Paul O’Dette, professor of lute at the Eastman School of Music, and Eastman alumnus and mastering engineer Robert (Bob) Ludwig have received nominations in the 57th Annual Grammy Awards competition. Both are previous Grammy award winners.
This year, O’Dette is a nominee in the Best Opera Recording Category. Ludwig received a total of four nominations, two each in the Album of the Year and in the Best Engineered Album Non-Classical categories.
An internationally respected performer and scholar of Baroque and Renaissance music, O’Dette garnered his sixth Grammy nomination.
O’Dette and Stephen Stubbes, who serve as co-artistic directors of the Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF), are the conductors on the album Charpentier: La Descente d’Orphée aux enfers.
Ludwig is up for his work on Beck’s Morning Phase and Pharrell Williams’s Girl, which are competing for Album of the Year. Ludwig is also the mastering engineer on the albums Bass & Mandolin and Morning Phase, which are nominees for Best Engineered Album Non-Classical.
The winners of the 57th Annual GRAMMY Awards will be announced Feb. 8, 2015, at Staples Center in Los Angeles.
