Westenra and Terfel
up for Brits
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Westenra
began singing at an early age
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Welsh bass baritone Bryn Terfel and teenage singer Hayley
Westenra lead the nominations for the fifth classical
Brit awards next month. Violinists Nigel Kennedy and Vanessa
Mae, and the world's first opera band Amici Forever will
join the ceremony on 26 May at London's Royal Albert Hall.
TV
news presenter Katie Derham returns for a fourth year
to host the ceremony.
New
Zealand-born Westenra, 17, has two nominations, as does
Terfel - including one for male artist of the year.
Also
receiving two nominations is composer and conductor John
Rutter, whose Distant Land album is nominated for contemporary
music award and ensemble/orchestral album of the year.
Five
of the awards will be voted for by The Classical Brit
awards voting academy, which includes the media, members
of the Musicians Union, promoters, industry executives
and orchestra leaders.
Listeners
of Classic FM will be invited to vote for the album of
the year award, and a panel of media will decide the winner
of the critics' award.
Nominees:
Album
of the year (longlist):
Aled
Jones - Higher, Amici Forever - The Opera Band, Bryn Terfel
- Bryn, Denise Leigh/Jane Gilchrist - Operatunity, Dominic
Miller - Shapes, Hayley Westenra - Pure, Lesley Garrett
- So Deep Is The Night, Luciano Pavarotti - Ti Adoro,
Ludovico Einaudi - Echoes The Collection, Myleene
Klass - Moving On
Contemporary
music award:
Gidon
Kremer - Happy Birthday, John Rutter - Distant Land, Phillip
Glass - The Hours
Female
artist of the year:
Cecilia
Bartoli, Hayley Westenra, Marin Alsop
Male
artist of the year:
Bryn
Terfel, Sir Colin Davis, Nigel Kennedy
Ensemble/orchestral
album of the year:
John
Rutter/RPO - Distant Land, New College Oxford Choir/Higginbottom
- Bach, St John Passion, Sir Simon Rattle/VPO - Beethoven
Symphonies
Young
British classical performer:
Catrin
Finch, Colin Currie, Daniel Hope Critics' awards:
LSO/Jansons
: Mahler/Symphony no.6, LSO (Harmonia Mundi), Rattle/VPO
: Beethoven/Complete Symphonies, Vengerov/LSO/Rostropovitch:
Britten/Walton/Violin Concerto
Outstanding
contribution to music award: In the gift of the BPI
Council Renée Fleming
Source:
BBC
News | Infolink thanks to Roger Mansbridge
It's
going to be a helluva night! (26th May, not tonight!)
Roger
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