surround mix engineer; Bob Ludwig, surround mastering engineer; Beyoncé Knowles, surround producer
Label: Columbia Records
Best Engineered Album, Classical
Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem; Symphony No. 4; The Lark Ascending
Michael Bishop, engineer; Michael Bishop, mastering engineer (Robert Spano, Norman Mackenzie, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus)
Label: ASO Media
Best Opera Recording
Charpentier: La Descente D’Orphée Aux Enfers
Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, conductors; Aaron Sheehan; Renate Wolter-Seevers, producer (Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble; Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble)
Label: CPO
Technical Grammy Award
This Special Merit Award is presented by vote of The Recording Academy’s National Trustees to individuals and/or companies who have made contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field.
Ray Kurzweil
Awarded: 2015
From www.kurzweilai.net: Ray Kurzweil received the 2015 Technical Grammy Award on February 7, 2015 (presented by producer Mike Clink) for his lifetime of work in the field of music technology.
One of his primary inventions paved the way for re-creating acoustic instruments with electronic equivalents.
“Ray Kurzweil is a best selling author, futurist, computer scientist and inventor,” notes the Grammy Foundation. “He is a current director of engineering at Google.
“Kurzweil is credited as the principal innovator of omni-font optical character recognition, text to speech synthesis and speech recognition technology. He founded Kurzweil Music Systems in 1982 and in 1984 introduced the Kurzweil K250, the first computer based instrument that could realistically re-create the musical response of a grand piano and other orchestra instruments. PBS featured Ray Kurzweil in the hit series They Made America. Ray Kurzweil’s early 1980s successes included synthesizers he engineered with the creative input of musician Stevie Wonder.”
See this full list of 57th Annual Grammy Award winners at www.grammy.com/nominees.
