9 Grammy Award winners at the Philharmonie

The Grammy Award 2011 ceremony took place yesterday evening. Did you know that nine of this year's winners already were or will soon be at the Philharmonie?

Best New Artist:
Esperanza Spalding, who was our guest in october 2010.

Best Jazz Vocal Album:
Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee
Dee Dee Bridgewater gave her concert at the Philharmonie on April 13th 2010

Best Improvised Jazz Solo:
Herbie Hancock (at the Philharmonie 08.10.2008)

Best Latin Jazz Album:
Chucho Valdés And The Afro-Cuban Messengers.  Chucho Valdés will be at the Phil on May 9th 2011

Best Classical Album:
Riccardo Muti with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will open the new season 2011/12!

Best Choral Performance:
Riccardo Muti with the Chicago Syymphony Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Chorus

Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with orchestra
Mitsuko Uchida (At the Philharmonie on 18.11.2008; 27.10.2009 and 13.05.2010)

Best Small Ensemble Performance:
Dinastia Borja with Jordi Savall (Conductor) ( at the Philharmonie on January 21th 2011)

Best Classical Vocal Performance:
Cecilia Bartoli (at the Philharmonie on 14.11.2010)

Well, congratulations to all of them!

Didier