Grammy Awards 2022
Nominee - Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

Conspirare, Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Texas Guitar Quartet, Austin Guitar Quartet, Craig Hella Johnson

Esmail: When the Guitar
Muhly: How Little You Are
Smith, K: The Dawn's Early Light
Johnson, C H: The Song That I Came to Sing

The wonderful Conspirare chamber choir, known for its interpretive depth and other-worldly sonic lushness, offers another of its captivating programs—this time joined by three superb guitar quartets—in a program remarkably relevant to our time. Conspirare’s 2019 Delos album, The Hope of Loving (DE 3578), was nominated for a GRAMMY® Award for Best Choral Performance in 2020. That album was given a release party hosted by Classical MPR and ChoralStream. The concert version of The Singing Guitar was performed to full houses and has been featured, along with interviews, on KUTX radio. The combination of guitar quartet and chorus is so successful it’s surprising that more composers have not written for it. Nico Muhly’s How Little You Are, one of four compelling compositions on the album, is accompanied by twelve guitars.