Wes Dyring has hundreds of recording and other media credits in a diversity of genres. He has played in most of the Seattle Symphony’s compact discs and video productions, which have garnered five Grammy Awards, 26 Grammy nominations, two Emmy Awards and was named Gramophone’s 2018 Orchestra of the Year. He has also played on Grammy-winning CDs with other artists.
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Other Recordings
Seattle Symphony’s Grammy-Winning Become Ocean
In May 2014 the Seattle Symphony performed to great media fanfare at the Spring for Music Festival in Carnegie Hall, one of several orchestras selected for their interesting programs. The work at the festival garnering the most attention was Become Ocean by Alaskan composer John Luther Adams, a commission by Music Director Ludovic Morlot for the Seattle Symphony, for which won Adams the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Music. The Symphony’s recording of this incredible work won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Classical Composition, the first Grammy award for the orchestra. Learn more
Become Ocean is available as a CD through Amazon.com, also available as a download or through iTunes.
The Seattle Symphony also has an extensive catalogue of over 140 recordings, which have garnered numerous Grammy Award nominations throughout its history. Click here to view the full catalogue on Naxos.
Seattle Opera Ring Cycle
Seattle Opera has been famous for many years for its outstanding productions of Richard
Wagner’s four-opera cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen. Seattle Opera has now released a 14-album set of its 2013 Ring production through AVIE Records, which is available on both Amazon and iTunes. It can also be purchased through Seattle Opera’s Gift Shop.
Grammy-Winning Dave Matthews CD
Wes appears on Dave Matthews’ first solo CD, Some Devil, which won a Grammy in 2004 for “Best Male Rock Vocal Performance” for the song “Gravedigger.”
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Grammy-Winning Soundtrack from Mr. Holland’s Opus
The original motion picture score for the 1996 movie Mr. Holland’s Opus, composed by Michael Kamen and recorded by the Seattle Symphony, won a Grammy for Best Soundtrack.
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