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For immediate release April 5, 2004 Banff Centre recording wins JUNO Award A recording produced at The Banff Centre has won a 2004 JUNO Award in the category of Classical Album of the Year: Solo or Chamber Ensemble. The Gryphon Trio’s Canadian Premieres was recorded in June 2002 in the Rolston Recital Hall at The Banff Centre and was produced and engineered by Theresa Leonard, the Centre’s director of audio. Canadian Premieres is dedicated to Isobel Moore Rolston, artistic director/executive producer of Music & Sound at the Centre, and Tom Rolston, director of Summer Music Programs. The assistant engineer was Mireille Faure, with digital editing by Faure and David Houston. The recording features Canadian works commissioned for the Gryphon Trio including “Give Me Phoenix Wings to Fly” by Kelly-Marie Murphy, “and the masks evoke…” by Chan Ka Nin, “Trio no.2” by Gary Kulesha, and “Old Photographs” by Christos Hatzis. Canadian Premieres was recorded and produced with assistance from The Canada Council for the Arts. The recording is available from Analekta, Canada’s largest classical recording label. The 33rd annual JUNO awards were broadcast on April 4 in Edmonton. — 30 — Images and information on the JUNO awards: www.juno-awards.ca
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