A Path to GRAMMY nomination!

25 Mar 2026 · 2 min

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This content was created by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This content was uploaded by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This is a YouTube excerpt titled "A Path to GRAMMY nomination!" (uploaded 2026-03-25) from an episode of The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. It features Grammy-nominated concert pianist Han Chen describing how label Nexus approached him to record a concerto, his preparation and recording experience, meeting conductor John Jitter who helped campaign the recording for the Grammy ballot, and his gratitude for the nomination. The clip ends with The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song promoting the full episode on their YouTube channel and podcast platforms.

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Well, I was first approached by my label Nexus to record this concerto. They have been doing a series of her orchestral works in the past few years, and they asked me whether I was interested. And at the time, to be honest, I didn't know her music. You know, at the moment I heard the concerto, I immediately fell in love. It is something that is so visceral that you listen to it and you— it gets into you. So I said yes, and I prepared for it. I went to record. But this whole time, I, you know, it's my 5th album, so I didn't think about— I didn't think that it would lead to something, you know, just like I keep recording music and recording music is fun, you know. I went and I met this conductor, John Jitter, who has been the one who recorded all of Florence Price's music, and he is very involved in the whole process of getting on the ballot of the Grammy and then to, you know, to campaign for it and to talk to people about this whole thing. And he brought me in. He was like, um, I was gonna do this thing, do you want to join me? And I said yes. I didn't know what that meant at the time. I just felt that we did a good recording of this, I want people to listen to it. Then the recording was released, and then we went to LA to play excerpts of it to, you know, make people realize that there's this album on the ballot, people should listen to it. And then we got the nomination. It just happened that way. And I was extremely lucky and grateful for this whole thing. Whole process felt really smooth and it was like you put in the work and it happened. But, you know, in music, a lot of time it's not the way. You put in a lot of effort and you don't know what's going to happen. But this was really, really very lucky for me to get this for this recording.
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