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The Recording Academy announced nominations for the 2025 GRAMMY Awards, with composers Gabriela Ortiz and John Adams among the nominees.

On November 8, the Recording Academy officially released the nominations for the 2025 GRAMMYs, which will take place on Sunday, February 2, at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The Latin GRAMMY Award Ceremony took place on November 14, where Best Classical Album was awarded to LA Phil’s Fandango, featuring Ginastera’s Estancia with baritone soloist Gustavo Castillo.

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Gabriela Ortiz’s portrait album Revolución Diamantina, featuring the LA Phil and Gustavo Dudamel, received four nominations, including Best Contemporary Classical Composition and Best Orchestral Performance. The album features three recent acclaimed Ortiz works, all commissioned and premiered by the LA Phil: Altar de Cuerda featuring violinist María Dueñas, Kauyumari, and Revolución diamantina.

Girls of the Golden West, John Adams’s Gold Rush opera, was nominated for Best Opera Recording. Recorded live from Disney Hall, John Adams conducts the LA Phil, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Julia Bullock, Davóne Tines, Paul Appleby, and more.

Read on for all the nominated projects that feature music by Boosey & Hawkes composers:

John Adams
Girls of the Golden West (LA Phil, Los Angeles Master Chorale, John Adams)
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  • Best Opera Recording
  • Best Engineered Album, Classical

John Adams: City Noir, Fearful Symmetries & Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance
(ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop)
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  • Best Orchestral Performance

Unsuk Chin
The Unsuk Chin Edition (Berliner Philharmoniker)
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  • Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package

Gabriela Ortiz
Revolución Diamantina (Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, María Dueñas)
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  • Best Contemporary Classical Composition
  • Best Classical Compendium
  • Best Orchestral Performance
  • Best Engineered Album, Classical

Photo: John Adams by Deborah O'Grady, Gabriela Ortiz by Mara Arteaga, Unsuk Chin by Priska Ketterer

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