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Judith Sherman, producer of Lawrence Dillon’s Insects and Paper Airplanes CD for the Bridge label – http://www.bridgerecords.com/catpage.php?call=9332 has been awarded a Grammy as Producer of the Year, Classical.

Insects and Paper Airplanes brings together the second, third and fourth quartets from Dillon’s Invisible Cities String Quartet Cycle, a set of six quartets he has been working on since 1998, in performances by the Daedalus Quartet. The disk also includes What Happened, performed by Kyu-Young Kim, violin, Jessica Thompson, viola, Raman Ramakrishnan, cello and Benjamin Hochman, piano.

Gramophone wrote about the CD, “Just when you thought the string quartet may have reached the edge of sonic possibilities, along comes a composer who makes something novel, haunting and whimsical of the genre….Highly recommended.”

American Record Guide wrote, “…this program nearly bursts with freshness and invention, all the more exciting for the exemplary performances by the Daedalus Quartet and Benjamin Hochman, who obviously love these works. The engineering is also exemplary and brings out all the character of the strings, from the glacial and smooth to the gritty and raw.”

Judith Sherman is an eleven-time Grammy Award nominee and a previous winner in 1993 and 2007 of the award for Classical Producer of the Year. Early in her career she was employed at WBAI-FM in New York City, beginning as an engineer and over the course of four years working her way up to become Producer and then Music Director. During the Summers of 1976 through 1994, she was the recording engineer of the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont. She currently works as a freelance recording producer and engineer in New York.

Naxos has issued Lawrence Dillon Violin Music (Catalogue No: 8.559644 – http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.559644), featuring seven chamber works performed by violinist Danielle Belen, 2008 Grand Prize Winner of the Sphinx Competition. Visit his website at http://www.lawrencedillon.com/

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