The 61st GRAMMY Awards
February 10, 2019
Apollo’s Fire and Jeannette Sorrell win Grammy® Award for “Songs of Orpheus” album with Karim Sulayman
“Best Classical Solo Vocal Album” Category
Awarded to:
Karim Sulayman, tenor
Jeannette Sorrell, conductor
Apollo’s Fire, ensemble
[https://youtu.be/9bDxVnUwMQo
Watch the announcement from the awards event
CONGRATULATIONS to Karim, Jeannette, and the AF musicians who performed on this album:
Julie Andrijeski, Johanna Novom, William Simms, Brian Kay, René Schiffer, Karina Schmitz, and Rebecca Landell Reed.
And special thanks to our producer Erica Brenner, recording engineer Ian Dobie, mixing/mastering engineer Daniel Shores, and to our wonderful record label AVIE in London.
Read the article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer here.
Julie Andrijeski, Johanna Novom, William Simms, Brian Kay, René Schiffer, Karina Schmitz, and Rebecca Landell Reed.
And special thanks to our producer Erica Brenner, recording engineer Ian Dobie, mixing/mastering engineer Daniel Shores, and to our wonderful record label AVIE in London.
Read the article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer here.


“Sulayman [has] a lucid, velvety tenor and pop-star charisma…. Under Sorrell’s spirited direction, Apollo’s Fire provides devil-may-care virtuosity.”
– BBC Music Magazine
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