Recordings by Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic earned six nominations on the 2025 Grammys on Friday, with Dudamel and the orchestra selecting one for orchestral efficiency for his or her work on composer Gabriela Ortiz’s “Revolución Diamantina.”
That first full album of Ortiz’s orchestral works racked up quite a few honors, together with one for up to date classical composition, an award given to the composer. Other nominations for recording Ortiz’s work on the LA Phil had been for Engineered Classical Album, Classical Producer of the Year (Dmitriy Lipay), and Classical Compendium.
Composer John Adams’ opera “Girls of the Golden West,” carried out by the LA Phil and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, earned nominations for recording of works and classical album making; it was additionally cited as a part of Lipay’s nomination for Classical Producer of the Year.
In the orchestral efficiency class, Dudamel and the LA Phil face off towards Marin Alsop and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra for Adams’ “City Noir,” commissioned by the LA Phil for Dudamel’s first gala. Others within the class embody conductor JoAnn Falletta, who made a reputation for herself as music director of the Long Beach Symphony, nominated with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; former LA Phil principal visitor conductor Susanna Mälkki, appointed to conduct the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra; and Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony.
In the classical instrumental solo class, the Los Angeles ensemble Wild Up’s recording of “Eastman: The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc” earned nominations for soloist Seth Parker Woods and conductor Christopher Rountree.
Dudamel, who will depart for the New York Philharmonic in 2026, already has 5 Grammy Awards after profitable one final 12 months with the orchestra for a efficiency of “Hades: Dante.”
A triumph for Dudamel on the 67th Grammy Awards would give him his sixth win out of seven nominations. Other wins embody choral efficiency for “Mahler: Symphony No. 8, ‘Symphony of a Thousand’” on the sixty fourth Grammys and orchestral efficiency for “Ives: Complete Symphonies” on the 63rd Grammys. He received his first statuette on the 54th Grammy Awards for Orchestral Performance “Brahms: Symphony No. 4.”
The 67th Annual Grammy Awards will happen on February 2 on the Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles. It will air dwell on CBS and Paramount+.
