2025 GRAMMY Awards Nominee: Best Engineered Album, Classical

• Engineers Silas Brown, Doron Schachter, and Michael Schwartz at Legacy Sound

• Mastering engineer Matt Colton at Metropolis/The Power House

• Performed by Metropolis Ensemble (conductor Andrew Cyr), composer and pianist Timo Andres, and cellist Inbal Segev

“Wonderfully controlled and poised performance… and the irrepressible Andres on top of his game… I cannot recommend this album highly enough.”

(Gramophone Editors Choice)

Project In-Depth

Behind the scenes recording at Adelphi University Performing Arts Center in June 2023. Photos courtesy of Henry Wang and Inbal Segev.

Timo Andres

Composer and pianist Timo Andres is a Nonesuch Records artist, a Yale School of Music graduate, a Yamaha/Bösendorfer Artist and is on the composition faculty at the Mannes School of Music at the New School. Timo Andres (b. 1985, Palo Alto, CA) is a composer and pianist who grew up in rural Connecticut, studied at the Yale School of Music, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. A Nonesuch Records artist, he has received wide acclaim for an album of orchestral works, Home Stretch, and for his debut album, Shy and Mighty. Current projects include an orchestral arrangement for Sufjan Stevens and New York City Ballet, Justin Peck’s “Principia;” a new work for the Calder Quartet through the LA Phil; and an oratorio for the Orchester Cottbus Staatstheater. Recently, Andres programmed and performed “American Perspective,” a concert with the Cincinnati Symphony, Andre de Ridder, Dance, and cellist Inbal Segev. He received his solo recital debut at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall in 2024. More »

Inbal Segev

Inbal Segev is “a cellist with something to say” (Gramophone), making solo appearances at leading international venues and with preeminent orchestras and conductors worldwide. Celebrated for her fresh insights into music’s great masterworks, the Israeli American cellist is equally committed to reinvigorating the cello repertoire, and has commissioned and premiered major new works from an international who’s who of today’s foremost contemporary composers. A native of Israel, Inbal Segev began playing the cello at the age of five. At 16 she was invited by Isaac Stern to the U.S., where she continued her cello studies with Aldo Parisot, Joel Krosnick, Harvey Shapiro and Beaux Arts Trio co-founder Bernard Greenhouse, earning degrees from Yale University and the Juilliard School. Today she lives in New York City with her husband, their three teenage children and her cellos, made by Francesco Ruggieri (1673) and Carl Becker & Son (1958) respectively. More »

Silas Brown

Silas Brown is a New York City area producer, engineer, and mastering engineer at Legacy Sound, who specializes in classical and jazz recordings. He has more than 25 years of production credits including many Grammy winning and nominated recordings. Since moving into immersive mixing and mastering, Silas has worked on new Atmos and Spatial Audio projects including releases for the Chicago Symphony, the Metropolitan Opera, Houston Grand Opera, and many others. Silas is an Assistant Professor in the Music and Technology Department at the Purchase College Conservatory of Music. More »