“Best Choral Performance”
62nd Annual GRAMMY® Awards

DURUFLÉ: COMPLETE CHORAL WORKS

The Houston Chamber Choir is thrilled to have received “Best Choral Performance” award for Duruflé: Complete Choral Works at the 62nd Annual GRAMMY® Awards on January 26, 2020. The recording is a labor of love, and we would like to deeply thank everyone that joined us on this extraordinary journey!

And the Grammy goes to…

Houston Chamber Choir’s “Duruflé: Complete Choral Works” receives GRAMMY® Award for “Best Choral Performance”

“I also accept this award on behalf of the City of Houston, one of the real artistic capitals of our country. It is from this city that our musicians are drawn. We’re friends and neighbors and how amazingly talented.”

Robert Simpson during his acceptance speech.

  • "...sensitive music-making...above all other realizations of Duruflé that I know..."

    Dale Warland

  • "...This sumptuous new release captures Durufle’s unique qualities better than any... a superb recording to be treasured."

    Simon Carrington

  • ...This outstanding, even sublime album deserves awards..."

    Dr. Debra Jan Bibel

UNDERWRITERS FOR DURUFLÉ: COMPLETE CHORAL WORKS

Irving Schweppe
Janice Barrow
Letitia L. Knapp
Karen and Harry Pinson
Fairfax and Risher Randall
Judy and Charles Tate
Sally and Michael Clark
Mandy and William McKenzie
Anne Bushman
Frank Hood
Charlotte Jones
Nick Shumway and Robert Mayott
Jim Murdaugh and Gary Smith
Carol and Andy Vickery
Sonia Sheely and Randolph Wagner
Carol and Paul Lutz
Robert Simpson and Marianna Parnas-Simpson

Adele and Tony Gorody, Jay Jackson, Nancy Younger Kruka and Veet Kruka, Frank Busch, Marilyn and Theodore Flick, Jeanie and Martus Miley, Sharon Prince, Jack Byrom, Barbara and Will Hamilton, Phyllis Harris, Kathy and Andre Jackson, Dorothy and Joe McLemore, Martha Palmer, Elizabeth Tait, Lynn Lamont and William Anderson, Nell Richardson and Sidney Buchanan, Denise and Steve Godowns, Jenny and Jeff Van Hal, Monica and Eiki Isomura, Lannis Kirkland, Lauren Pastorek, Patrick Schneider, Briana and Kevin Kerner, Rameen Chaharbaghi, Martha Frances, Stacey Franklin, Carol and Jerry Gruber, Kathleen Ruhleder, Anne Schnoebelen, Ryan Stickney, Catherine and Dana Whitney, L. Wayne Ashley, Kelli and Scott Lawless, Jeffrey Ragsdale, Daniela D’Inguillo