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Multiple GRAMMY Nominations for Westminster Choir College Alums


By Christopher Benincasa, JerseyArts.com

originally published: 03/14/2021


The 2021 GRAMMY Awards took place on Sunday, March 14, and, for the first time, a Westminster Choir College graduate participated in each of the five recordings nominated in the Best Choral Performance category. We recently spoke with five of the artists in that category – Donald Nally, Laquita Mitchell, Adam Luebke, Benedict Sheehan, and Christopher Jackson – about the nominated recordings.




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About the author: Christopher Benincasa is an Emmy Award-winning arts and culture journalist. He produced content for NJ PBS for a decade before co-founding PCK Media. Christopher currently works as a freelance producer, video editor, writer, and communications specialist for a diverse set of commercial, non-profit, and government clients. His work has been featured on various PBS stations, and in American Abstract Artists Journal, The Structurist, Paterson Literary Review, and JerseyArts.com.

Content provided by Discover Jersey Arts, a project of the ArtPride New Jersey Foundation and New Jersey State Council on the Arts.





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