Blanton Alspaugh

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Blanton Alspaugh (* 1959 ) is an American music producer for classical music. He is a four-time Grammy Award winner.

biography

Blanton Alspaugh earned a Bachelor in music education at the Tennessee Technological University and in 1987 a master's degree in orchestral conducting from the Shepherd School of Music of Rice University in Houston. From the mid-1990s he was responsible for the technical processing of classical recordings and in 1999 he joined the renowned production company Sound Mirror from Boston at. More and more often he took on the role of the responsible producer. Numerous productions by Soundmirror have been nominated and awarded for the most important US music award, the Grammy. In 2008 Alspaugh himself was nominated as Classical Producer of the Year, but came away empty-handed. In the following year, a work for which Alspaugh was jointly responsible for the first time received a prize: Spotless Rose: Hymns to the Virgin Mary by the Phoenix Chorale . In 2011 and 2013, two other works he produced received awards. From 2010 to 2012 he was nominated three more times for the personal award for best classical music producer, before finally receiving the award for the fifth time at the 2013 Grammy Awards .

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  1. ^ Blanton Alspaugh in the Grammy database
  2. ^ Shepherd School alum gets Grammy nod , Shepherd School of Music

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