The Grammy Awards are tonight, and a member of the UMass Amherst music department will be there. Trumpeter Eric Berlin is up for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for a recording of the “Concerto For Two Trumpets & Band.” He first heard the piece about a decade ago, fell in love with it, and had it re-arranged.
“Concerto for Two Trumpets and Band” by Stephen Paulus with Eric Berlin as soloist, has a Grammy nomination in the Contemporary Classical composition category.