Greek Violinist Leonidas Kavakos Nominated for Grammy Award
Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos is on the list of nominations for the Grammy Music Awards this year, following the well-received release of a Beethoven symphony work earlier this year.
The Grammy Awards are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry. They are regarded by many as the most prestigious and significant awards in the music industry worldwide.
The “Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 4 And Op. 97, “Archduke” (Sony Classical) was recorded with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Emmanuel Ax, is up for Best Chamber/Small Ensemble Performance.
Released in March, the album has received particularly warm reviews. The three leading soloists presented their work at a concert in Herodeion in June, as part of the Athens-Epidavros Festival.
Leonidas Kavakos carreer leads him to the Grammys
Born in Athens, Leonidas Kavakos has won several international violin competition prizes, including the Sibelius, Paganini, Naumburg, and Indianapolis competitions. He is an Onassis Foundation scholar. He has also recorded for record labels such as Sony/BMG and BIS.
As a conductor, he was an artistic director of the Camerata Salzburg and has been a guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra.
In 2016 Kavakos, took to the stage of the Lincoln Center of Manhattan to conduct the New York Philharmonic. The last time a Greek musician stood at the podium of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra was in 1960 when Dimitris Mitropoulos took to the stage.
The Beatles among the nominees for Grammy Awards
The nominees for the 2025 Grammy Awards were revealed last Friday. Beyoncé added to her all-time record number of Grammy nominations with 11, followed by Kendrick Lamar, Charli XCX and Billie Eilish with seven nods each. Beyoncé now has a career total 99 Grammy nominations – more than any other artist – but she’s not yet won the Recording Academy’s top prize, album of the year.
The Beatles – “Now and Then” has been nominated as record of the year. The song was 45 years in the making. An original John Lennon recording was given to the then-surviving Beatles by Yoko Ono in the early 1990s as they assembled their Anthology project.
While Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr completed recording on the Lennon songs ‘Free As A Bird’ and ‘Real Love’, they abandoned work on ‘Now and Then’, in part because of the technical limitations of the time.
After several hints over the years, the advances in de-mixing technology used during the Get Back documentary series meant that McCartney and Starr could finally finish off the song, which was finally heard on November 2, 2023.
The song has been nominated in two categories at the 67th Grammy Awards, due to take place at the Crypto.com Arena in LA on February 2, 2025: Best Rock Performance and Record of the Year.
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