COLUMBIA, S.C. — A University of South Carolina School of Music professor and his ensemble have won a Grammy Award.
Bassoon professor Michael Harley and his ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, won Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 1, in Los Angeles. The ensemble won for the collaborative piece “Land of Winter” by composer Donnacha Dennehy, which was also a nominee for Best Contemporary Classical Composition.
“I am just incredibly lucky, both to be a part of a group like Alarm Will Sound and for our album to have somehow broken through all the noise to be recognized in this way,” Harley said, calling the honor a high point in the ensemble’s 25 years of commitment to each other and their music. “The opportunity to play the music of our time and to help bring the vision of artists and composers like Donnacha Dennehy to life is a gift.”…