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2025 Grammy® Awards FYC: ” Alphabet”

I’m so honored to be sharing my album “Alphabet” for listener’s consideration in the 67th Annual Grammy Awards. It’s an thrill to be considered, especially with so many incredible composers in the category.

Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album

My album “Alphabet” is entered into the Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album category in the GRAMMY® Awards.

LISTEN TO “ALPHABET”

Previous GRAMMY Nominees for Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album

66th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2024)

  • Ocean Dreaming Ocean
  • Some Kind Of Peace (Piano Reworks)
  • Moments Of Beauty
  • Aquamarine
  • So She Howls (winner)

65th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2023)

  • The Passenger
  • Mantra Americana
  • Joy
  • Positano Songs
  • Mystic Mirror (winner)

64th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2024)

  • Night + Day
  • Pieces Of Forever
  • Pangaea
  • Brothers
  • Divine Tides (winner)

63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2024)

  • Meditations
  • Form//Less
  • Periphery
  • Songs From The Bardo
  • More Guitar Stories (winner)

As you can see there are so many incredible artists involved in this category, it’s an honor to have my name side-by-side with them.

Alphabet

Alphabet is a personal journey, written over four years, but recorded, crafted, and released in 2024. Alphabet reflects a broad spectrum of emotions and stories, from peace, celebration, and loss. Each track, correlating to the alphabet, was recorded and produced in Chicago by me to offer a unique sound that both pushes boundaries and resonates with timeless emotions.

Album Highlights:

  • W is for Waves: The album kicks off with a trance-like minimalist journey featuring piano, marimba, and synthesizers. This composition was premiered live at New Music Chicago’s Impromptu Fest 2023.
  • Collaborations: Again collaborating with producer and pianist Alyssa Arrigo, the album brings growth to our musical language and collaborative efforts after my previous album MMXX.

The first track I composed was “A is for Angela” the night my sister gave birth to her son. My sister has always been an important influence and mentor in my life. Also on the album is a track called “J is for Jane” which was written for my aunt Jane who passed away in the spring of 2024, before the album was released.

I composed “J is for Jane” quickly after returning home from the funeral. She was a pianist herself and very involved in her church choir, as well as singing in professional choirs. I wanted to compose a piece that had the vertical stacking of chords like a chorus, but remained textural on the piano. The piano has such a nostalgic sound to it, and it was a proper setting as she gave me my first piano lessons when I was very little.

W is for Waves

W is for Waves has been a hit on the album. It was my friend and pianist Alyssa Arrigo, who was also a producer on MMXX, who pointed out that the album need to kick off with a bang.

We’ve performed W is for Waves lives multiple times and it’s quite a challenge with the counting. You can see more about the piece and the sheet music here.

LIVE Listening Party

You can listen and watch the live listening party from the evening before the album was released.

It’s an honor to have Alphabet considered in the Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album at this year’s Grammy® Awards. You can listen to the full album anywhere you stream music or here: https://timcorpus.net/index.php/portfolio/alphabet/

Tim Corpus is a composer with a genuine lyric impulse. He writes music that is at the same time challenging and appealing - which should be the ideal of any composer. He has a wonderful ear for sound and for shape. This is a composer with a real and important voice.

Henry Fogel Retired Dean of the Chicago College of Performing Arts and CEO/President of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

...`{`Three Pieces for Five Timpani`}` is an outstanding addition to the literature for timpani and great for advanced recital programs.

George Frock Professor Emeritus, The University of Texas

Tim Corpus is a wonderfully skilled composer who has important things to say with his music. His debut album, Breath, is extremely impressive. Beautiful and exciting music to be sure!

Larry Alan Smith Composer

Tim Corpus' music is complex, original and steeped in tradition. His Three Pieces for Five Timpani is clearly an extension of the composers, such as Elliott Carter, that came before him. The pieces are challenging but fulfilling to learn and perform. Possibly the most important thing about Tim's timpani writing is that audiences will enjoy listening to his compositions. He is taking solo timpani writing to the next level.

Ed Harrison Timpanist of the Lyric Opera of Chicago

The melodic gestures in Tim Corpus' masterful piece for strings, ``Breath``, are paced so that a listener’s respiration pattern aligns itself instinctively with the slow and even pulse of the piece. Breath creates a powerful performer/listener symbiosis, a remarkable accomplishment on the part of the composer.

Steven Gryc Composer

Tim Corpus’s music is beautifully lyrical, nicely voiced and technically well-realized. In person, he is a pleasure to work with. We very much enjoyed recording his first two string quartets and hope to see more from him in the future.

Jen Leckie Violinist, Grant Street String Quartet

I recently had the pleasure of conducting the premiere of First Flight. It is artfully written, fresh, unique, and best of all – a beautiful piece of music! Tim is a major talent with big things in store for his future. It clearly deserves a permanent place in the repertoire of any serious wind ensemble. I can't wait to program it again!

Stephen Squires Conductor, Chicago College of Performing Arts Wind Ensemble

I have worked with Tim Corpus as a performer, composer and teacher. He brings passion and energy to his craft. He is a young lion who is making his mark on the Chicago music scene.

Kevin Miller Retired Band Director, Schaumburg High School

I've had the pleasure of knowing Tim for years now, and I learned very quickly that his passion and talent as a performer and composer are unquestioned. Everything he does is handled with a rare combination of intensity and care, and his works display such attributes. His lyricism in particular, along with his rich, beautiful harmonies and intricate polyphony set him apart from many of his colleagues. In a world littered with simple, non-intellectual music, Tim is breaking through and creating a new, exciting, accessible, and, most importantly, intelligent style of music that is imperative to the future of our art form.

Matt Bronstein Axiom Brass Quintet

Breath is very professionally produced, and the overall impression is of a lyrical and rhapsodic voice. I think Breath is a great starter, very ample and serene, even ecstatic. The second quartet is lively and engaging throughout.

Dr. Robert Carl Composer
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