naxos records genre classical music country of origin united states official website http www.sonoluminus.com sono luminus is an american record label located in boyce virginia specializing in ultra high resolution recordings of acoustic music focusing primarily on classical music . contents 1 history 2 grammy awards 3 grammy nominations 4 other awards 5 references history edit sono luminus was created in 1995 by cisco systems founders sandy lerner and len bosack . they founded sono luminus with a less is more philosophy focused capturing real performances with microphone placement and quality acoustic spaces rather than using heavy post production . 1 in 2005 after producing recordings for several major and independent labels sono luminus purchased dorian recordings a label most noted for its extensive series of early music recordings . the acquisition of the dorian catalog gave them an archive of early music and latin american recordings and folk music . after the purchase sono luminus released two additional albums under the dorian name . from 2005 to 2010 after releasing just two albums under the dorian name the company then followed by 47 releases as dorian sono luminus . in january 2011 the name dorian was dropped beginning in february each new release had the new sono luminus logo . 2 as of november 2013 they had released 44 titles as sono luminus . grammy awards edit 2010 best engineered album classical quincy porter complete viola works by eliesha nelson ; brandie lane engineer 3 2012 best classical album latin grammy brasileiro works of francisco mignone by cuarteto latinoamericano ; daniel shores engineer dan merceruio producer 4 grammy nominations edit 2008 best small ensemble das lied von der erde by the smithsonian chamber players 5 2009 best classical crossover indigo road by ronn mcfarlane 2010 best chamber music performance quincy porter complete viola works by eliesha nelson 2010 best chamber music performance radames gnattali solo & chamber works for guitar by marc regnier 2010 best instrumental soloist performance without orchestra 20th century harp sonatas by sarah schuster ericsson 2010 best instrumental soloist performance with orchestra quincy porter complete viola works by eliesha nelson 2010 best opera recording hasse marc antonio e cleopatra by ars lyrica houston 2011 best small ensemble kingdoms of castille by el mundo 2012 best classical instrumental solo the complete harpsichord works of rameau by jory vinikour 6 2012 best chamber music small ensemble mind meld by zofo 6 2012 best chamber music small ensemble rupa khandha by los angeles percussion quartet 6 2012 best chamber music small ensemble americana by modern mandolin quartet 6 2012 best engineered classical album americana by modern mandolin quartet ; daniel shores engineer 6 2012 best surround sound album rupa khandha by los angeles percussion quartet ; daniel shores engineer 6 2012 producer of the year classical dan merceruio 6 2013 best surround sound album sprung rhythm by inscape ; daniel shores surround mix engineer ; daniel shores surround mastering engineer ; dan merceruio surround producer 7 2015 best classical instrumental solo toccatas by jory vinikour 8 2015 producer of the year classical dan merceruio 9 other awards edit 2007 audio engineering society s award of excellence in high resolution audio 10 references edit sonoluminus.com sono luminus about us . sono luminus.blogspot.com sono luminus name change blog post . cnn.com west point soldier gets a grammy salute . latingrammy.com past winners search . smithsonianchambermusic.org smithsonian chamber music . a b c d e f g grammy.com 2012 grammy classical nominee listing . 1 2013 la times grammy nominee list . http www.grammy.com nominees genre 5 https www.grammy.com nominees genre 25 aes.com aes member profile . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sono luminus & oldid 700599902 categories recording industry association of americaamerican record labelscompanies based in virginiaclassical music record labels navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 19 january 2016 at 14 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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