{"id":2268373,"date":"2026-02-05T18:25:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2268373"},"modified":"2026-02-05T18:25:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:25:50","slug":"lawrence-university-professors-take-home-grammy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/lawrence-university-professors-take-home-grammy\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence University professors take home Grammy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>APPLETON, Wis. \u2014 Two Lawrence University professors took home a Grammy last weekend at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embedcode\"><center><\/p>\n<div class=\"keypointsbox\" style=\"text-align: left; width: 95%;\">\n<hr style=\"height: 2px; border-width: 0; background-color: #042d4d;\"\/>\n<h4 style=\"text-indent: 10px;\"><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/h4>\n<h5>\n<ul>\n<li>As part of a 22-member contemporary chamber orchestra, Alarm Will Sound, professors Michael Clayville and Erin Lesser received the Best Chamber Music\/Small Ensemble Performance award at the Grammy Awards<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The Grammy was won for the group\u2019s recording of Donnacha Dennehy\u2019s Land of Winter, which was also nominated for Best Contemporary Classical Composition<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Clayville focuses on music in entrepreneurial studies and social engagement at Lawrence<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Lesser is married to Clayville and joined the band as a flute player over 10 years ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h5>\n<hr style=\"height: 2px; border-width: 0; background-color: #042d4d;\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n<span class=\"remove-embeded\"\/><\/div>\n<p>As part of a 22-member contemporary chamber orchestra, Alarm Will Sound, professors Michael Clayville and Erin Lesser received the Best Chamber Music\/Small Ensemble Performance award.<\/p>\n<p>The Grammy was won for the group\u2019s recording of Donnacha Dennehy\u2019s Land of Winter, which was also nominated for Best Contemporary Classical Composition. According to Lawrence University, the musical piece \u201creflects the interplay of light throughout the year in Ireland across 12 interconnected movements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clayville focuses on music in entrepreneurial studies and social engagement at Lawrence. He\u2019s also one of the founding members of Alarm Will Sound and plays the trombone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an incredible honor for Erin and me to represent Lawrence University and its world-class Conservatory of Music through this GRAMMY win,\u201d Clayville said in a release following the win. \u201cThe values we carry from Lawrence\u2014artistic rigor, collaboration, and curiosity\u2014are central to everything we do.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lesser is married to Clayville and joined the band as a flute player over 10 years ago. She\u2019s been at Lawrence as a professor of flute since 2011.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source spectrumnews1.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APPLETON, Wis. \u2014 Two Lawrence University professors took home a Grammy last weekend at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards. 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