CCM talent featured on several Grammy Award-winning albums
Five alumni worked on Grammy winning projects, along with one faculty member and one current student
The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences presented the 67th Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 2, 2025, and several of this year's Grammy Award-winning projects featured CCM talent.
Learn more about our Grammy winners below, and view our full list of 2025 Grammy nominees here.
Best Musical Theater Album
CCM alumna Shoshana Bean (BFA Musical Theatre '99) received a Grammy for her role as a principal vocalist on the Original Broadway Cast recording of Hell's Kitchen, which was awarded Best Musical Theatre Album (Grammy Category 38). CCM alumnus Nolan Monigold (BM Commercial Music Production '21) worked as assistant mixing engineer on that cast recording.
Best Choral Performance
CCM alumnus Donald Nally (BM Music Education ‘82) and his ensemble, the professional chamber choir known as The Crossing, received the Best Choral Performance Award (Grammy Category 89) for their album Ochre. Ochre represents Nally and The Crossing’s tenth Grammy nomination in nine consecutive years—setting a record in the Best Choral Performance category. The group also won the award in 2023, 2019 and 2018. The Crossing also includes fellow CCM alum Michael Jones (BM Jazz Studies '12), who is a longtime member of the choral ensemble.
Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media
CCM Professor of Choral Studies Joe Miller contributed to the film soundtrack Maestro: Music By Leonard Bernstein, which won the Grammy for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media (Grammy Category 70). Miller prepared the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir, which was then conducted by Maestro director and star Bradley Cooper for a sequence in the film. Current CCM doctoral student Sergey Tkachenko was also featured in the film and its soundtrack as a member of that choir.
Best Instrumental Composition
Bright Shiny Things, a record label founded by CCM alumnus Louis Levitt (BM Double Bass '01, AD Double Bass '05), won the Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition (Grammy Category 84) for the Akropolis Reed Quintet, pianist Pascal Le Boeuf and drummer Christian Euman’s performance of Le Boeuf’s composition “Strands." That piece is featured on the album Are We Dreaming the Same Dream? This is the label's first Grammy win after earning 11 previous nominations for its artists.
The 67th Annual Grammy Awards honored recordings released during the eligibility year of Sept. 16, 2023, through Aug. 30, 2024.
More than a dozen CCM alumni, faculty and students were involved in Grammy-nominated projects this year. Learn more about CCM's 2025 Grammy Award nominees.
Notice an omission in our round up of the 67th Grammy Award winners? Please send any omissions to ccmpr@uc.edu and we will update our coverage!
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Featured image at top: Grammy Award trophies are seen in the press room during the 64th Annual Grammy Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on April 3, 2022. Photo/Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images
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