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Congratulations to our GRAMMY nominees!

8VA clients Andy Akiho (composer and percussionist) and Gerard Schwarz (conductor) have been nominated for the GRAMMY® Awards. Congratulations!

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Marc-André Hamelin’s latest album featured on the new york times

Marc-André Hamelin, one of the supreme piano virtuosos of our time, landed a New York Times “5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now” review for the second time in 2024, this time for his recording of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier sonata.

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Leonard Slatkin Featured on Gramophone

Ahead of Leonard Slatkin’s 80th birthday on September 1, Gramophone magazine celebrates the illustrious American conductor with a full-length feature that covers his musical family, his time with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, his slew of recordings of unusual repertoire, and his American Sound Initiative.

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Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Davis and Bodhi Tree announce 2026 world premiere of bilingual ‘Pancho Rabbit’ opera

After a seven-year gestation, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis and San Diego’s Bodhi Tree Concerts have announced that Davis’ bilingual chamber-opera adaptation of the children’s book “Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant’s Tale” will receive its world premiere in January 2026 in both San Diego and Tijuana.

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Graeme Steele Johnson’s “forgotten sounds” project featured on the Washington Post

Our client Graeme Steele Johnson, a clarinetist and arranger who is also a member of the quintet WindSync — another client — talked to Michael Brodeur, the classical music critic from the Washington Post. Graeme found an unknown, unpublished octet by Charles Martin Loeffler and spent a year editing the manuscript. It was “an adventure in musical archaeology.”

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