We congratulate our ASMAC family and friends on their GRAMMY nominations. Best wishes!

Watch the 65th GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony live on Sunday, 5 February 2023, at 12:30pm PT at live.grammy.com and the live telecast at 5pm PT at the same link and on CBS. The majority of awards, including the arranger and composer awards, are presented during the earlier Premiere Ceremony. So, be sure to tune in to see your peers. Let us know if we missed an ASMAC member contribution to this year’s nominees. The full list of nominees is on the Recording Academy website.

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

• Higher by Michael Bublé
  ASMAC President Gayle Levant (harp), Edie Lehmann Boddicker (Choir Contractor and Background Vocals), Vanessa Freebairn-Smith (celli).
• When Christmas Comes Around… by Kelly Clarkson
  Joseph Trapanese, Orchestral Arrangements and Choir Conductor

Best Improvised Jazz Solo

• Cherokee/Koko — SWR Big Band, Magnus Lindgren & John Beasley with Camille Bertault feat. John Beasley with Chris Pot
  John Beasley, soloist

Best Jazz Vocal Album

• Fifty by The Manhattan Transfer With The WDR Funkhausorchester
  Andrew Kesler, arranger

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

• Live In Italy, Peter Erskine Trio

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

• Bird Lives, John Beasley, Magnus Lindgren & SWR Big Band
• Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra, Steven Feifke, Bijon Watson, Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra

Best Latin Jazz Album

• Rhythm & Soul — Arturo Sandoval

Best Tropical Latin Album

• Imágenes Latinas — Spanish Harlem Orchestra
  Oscar Hernández is the bandleader.

Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording

• All About Me!: My Remarkable Life In Show Business by Mel Brooks

Best Musical Theater Album

• Caroline, Or Change — John Cariani, Sharon D Clarke, Caissie Levy & Samantha Williams, principal vocalists; Van Dean, Nigel Lilley, Lawrence Manchester, Elliot Scheiner & Jeanine Tesori, producers; Jeanine Tesori, composer; Tony Kushner, lyricist (New Broadway Cast)
• Into The Woods (2022 Broadway Cast Recording) — Sara Bareilles, Brian d’Arcy James, Patina Miller & Phillipa Soo, principal vocalists; Rob Berman & Sean Patrick Flahaven, producers (Stephen Sondheim, composer & lyricist) (2022 Broadway Cast) Jonathan Tunick
• A Strange Loop — Jaquel Spivey, principal vocalist; Michael Croiter, Michael R. Jackson, Charlie Rosen & Rona Siddiqui, producers; Michael R. Jackson, composer & lyricist (Original Broadway Cast)

Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media

• Encanto (Various Artists)
  Germaine Franco, composer
• West Side Story (Various Artists) — Jeanine Tesori (Producer), David Newman (arranger, producer), Joe E. Rand (music editor), Irwin Kostal (original orchestration), Jonathan Tunick. Irwin Kostal was also a former ASMAC President.

Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media (Includes Film And Television)

• The Batman — Michael Giacchino, composer
• Encanto — Germaine Franco, composer
• No Time To Die — Hans Zimmer, composer
  John Altman arranged some of the brass sections and conducted them.

Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media

• Aliens: Fireteam Elite — Austin Wintory, composer
• Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn Of Ragnarok — Stephanie Economou, composer

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

• Main Titles (Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness) — Danny Elfman (Arranger),  Steve Bartek (Supervising Orchestrator), David Slonaker (Orchestrator), LC Powell (Choir).
• Scrapple From The Apple — John Beasley, arranger (Magnus Lindgren, John Beasley & The SWR Big Band Featuring Martin Aeur)

Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals

• Songbird (Orchestral Version) — Vince Mendoza, arranger (for musician Christine McVie, passed away 30 Nov 2022)

Best Engineered Album, Classical

• Bates: Philharmonia Fantastique – The Making Of The Orchestra — Shawn Murphy, Charlie Post & Gary Rydstrom, engineers; Michael Romanowski, mastering engineer (Edwin Outwater & Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
• Williams: Violin Concerto No. 2 & Selected Film Themes — Bernhard Güttler, Shawn Murphy & Nick Squire, engineers; Christoph Stickel, mastering engineer (Anne-Sophie Mutter, John Williams & Boston Symphony Orchestra)

Best Orchestral Performance

• John Williams — The Berlin Concert — John Williams, conductor (Berliner Philharmoniker)

Best Classical Compendium

• An Adoption Story — Starr Parodi & Kitt Wakeley; Jeff Fair, Starr Parodi & Kitt Wakeley, producers