Kenneth Fuchs, a music composition professor at the University of Connecticut, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Classical, for his album “Cloud Slant.”
The album, which was released in July by Chandos Records, features conductor John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London in world premiere performances of four orchestral pieces by Fuchs: “Cloud Slant (Concerto for Orchestra, After Three Paintings by Helen Frankenthaler),” “Pacific Visions (for String Orchestra),” “Quiet in the Land (Poem for Orchestra),” and “Solitary the Thrush (Concerto for C & Alto Flute and Orchestra)” with soloist Adam Walker.
This is the fifth time Fuchs has been Grammy nominated. He won the 2019 Best Classical Compendium Award for his album, “Piano Concerto, ‘Spiritualist’/Poems of Life/Glacier/Rush,” recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra for Naxos Records.
“I am profoundly grateful to the voting members of the Recording Academy who supported ‘Cloud Slant,’” Fuchs said. “Several hundred classical music recordings were submitted by record labels in both the United States and Europe to the Recording Academy for Grammy Award consideration in the classical field.”
The award winners will be announced Feb. 4.
