Vieaux and Bishop bring Grammy Awards home

February 9, 2015 by Daniel Hathaway

Guitarist Jason Vieaux and engineer Michael Bishop were among the winners of the 2015 Grammy Awards, announced on February 8 at ceremonies in Los Angeles.

Vieaux won “Best Classical Solo Performance” for his Azica Records CD, Play. Bishop won “Best Engineered Album, Classical” for his recording, mixing and mastering of the ASO Media release, Ralph Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem, Symphony No. 4 and The Lark Ascending, (Robert Spano, Norman Mackenzie, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus).

The award marks the first nomination and Grammy award for Vieaux, who is head of the guitar department at the Cleveland Institute of Music and co-founder of the guitar department at the Curtis Institute of Music. His latest CD, Together, a collaboration with harpist Yolanda Kondonassis, has just been released on the Azica label.

Bishop, who is founding partner and recording engineer/producer at Five/Four Productions in Shaker Heights, has now amassed a total of ten career Grammy awards, including five awards for “Best Engineered Album, Classical.” The Five/Four team was nominated in two other categories in this year’s awards as well.

Published on ClevelandClassical.com February 10, 2015.

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Daniel Hathaway founded ClevelandClassical.com in September, 2008, after a thirty-one year tenure as music director of Cleveland’s Trinity Cathedral, where he founded the Wednesday Noon Brownbag Concert Series and Trinity Chamber Orchestra. A graduate of Harvard College and the Episcopal Divinity School, he also studied historical musicology at Princeton and Harvard Universities. Before coming to Cleveland in 1977, he served as head of humanities at the Sunset Hill School in Kansas City and as head of arts at Groton School in Massachusetts. In Cleveland, he has served on the music staff of Cleveland Opera, Great Lakes Theater Festival, and the faculty of Laurel School. As an organist, Hathaway has played recitals in the U.S., England, France, Germany, and Austria. He team-teaches Music Journalism at Oberlin College and Conservatory and is a member of the Music Critics Association of North America.

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