SKANEATELES FESTIVAL

Grammy Award Winners

MUSICIANS THAT HAVE APPEARED AT THE SKANEATELES FESTIVAL HAVE WON

a total of 83 Grammy Awards . . . led by Béla Fleck (with 17) and many more have been nominated!

Béla Fleck, banjo

17 wins, 42 nominations

SkanFest: 2023, 2019

Fun Fact: Béla Fleck has been nominated in more different categories than any instrumentalist in Grammy® history.

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2024 Best Global Music Performance: Pashto (w/ Edgar Meyer & Zakir Hussain Featuring Rakesh Chaurasia)

2024: Best Contemporary Instrumental Album: As We Speak (w/ Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer, Featuring Rakesh Chaurasia)

2022 Best Bluegrass Album: My Bluegrass Heart

2016 Best Folk Album: Béla Fleck And Abigail Washburn

2012 Instrumental Composition: Life In Eleven

2011 Contemporary World Music Album: Throw Down Your Heart, Africa Sessions Part 2: Unreleased Tracks

2010 Best Contemporary World Music Album: Throw Down Your Heart: Tales From The Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3 – Africa Sessions

2010 Best Pop Instrumental Performance: Throw Down Your Heart

2009 Best Pop Instrumental Album: Jingle All The Way

2007 Best Contemporary Jazz Album: The Hidden Land

2002 Best Classical Crossover Album: Perpetual Motion – Scarlatti, Bach, Debussy, Chopin

2002 Best Instrumental Arrangement: Claude Debussy “Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum” From Children’s Corner

2001 Best Contemporary Jazz Album: Outbound

2001 Best Country Instrumental Performance: Leaving Cottondale

1999 Best Instrumental Composition: Almost 12

1997 Best Pop Instrumental Performance: The Sinister Minister

1996 Best Country Instrumental Performance: Hightower

Wynton Marsalis, trumpet

9 wins, 32 nominations

SkanFest: 2024, 2019, 2016

Fun Fact: Wynton Marsalis is the only musician to have won a Grammy® Award in both jazz and classical categories in the same year.

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2000 Best Spoken Word Album For Children: Listen To The Storyteller

1987 Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group: Marsalis Standard Time – Volume I

1986 Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group: J Mood

1985 Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group: Black Codes From The Underground

1985 Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist: Black Codes From The Underground

1984 Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist Or Soloists (With Orchestra): Wynton Marsalis-Edita Gruberova-Handel, Purcell, Etc.

1984 Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist: Hot House Flowers

1983 Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist Or Soloists (With Orchestra) Haydn: Trumpet Concerto In E Flat/L. Mozart: Trumpet Concerto In D/Hummel: Trumpet Concerto In E Flat

1983 Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist: Think Of One

Eugene Drucker, violin

9 wins, 13 nominations

SkanFest: 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001

Fun Fact: In 1933 Germany, Eugene Drucker’s father, Ernest, was a promising young Jewish violinist who left the stage midway through a Brahms concerto as a form of protest against the new Nazi regime.

80 years later, Eugene completed his father’s work with a tearful rendition of the Brahms Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77, in Israel.

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2010 Best Chamber Music Performance: Intimate Letters

2007 Best Chamber Music Performance: Intimate Voices

2006 Best Chamber Music Performance: Mendelssohn: The Complete String Quartets

2001 Best Chamber Music Performance: Shostakovich: The String Quartets

2001 Best Classical Album: Shostakovich: The String Quartets

1998 Best Chamber Music Performance: Beethoven: The String Quartets

1994 Best Chamber Music Performance: Ives: String Quartets Nos. 1, 2/Barber: String Quartet Op. 11 (American Originals)

1990 Best Chamber Music Performance: Bartók: 6 String Quartets

1990 Best Classical Album: Bartók: 6 String Quartets

Christian McBride, bass

8 wins, 16 nominations

SkanFest: 2022

Fun Fact: Christian McBride has collaborated with some of the biggest names in music including jazz legends Freddie Hubbard, Chick Corea and Sonny Rollins; pop/rock stars Sting, Billie Eilish, Paul McCartney and Carly Simon; hip-hop/neo-soul artists The Roots, D’Angelo and Queen Latifah; and R&B icons Chaka Khan, Natalie Cole and the Godfather of Soul, himself, James Brown.

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2022 Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: For Jimmy, Wes And Oliver

2021 Best Jazz Instrumental Album: Trilogy 2

2018 Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: Bringin’ It

2016 Best Improvised Jazz Solo: Cherokee

2015 Best Jazz Instrumental Album: Trilogy

2012 Large Jazz Ensemble Album: The Good Feeling

2010 Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group: Five Peace Band – Live

2005 Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group: Illuminations

Edgar Meyer, bass

7 wins, 10 nominations

SkanFest: 1999

Fun Fact: In 2011, Edgar Meyer joined cellist Yo-Yo Ma, mandolinist Chris Thile, and fiddler Stuart Duncan for the Sony Masterworks recording “The Goat Rodeo Sessions” which was awarded the 2012 Grammy® Award for Best Folk Album.

see wins

2024 Best Global Music Performance: Pashto (w/ Edgar Meyer & Zakir Hussain Featuring Rakesh Chaurasia)

2024: Best Contemporary Instrumental Album: As We Speak (w/ Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer, Featuring Rakesh Chaurasia)

2015 Best Contemporary Instrumental Album: Bass & Mandolin

2012 Best Folk Album: The Goat Rodeo Sessions

2002 Best Classical Crossover Album: Perpetual Motion – Scarlatti, Bach, Debussy, Chopin

2002 Best Instrumental Arrangement: Claude Debussy “Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum” From Children’s Corner

2001 Best Classical Crossover Album: Appalachian Journey

Caroline Shaw, composer

4 wins, 7 nominations

SkanFest: works performed 2021, 2019, 2015

Fun Fact: Caroline Shaw’s, “Evergreen” was a Skaneateles Festival co-commissioned work. Its world premiere was at the Festival performed by the Dover Quartet in 2021. The piece won a Grammy® Award in 2023 for Best Small Ensemble Performance from the Attacca Quartet

see wins

2024 Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: Rough Magic, Roomful Of Teeth

2022 Best Contemporary Classical Composition: Shaw: Narrow Sea

2020 Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: Shaw: Orange

2014 Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: Roomful Of Teeth

Mark O’Connor, fiddle/ Mark O’Connor Band

3 wins, 9 nominations

SkanFest: 2020 (virtual), 2018

Fun Fact: Mark O’Connor was named Musician of the Year by the Country Music Association six years in a row from 1991–96.

In 2000, his Classical Crossover Album, Appalachian Journey, won a Grammy® in collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer.

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2017 Best Bluegrass Album: Coming Home

2001 Best Classical Crossover Album: Appalachian Journey

1992 Best Country Instrumental Performance: The New Nashville Cats

Hilary Hahn, violin

3 wins, 6 nominations

SkanFest: 2019, 2013, 2010, 1997-2005, 1992-1995

Fun Fact: Hilary Hahn first played at the Skaneateles Festival when she was 12 years old in 1992. In total, she has since performed with the Festival for 17 seasons!

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2015 Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: In 27 Pieces – The Hilary Hahn Encores

2009 Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra): Schoenberg/Sibelius: Violin Concertos

2003 Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra): Brahms/Stravinsky: Violin Concertos

Rhiannon Giddens, multi-instrumentalist

2 wins, 11 nominations

SkanFest: 2024, 2022

Fun Fact: A two-time Grammy® Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning singer and instrumentalist, MacArthur “Genius” grant recipient, and composer of opera, ballet, and film, Giddens has centered her work around the mission of lifting up people whose contributions to American musical history have previously been overlooked or erased, and advocating for a more accurate understanding of the country’s musical origins through art.

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2022 Best Folk Album: They’re Calling Me Home

2011 Traditional Folk Album: Genuine Negro Jig

David Zinman, conductor

2 wins, 8 nominations

SkanFest: 2019, 2017, 2004, 1995 1993, 1992, 1989, 1988, 1986, 1985

Fun Fact: David Zinman conducted the soundtrack of the 1993 film of the New York City Ballet production of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker.

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1998 Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (With Orchestra): Premieres – Cello Concertos (Works Of Danielpour, Kirchner, Rouse)

1998 Best Classical Album: Premieres – Cello Concertos (Works Of Danielpour, Kirchner, Rouse)

Larry Combs, clarinet

2 wins, 4 nominations

SkanFest: 1997, 1991, 1986, 1984, 1983

Fun Fact: Larry Combs is one of the world’s leading orchestral clarinetists, who has also been active in chamber music, and the Chicago jazz scene.

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2002 Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra): Strauss Wind Concertos – Horn Concerto; Oboe Concerto

1995 Best Chamber Music Performance: Beethoven/Mozart: Quintets (Chicago-Berlin)

Turtle Island String Quartet

2 wins, 4 nominations

SkanFest: 2008, 2005

Fun Fact: Turtle Island fuses the classical quartet esthetic with contemporary American musical styles including folk, bluegrass, swing, be-bop, funk, R&B, new age, rock, hip-hop, as well as music of Latin America and India.

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2008 Best Classical Crossover Album: A Love Supreme: The Legacy Of John Coltrane

2006 Best Classical Crossover Album: 4 + Four (with Ying Quartet)

Pacifica Quartet

2 wins, 3 nominations

SkanFest: 2005

Fun Fact: The Pacifica Quartet has proven itself the preeminent interpreter of string quartet cycles, harnessing the group’s singular focus and incredible stamina to portray each composer’s evolution, often over the course of just a few days.

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2021 Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: Contemporary Voices

2009 Best Chamber Music Performance: Carter, Elliott: String Quartets Nos. 1 And 5

Roomful of Teeth, vocal ensemble

2 wins, 3 nominations

SkanFest: 2015

Fun Fact: The year following Roomful of Teeth’s Grammy® Award win, they performed at the Skaneateles Festival. Among them included vocalist and composer, Caroline Shaw.

see wins

2024 Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: Rough Magic, Roomful Of Teeth

2014 Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: Roomful Of Teeth

Ying Quartet

1 win, 4 nominations

SkanFest: 2020 (virtual), 2013, 2012, 2010, 2007, 2005

Fun Fact: David Ying, part of the Ying Quartet, and his wife Elinor Freer, were Artistic Directors of the Skaneateles Festival from 2005 to 2014.

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2006 Best Classical Crossover Album: 4 + Four (with Turtle Island String Quartet)

Silkroad Ensemble

1 win, 3 nominations

SkanFest: 2022

Fun Fact: Yo-Yo Ma conceived Silkroad in 1998 as a reminder that even as rapid globalization resulted in division, it brought extraordinary possibilities for working together.

see wins

2017 Best World Music Album: Sing Me Home

2020 Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: Shaw: Orange

2014 Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: Roomful Of Teeth

Time for Three

1 wins, 1 nominations

SkanFest: 2021, 2020 (virtual), 2014, 2012, 2010

Fun Fact: In 2022, Time for Three won their first-ever Grammy® Award. It was also their first time being nominated. The picture to the left captures their excitement!

see wins

2022 Best Classical Instrumental Solo: Letters For The Future, Time for Three

Parker Quartet

1 win, 1 nominations

SkanFest: 2023, 2016, 2009

Fun Fact: The Parker Quartet’s name is inspired by the Parker House, a Boston historic landmark. This name celebrates the Quartet’s New England home, honors the wonderful food legacy of the Parker House (Boston Cream Pie, Parker House Rolls), and pays homage to the great history of artists and writers who often used the Parker House as a meeting point.

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2011 Chamber Music Performance: Ligeti: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2

Michael Cleveland, fiddle

1 wins, 5 nominations

SkanFest: 2023

Fun Fact: Despite being born completely blind and having a childhood ear infection that caused him to lose 80% of his hearing in one ear, Michael Cleveland learned to play violin when he was just 4 years old.

His skill was recognized at an early age, with appearances on the Grand Ole Opry, A Prairie Home Companion and before the United States Congress in his early teens.