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Cian Ducrot and Elaine Kelly, CSM alumni, where up for awards at this years Grammy Awards.
CSM ALUMNI : Represented at 2025 Grammy Awards in LA with two former students up for awards.
Elaine Kelly (graduate BMus, MA conducting) was nominated as conductor in the category Best Choral Performance for Sheehan: Akathist, an exciting contemporary oratorio which premiered in New York last year. You can read more about
Elaine's incredible journey in this recent article: https://www.image.ie/agenda/irish-conductor-elaine-kelly-on-her-grammy-nomination-and-challenging-tradition-in-classical-music-946915
Cian Ducrot studied on the CSM conservatoire programme all through his childhood and teenage years before emerging as one of Ireland's most exciting singer-songwriters of recent times.
He won his first Grammy on Saturday for songwriting, as a co-writer on SZA's track Saturn, which won Best R&B Song at the awards. https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/0203/1494461-irish-musician-cian-ducrot-wins-his-first-grammy-award/
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