Austin-based, five-time Grammy®-nominated professional choir Conspirare has received yet another prestigious nomination, this time for an Edison Award in the category Choral Music for its CD Requiem. The Edison Award is the Netherlands’ equivalent of the Grammy, and the nomination is Conspirare’s first such nod at the international level.

Requiem was first released in the U.S. by the Clarion label in 2006 and garnered Conspirare’s first two Grammy nominations, for Best Choral Performance and Best Engineered Album, Classical. In 2009 Conspirare’s present label Harmonia Mundi re-issued the disc in the U.S. and released it for the first time in Europe, making it eligible for the Dutch award nomination. The 2010 winners will be announced on June 18.

The Edison Award, named for the inventor of the phonograph, is the oldest and most prestigious Dutch music prize, presented since 1960. For more information about the Edison Award, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_Award. For a direct link to the Edison Award’s Dutch-language website, click http://tinyurl.com/26tnley.