AWARDS

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We are a world-renowned multi Grammy Award winning mastering facility and have mastered many gold and platinum records. Numerous records worked on by the Lurssen Mastering team have been nominated for Grammys and Oscars over the years and several have won these prestigious awards.

Lurssen Mastering’s awards include Gavin’s four Grammys – a Latin Grammy for Best Engineered Album, two Grammy’s for Album of the Year and one for Best Historical category, as well as engineer Reuben Cohen’s Latin Grammy for Best Engineered Album, and his TEC Award for Record Production/Single or Track. The studio also has three TEC Awards – two for Best Facility and one for Outstanding Work, a G.A.N.G. (Game Audio Network Guild) award and a Pensado award.

Gavin Lurssen, Joe Palmaccio, Jerry Rappaport, Alex Gibney, Andy McKaie and Steve Berkowitz the night of the 2004 Grammys for Best Historical Record for Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues

Latin Grammy Awards 2010 where Gavin and Reuben both won the Grammy for Best Engineered Album, Distinto, by Diego Torres

Reuben Cohen (first from right) and Gavin Lurssen (second from right) each won a Latin Grammy for their work on Diego Torres’ album Distinto, which was nominated for Best Engineered Album at the 11th Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas on November 11, 2010. Pictured backstage with them are from left, Dan Warner and Lee Levin.

Grammy Winners Mastered At Lurssen Mastering

2023

Best Classical Compendium: An Adoption Story, Starr Parodi and Kitt Wakeley; Jeff Fair, Starr Parodi and Kitt Wakeley, producers.

2022

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media: The Queen’s Gambit, Soundtrack, Carlos Rafael Riviera, composer.
Best Bluegrass Album: My Bluegrass Heart, Béla Fleck.

2021

Best Reggae Album: Got To Be Tough, Toots & The Maytals.
Best Traditional R&B Performance: Anything For You, Ledisi.
Best Arrangement Instrumental or A Cappella: Donna Lee, John Beasley, arranger/producer.
Best Americana Album: World On the Ground, Sarah Jarosz.
Best Recording Package: Desert Sessions, VOLS. 11 & 12, Doug Cunningham & Jason Noto, Art directors.

2020

Best Ranchero/Mariachi Album: Hecho en México – Alejandro Fernandez – Latin Grammy
Best Arrangement: La Flor de la Canela – Lorenzo Ferrero, arranger (Afro-Peruvian Jazz Orchestra) – Latin Grammy

2019

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella: Stars and Stripes Forever – John Daversa, arranger

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: American Dreamers: Voices of Hope, Music Of Freedom – John Daversa Big Band Featuring DACA Artists

Best Improvised Jazz Solo: Don’t Fence Me In – John Daversa, soloist

Best Instrumental Composition: Blut Und Boden (Blood and Soil) – Terence Blanchard, composer

Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media: Black Panther – Ludwig Göransson, composer

Best Folk Album: All Ashore – Punch Brothers

Best Rock Performance: When Bad Does Good – Chris Cornell

2018

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album: Prototype, The Jeff Lorber Fusion

Best Contemporary Tropical Album: Vives, Carlos Vives

Best Folk Album: Musas, (Un Homenaje Al Folclore Latinoamericano En Manos De Los Macorinos), Vol. 2, Natalia Lafourcade

2017

Best Country Album: A Sailor’s Guide to Earth, Sturgill Simpson

Best Americana Album: This Is Where I Live, William Bell

Best Rock Album: La Gran Oscilación, Diamante Electrico

Best Rock Song: Déjala Rodar, Diamante Electrico

Best Folk Album: Musas, (Un Homenaje al Folclore Latinoamericano en Manos de los Macorinos), Vol. 1, Natalia Lafourcade

2016

Best Country Album: Platinum, Miranda Lambert

Best Music Video: Happy, Pharrell Williams

Best American Roots Song: A Feather’s Not a Bird, Rosanne Cash

Best American Roots Album: The River and the Thread, Rosanne Cash

Best New Age Album: Winds of Samsara, Wouter Kellerman and Ricky Kej

2015

Best Blues Album: Get Up, Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite

Best Recording Package: Long Night Moon, Reckless Kelly

Best Comedy Album: Calm Down Gurll, Kathy Griffin

2014

Best Song Written for Visual Media: Safe and Sound, Taylor Swift, featuring the Civil Wars from the Hunger Games soundtrack

2013

Best Song Written for Visual Media – I See the Light from the Tangled soundtrack

2012

Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media – The Weary Kind from Crazy Heart soundtrack
Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture – Crazy Heart soundtrack

2011

Best Engineered Album: Distinto, Diego Torres – Latin Grammy
Best Bluegrass Album: The Crow/New Songs for the Five-String Banjo, Steve Martin
Best Traditional Blues Album: A Stranger Here – Ramblin’ Jack Elliott
Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television, or Other Visual Media: Slumdog Millionaire, Various Artists
Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television, or Other Visual Media: Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire
Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television, or Other Visual Media: Up, Michael Giacchino, composer

Best Instrumental Composition: Married Life from Up

2010

Album of the Year: Raising Sand, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

Record of the Year: Please Read the Letter, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

2015 Pensado Award

Master of Mastering Category: Awarded to Gavin Lurssen

2015 TEC Award Winner

Record Production/Single or Track: Happy, Pharrell Williams, Awarded to Reuben Cohen

2015 CMA Winners

Album Of the Year: Platinum, Miranda Lambert

Single of the Year: Automatic, Miranda Lambert

2014 Golden Globe Winner

Best Original Score for a Motion Picture: All Is Lost

2014 AMA Winner

Top Soundtrack: Pitch Perfect

2011 Oscars Winners

Best Music (Original Score): Up, Michael Giacchino
Best Music (Original Song): The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart), Music and Lyrics by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett