David Frost is an American classicalrecord producer andpianist. He has won 25 Grammy Awards for his work including seven wins forProducer of the Year, Classical.[1] He is a music producer for the Metropolitan Opera[2] and has recorded major orchestras including theNew York Philharmonic,Chicago Symphony Orchestra, andLos Angeles Philharmonic.
Frost is the son of Grammy Award-winning record producerThomas Frost. Frost has a bachelor's and master's degree from theJuilliard School of Music. He is an accomplished pianist, and has performed atCarnegie Hall.[1] He has been a record producer since his late 20s.[2]
He has worked with numerous labels, includingRCA Red Seal,Sony Classical,London/Decca,Deutsche Grammophon andEMI Classics. As a staff producer at BMG Classics (RCA Red Seal) for nearly a decade, he collaborated with many of their most important artists such asAndré Previn, SirColin Davis,Leonard Slatkin,Anne Akiko Meyers,The Tokyo String Quartet,János Starker,Luciano Berio and the pianistsAlicia de Larrocha,Evgeny Kissin,Rudolf Firkusny andVan Cliburn. He has also been a guest faculty member ofThe Banff Centre. He is the son ofThomas Frost, who won the 1986 Grammy for Classical Producer of the Year.
Frost was producer for the Grammy Award-winningVerismo and Grammy-nominatedHomage with sopranoRenée Fleming,Kathleen Battle's Sony Classical releaseGrace, and Decca'sStar Crossed Lovers withRenée Fleming,Plácido Domingo andDaniel Barenboim. He has produced operatic tracks for several film soundtracks, includingA Midsummer Night's Dream with sopranoRenée Fleming, andThe Man Who Cried with tenorSalvatore Licitra. He has collaborated with directorBaz Luhrmann, producing the Broadway Cast Album ofPuccini'sLa Boheme forDreamWorks Records.
He recently has produced recordings with the Chicago Symphony and conductorsRiccardo Muti and Pierre Boulez, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel, pianist Jonathan Biss and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Anne Akiko Meyers, the Eroica Trio, guitarist Sharon Isbin, violinist and composer Mark O'Connor, the Kansas City Symphony, and The Five Browns. Serving as audio producer forPBS Great Performances, he has collaborated with Andrea Bocelli, Tony Bennett, Celine Dion, Chris Botti, Audra MacDonald, Yo-Yo Ma, Gil Shaham, Emanuel Ax, and conductor Alan Gilbert leading the New York Philharmonic, as well as Itzhak Perlman and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. He is a Music Producer for the Metropolitan Opera and his work includes the Decca DVD release ofDer Rosenkavalier withRenée Fleming and the Sony DVD release ofOtello with Sonya Yoncheva.
In 2014 he won three Grammy awards forProducer of the Year, Classical,Best Engineered Album, Classical for Maria Schneider'sWinter Morning Walks and forBest Classical Vocal Performance for Dawn Upshaw in "Winter Morning Walks". In 2012 his production of Steven Mackey'sLonely Motel with eighth blackbird and Rinde Eckert won a Grammy Award forBest Small Ensemble Performance. In 2011 he won four awards includingProducer of the Year, Classical. He had won this category in 2005 and 2009 as well. In 2009 he also won a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical, forTraditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago, withYo-Yo Ma, theSilk Road Ensemble and theChicago Symphony. He was the producer for Alicia de Larocha's RCA recording of Granados' Goyescas, which won both a Grammy and the Grand Prix du Disque.
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