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Encyclopedia > David Frost (producer)

David Frost is a music producer and pianist. The son of Thomas Frost, who won the 1986 Grammy for Classical Producer of the Year, he has won 2 Grammys for his work, most recently in 2005 for the same award as his father. He has worked with numerous labels, including RCA Red Seal, Sony Classical, London/Decca, Deutsche Grammophon and EMI Classics. As a staff producer at BMG Classics (RCA Red Seal) for nearly a decade, he collaborated with many of their most important artists André Previn, Sir Colin Davis, Leonard Slatkin, The Tokyo String Quartet, Janos Starker, Luciano Berio and the pianists Alicia de Larrocha, Evgeny Kissin, Rudolf Firkusny and Van Cliburn. He is also a guest faculty member of The Banff Centre A pianist is a person who plays the piano. ... Deutsche Grammophon is a German record company. ... EMI Classics is a record label of EMI. It was formed in 1990 in order to reduce the need to create country-specific packaging and catalogs for internationally distributed classical music releases. ... André Previn (born April 6, 1930)¹ is a prominent pianist, orchestral conductor, and composer. ... Sir Colin Rex Davis (born September 25, 1927) is a noted British conductor. ... Leonard Slatkin (born September 1, 1944) is an American conductor. ... Janos Starker (b. ... Luciano Berio (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian composer. ... Evgeny Kissin Evgeny Kissin (Евге́ний Ки́син) (born October 10, 1971) is a well-known Russian pianist. ... Cliburn playing in the final round of the First International Tchaikovskys Piano Competition Van Cliburn (born July 12, 1934) is an American pianist who achieved worldwide recognition in 1958 when, at the age of 23, he won the first quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow, at the height...


He was producer for Kathleen Battle's Sony Classical release "Grace", and Decca’s “Star Crossed Lovers” with Renée Fleming, Placido Domingo and Daniel Barenboim. He has produced operatic tracks for several film soundtracks, including A Midsummer Night’s Dream with soprano Renée Fleming, and The Man Who Cried with tenor Salvatore Licitra. He has collaborated with director, Baz Luhrmann, producing the Broadway Cast Album of Puccini’s La Boheme for Dreamworks Records. Kathleen Battle (born August 13, 1948) is an American soprano. ... The American soprano Renée Fleming (born February 14, 1959) is a leading opera singer. ... Plácido Domingo (born January 21, 1941) is a world-renowned opera singer, conductor, and general manager. ... Daniel Barenboim Daniel Barenboim (born November 15, 1942) is an Argentinean-Israeli pianist and conductor. ... The American soprano Renée Fleming (born February 14, 1959) is a leading opera singer. ... The Man Who Cried is a 2000 film by writer-director Sally Potter. ... Baz Luhrmann (born Mark Anthony Luhrmann, New South Wales, 17 September 1962) is an Australian film director. ... Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (December 22, 1858 – November 29, 1924) is regarded as one of the great operatic composers of the late 19th and early 20th century. ... La Bohème is an often-adapted story first appearing in Henry Murgers magazine articles in the early 1800s. ... Dreamworks Records is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. ...


Awards

He was the producer for Alicia de Larrocha's RCA recording of Granados' Goyescas, which won both a Grammy and the Grand Prix du Disque. Source: David Frost, record producer. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... The Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical has been awarded since 1980. ... 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children has been awarded since 1994. ... Steven Epstein is the name of several prominent people. ...


External links

  • Personal website (http://www.davidfrost.net/)
  • Milken Family Foundation press release about Grammy award (http://www.mff.org/newsroom/news.taf?page=pr_grammy2)

References

  • Official biography from his personal site, above

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David Frost (producer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (329 words)
The son of Thomas Frost, who won the 1986 Grammy for Classical Producer of the Year, he has won 2 Grammys for his work, most recently in 2005 for the same award as his father.
As a staff producer at BMG Classics (RCA Red Seal) for nearly a decade, he collaborated with many of their most important artists André Previn, Sir Colin Davis, Leonard Slatkin, The Tokyo String Quartet, János Starker, Luciano Berio and the pianists Alicia de Larrocha, Evgeny Kissin, Rudolf Firkusny and Van Cliburn.
He was the producer for Alicia de Larrocha's RCA recording of Granados' Goyescas, which won both a Grammy and the Grand Prix du Disque.
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