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Seattle Symphony heads into Sunday's Grammy Awards ceremony with three nominations

The Seattle Symphony is leading all orchestras with three Grammy nods. Nominations for "Best Classical Instrumental Solo" and "Best Contemporary Classical Composition" stem from the symphony's recording of the Aaron Jay Kernis: Violin Concerto

The group also is in consideration for "Best Orchestral Performance" because of its recording of Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 3 "Sinfonia espansiva" and Symphony No. 4 "The Inextinguishable."

"This city is so vibrant," says assistant principal cellist Meeka DiLorenzo, who has been with the symphony for 10 years. "It's a first-class city, and there's a first-class orchestra in it. I'm honored to be a part of it."

KNKX's Ariel Van Cleave talked with DiLorenzo, as well as assistant principal timpanist Matthew Decker, about the nominations. 

Ariel first entered a public radio newsroom in 2004 while in school at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. It was love at first sight. After graduating from Bradley, she went on to earn a Master's degree in Public Affairs Reporting from the University of Illinois at Springfield. Ariel has lived in Indiana, Ohio and Alaska reporting on everything from salmon spawning to policy issues concerning education. She's been a host, a manager and now rides shotgun with Kirsten Kendrick as the Morning Edition producer at KNKX.