The pianist and composer Sira Hernández was awarded at the Global Music Awards for her album “Tre impressioni sulla Divina Commedia”.
Spanish pianist and composer Sira Hernández has won Best of Show at the US Global Music Awards for her recent album Tre impressioni sulla Divina Commedia, released this summer on the Sony Classical label. The Spaniard’s album also won first prize (gold medal) for contemporary classical composition, and second prize (silver medal) in the music video category.
Tre impressioni sulla Divina Commedia was Sira Hernández’s recording debut on Sony Classical, in her double role as composer and performer. The work had been premiered on 25 March 2021, Dante’s International Dante Day – in which scholars of the Italian writer place the beginning of his journey through his Divine Comedy – as part of the commemorations of the 700th anniversary of the poet’s death, in a concert held at the National Library of Spain.
Other gold medal winners in the field of contemporary classical include Michael Whalen, for Imaginary Trains, in the ambient music category; Charles Henri-Avelange, for The Oeuvre of Leon Oury, best album; and Kotoka Suzuki, for Shimmer, Tree, in the experimental music category.