Isabel Bayrakdarian

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Armenian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian is nominated for the 2009 Grammy Awards.

She sings on the Grammy award-winning soundtrack of the blockbuster film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and her voice can also be heard in the multiple award-winning Canadian film Ararat. She is also the subject of a film entitled A Long Journey Home that documents her first trip to Armenia.




Canada’s top recording artists garnered a total of 10 GRAMMY Award nominations. 2009 Canadian nominees include:

EAST VILLAGE OPERA COMPANY
ELLEN PAGE & MICHAEL CERA
DEADMAU5 (JUNO Award winner)
ISABEL BAYRAKDARIAN (four-time JUNO Award winner)
MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN (six-time JUNO Award winner)
NEIL YOUNG (five-time JUNO Award winner)
NORTHERN CREE
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT (two-time JUNO Award winner)
RUSH (six-time JUNO Award winner)
WALTER OSTANEK

An impressive list of Canadian artists have joined the ranks of GRAMMY Award winners over the years, including JUNO Award-winning music icons such as Alanis Morissette, Anne Murray, Bryan Adams, Diana Krall, Nelly Furtado, Oscar Peterson, Shania Twain and Sarah McLachlan. The 51stAnnual GRAMMY Awards will be broadcast live from the STAPLES Center in LosAngeles on February 8, 2009 at 8 p.m. (EST).

For a complete list of the 51st Annual GRAMMY Award nominations go to www.grammy.com

Dle Yaman by Isabel Bayrakrayan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlTAIFBMSIU

"Andouni" (Homeless) by Isabel Bayrakdarian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qWxRJ5hU7s

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Re: Isabel Bayrakdarian

Don't forget to watch Grammy nominee Isabel Bayrakdarian this Sunday night. Awards will be broadcast live from the STAPLES Center in Los Angeles on February 8, 2009 at 8 p.m. (EST). I think its on CBS.

http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/gomidas-songs

Category 106

Best Classical Vocal Performance
(Award to the Vocal Soloist(s).)

* Corigliano: Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems Of Bob Dylan
Hila Plitmann (JoAnn Falletta; Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra)
[Naxos]

* Fussell, Charles: Wilde
Sanford Sylvan (Gil Rose; Boston Modern Orchestra Project)
[BMOP/Sound]

* Gomidas Songs
Isabel Bayrakdarian (Eduard Topchjan; Serouj Kradjian; Chamber Players Of The Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra)
[Nonesuch Records]

* Maria
Cecilia Bartoli (Adam Fischer; Orchestra La Scintilla)
[Decca Records]

* Terezín: Theresienstadt
Anne Sofie Von Otter (Christian Gerhaher & Daniel Hope; Bengt Forsberg & Gerold Huber)
[Deutsche Grammophon]