Judith Sherman

Last updated
Judith Sherman
Born (1942-11-12) November 12, 1942 (age 81)
Cleveland, Ohio
Origin United States
GenresClassical
Occupation(s) Engineer, producer
Years active1971–present

Judith Dorothy Sherman (born November 12, 1942) is an American audio engineer, and record producer. She has been nominated for 18 Grammy Awards and won 14 including for Producer Of The Year, Classical seven times (in 1993, 2007, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2022, and 2023). [1] She has worked with contemporary composers on recordings including Steve Reich, Elliot Carter, John Adams, John Corigliano, and Philip Glass. [2] Notable artists she has worked with include the Alexander String Quartet, Kronos Quartet ( Nuevo ), Pacifica Quartet, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, and the Cleveland Quartet.

Contents

Early life and career

Sherman was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1942 to LaVerne Luekens Smith [3] and William Paul Luekens.[ citation needed ] She attended Valparaiso University where she graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in 1964. She received a Master of Fine Arts from State University of New York (Buffalo) in 1971. [4] After graduating, Sherman worked for Edd Kalehoff (professionally known as "Edward at the Moog" [5] ) in 1971-1972 in New York City. She went on to work for WBAI in New York, where she started as an engineer and worked her way up to producer and music director. [2] In 1976, she started Judith Sherman Productions, where she has worked since as a freelance recording engineer and producer. [6]

Sherman was the summer recording engineer for the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont from 1976 to 1994. [6] She was audio faculty at the Banff Centre in 2006 and 2008. [7] She has served on the board of directors for Chamber Music America. [6]

Personal life

Sherman was married to Grammy-winning record producer Max Wilcox. The marriage ended in divorce. [8] She is married to violinist Curtis Macomber. [9]

After the death of her mother, Sherman commissioned composer George Perle to write a piece in her mother's memory. Triptych for Violin & Piano premiered January 27, 2003 in New York City. [3]

Awards

She was awarded the Richard J. Bogomolny National Service Award (by Chamber Music America) in 2009. [2]

Related Research Articles

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is an American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Her early works are marked by atonal exploration, but by the late 1980s, she had shifted to a postmodernist, neoromantic style. She has been called "one of America's most frequently played and genuinely popular living composers." She was a 1994 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. Zwilich has served as the Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor at Florida State University.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">William Schuman</span> American composer and arts administrator (1910-1992)

William Howard Schuman was an American composer and arts administrator.

Joan Tower is a Grammy-winning contemporary American composer, concert pianist and conductor. Lauded by The New Yorker as "one of the most successful woman composers of all time", her bold and energetic compositions have been performed in concert halls around the world. After gaining recognition for her first orchestral composition, Sequoia (1981), a tone poem which structurally depicts a giant tree from trunk to needles, she has gone on to compose a variety of instrumental works including Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, which is something of a response to Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, the Island Prelude, five string quartets, and an assortment of other tone poems. Tower was pianist and founding member of the Naumburg Award-winning Da Capo Chamber Players, which commissioned and premiered many of her early works, including her widely performed Petroushskates.

<i>Lyric Suite</i> (Berg) String quartet music by Alban Berg

The Lyric Suite is a six-movement work for string quartet written by Alban Berg between 1925 and 1926 using methods derived from Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique. Though publicly dedicated to Alexander von Zemlinsky, the work has been shown to possess a "secret dedication" and to outline a "secret programme".

Steven Epstein is an American record producer. The winner of 16 Grammy Awards and 2 Latin Grammys, he has been nominated 35 times. He has won the Grammy for Classical Producer of the Year 7 times. While primarily known for his work in classical music, Epstein also has Grammy nominations and wins for albums in musical theater, musical show, crossover, soundtrack, and spoken word for children.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Robert Mann</span> American musician, composer and conductor

Robert Nathaniel Mann was a violinist, composer, conductor, and founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet, as well as a faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music. Mann, the first violinist at Juilliard, served on the school's string quartet for over fifty years until his retirement in 1997.

Bernard Rands is a British-American contemporary classical composer. He studied music and English literature at the University of Wales, Bangor, and composition with Pierre Boulez and Bruno Maderna in Darmstadt, Germany, and with Luigi Dallapiccola and Luciano Berio in Milan, Italy. He held residencies at Princeton University, the University of Illinois, and the University of York before emigrating to the United States in 1975; he became a U.S. citizen in 1983. In 1984, Rands's Canti del Sole, premiered by Paul Sperry, Zubin Mehta, and the New York Philharmonic, won the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He has since taught at the University of California, San Diego, the Juilliard School, Yale University, and Boston University. From 1988 to 2005 he taught at Harvard University, where he is Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music Emeritus.

The Del Sol Quartet is a string quartet based in San Francisco, California that was founded in 1992 by violist Charlton Lee.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kenneth Fuchs</span> Musical artist

Kenneth Daniel Fuchs is a Grammy Award-winning American composer. He currently serves as Professor of Music Composition at the University of Connecticut in Storrs.

Cedille Records is the independent record label of the Chicago Classical Recording Foundation.

Hilda Paredes is one of Mexico's leading contemporary composers, and has received many prestigious awards for her work. She currently resides in London, and is married to the noted English violinist, Irvine Arditti.

Bernadette Speach is an American avant-garde composer and pianist. Known for her minimalist approach, she often synthesizes improvisation and through-composed material.

<i>Witold Lutosławski: String Quartet</i> 1991 studio album by Kronos Quartet

Witold Lutosławski: String Quartet is a studio album by the Kronos Quartet, containing String Quartet by Polish Witold Lutosławski composed in 1964 and first performed in 1965. This string quartet is an example of aleatory music, that is, music in which some element of the composition is left to chance, and/or some primary element of a composed work's realization is left to the determination of its performer(s). As Gerald Gold noted in a review of the Kronos album in The New York Times, "the Lutoslawski composition integrates notated music with chance performance."

<i>Night Prayers</i> 1994 studio album by Kronos Quartet

Night Prayers is a studio album by the Kronos Quartet. It contains commissioned pieces with music from former Soviet republics in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and includes performances by Throat Singers of Tuva, Dawn Upshaw (soprano), Djivan Gasparyan (duduk), and Mikhail Alexandrovich (cantor).

Miguel del Águila is an Uruguayan-born, American composer of contemporary classical music.

Quartet San Francisco is a non-traditional and eclectic string quartet led by violinist Jeremy Cohen. The group played their first concert in 2001 and has recorded five albums. Playing a wide range of music genres including jazz, blues, tango, swing, funk, and pop, the group challenges the traditional classical music foundation of the string quartet.

Carol Wincenc born June 29, 1949, is an American flutist based in New York City. She is known for her solo and chamber music performances and her support of new music for the flute. She is on the faculty of the Juilliard School and Stony Brook University.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David Felder</span> American composer and academic

David Felder is an American composer and academic who was a SUNY Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo until his retirement in 2022. He was also the director of both the June in Buffalo Festival and the Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21st Century Music.

Max Wilcox (December 27, 1928 - January 20, 2017) was an American producer of classical music records, known for his relationship with pianist Arthur Rubinstein.

Joanna Nickrenz was an American record producer. She won four Grammy Awards, and received nine Grammy nominations over the course of her career, including two wins and five nominations for Classical Producer of the Year.

References

  1. "Judith Sherman". GRAMMY.com. 2019-02-15. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  2. 1 2 3 "Judith Sherman". New Music USA. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  3. 1 2 "Perle,George:Triptych for Violin & Piano : Thomas Metzler Violin Shop". www.metzlerviolins.com. Archived from the original on 2019-02-17. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  4. "Alumni Pride". arts-sciences.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  5. "Selling Sounds". Billboard Magazine. 82 (28). July 11, 1970.
  6. 1 2 3 asq4 (2012-06-15). "Meet Producer Judith Sherman". The Alexander String Quartet. Retrieved 2019-02-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. "InStudio Magazine Spring/Summer 2018". Issuu. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  8. Roberts, Sam (2017-01-31). "Max Wilcox, Grammy-Winning Record Producer, Dies at 88". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  9. H., Stam, David (2014). What happened to me : my life with books, research libraries, and performing arts. [Bloomington, Ind.]: AuthorHouse. ISBN   9781491861493. OCLC   875295930.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)