Today I received an email from ERMMedia announcing that Holidays of the New Era, Vol. 1 was one of four ERMMedia CDs to be nominated for the prestigious JPF award.

JPF, the largest music organization in the world announced the awards nomination this morning (June 25, 2009.)  These nominations were selected from over 560,000 entries worldwide.

The Award Nominations from ERMMedia are:

BEST CLASSICAL CONTEMPORARY ALBUM:

***** FROM DARKNESS INTO LIGHT (Gustav Hoyer, composer. Hartford Virtuosi, Marcia LaReau, cond. Daughters of Eve Quartet.) ERMMedia Prestige CD [ERM6808]

***** HOLIDAYS OF THE NEW ERA – Volume One (Music of Brandon, Dal Porto, Golub, Karlen, Knight, Marshall, Mathews, Meachem, Pan, Powers, Reese, Schroeder, Stephenson, Stoop, Stroobach, Wagner, Ward-Steinman and Williams (Sing Noel). Kiev Philharmonic, Robert Ian Winstin, cond.) [ERM6806]

***** TALIBAN DANCES (Kiev Philharmonic, Robert Ian Winstin, composer & conductor.) [ERM5555]

BEST CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL ALBUM:

***** MASTERWORKS OF THE NEW ERA – Volume Twelve (Music of Abbott, Bagdazian, Barmor Rose, Bilotta, Blumhofer, Brickman, Clark, Constantinides, Dal Porto, Evans, Field, Garber, Gottschalk, Guthrie, He,
Jones, Korneitchouk, McMullin, Olac, Powers, Rudenstein, Sartor, Schroeter, Tarsi, Timpson, Stadig, Walczyk, Winsor, Worthington & Wylegala. Kiev Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, Robert Ian Winstin, cond.) [ERM6827]

This years entries were selected from over 560,000 entries and from all over the world. Two years ago, ERMMedia won BEST CLASSICAL ALBUM with MASTERWORKS OF THE NEW ERA – Volume Two.

Awards will be presented on August 29, 2009 in Nashville. Our hearty congratulations to all of the composers featured!