Leila Adu-Gilmore’s collaboration with Cellist Amanda Gookin has been met with widespread acclaim, and the album featuring her work is now up for Grammy consideration in several categories:
BEST CLASSICAL INSTRUMENTAL SOLO
BEST CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL COMPOSITION
Dam mwen yo by Nathalie Joachim
BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, CLASSICAL
Garth MacAleavey, Mike Tierney
PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, CLASSICAL
Amanda Gookin, Louis Levitt
The seven works on this album were the first Forward Music Project commissions. This embodied performance is best summed up in The WholeNote album review, “It is the highest level of artistry that can realize a message, a story, or an emotion while seeming to have not performed it at all.”
Forward Music Project shares stories that need to be heard and brings new sounds to ears around the world.