The list of 2012 Juno nominees was recently announced, and there is a very strong McGill presence among those honoured. We extend our warm congratulations to all of the extremely talented nominees, and we wish you all the best of luck at the award ceremonies on April 1!
Arcade Fire (incl. Win Butler, BA’04) — Juno Fan Choice Award
Sam Roberts Band (incl. Sam Roberts, BA’98, and James Hall, BA’98) — Group of the Year
Sam Roberts Band — Rock Album of the Year
Braids (three McGill students in the band) — New Group of the Year
Braids — Alternative Album of the Year
Francois Bourassa (BMus’85) Quartet — Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year
Philip Dwyer Orchestra featuring Mark Fewer (Fewer is part of the String Area’s teaching staff at the Schulich School of Music) — Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year
Martin Solveig and Dragonette (incl. Dan Kurtz, BA’93) — Dance Recording of the Year
Jeff Wolpert, MMus’98 — Recording Engineer of the Year
New Orford String Quartet (incl. Jonathan Crow, BMus’98 and Schulich instructors Andrew Wan and Brian Manker) — Classical Album of the Year: Solo or Chamber Music
Marie-Josee Lord, Orchestre Metropolitan, Giuseppe Pietraroia, LMus’88, BMus’89, MMus’92 — Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral Performance
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Daniel Taylor, LMus’92 — Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral Performance
Socalled (Josh Dolgin, BA’00) — World Music Album of the Year
Jose Lourenco, BA’01 — Video of the Year
February 8th, 2012 at 11:52 pm
just to note that Changing Seasons (Mark Fewer) was also premiered at McGill in the fall of 2010.
February 9th, 2012 at 12:28 am
Arcade Fire also has Regine Chassagne in it, a product of the Music faculty of McGill. Also, Francois Bourassa’s entire quartet except the saxophonist are McGill trained musicians. Phil Dwyer’s orchestra has BMus saxophonist Steve Kaldestadt in it as well. No doubt there are others who I have missed, but I happened to teach those ones while I was on the teaching staff at McGill.