Album wins GRAMMY® Award

Chris Cerrone's latest album, "Don't Look Down," featuring Sandbox Percussion, Conor Hanick and Elspeth Davis wins a GRAMMY® Award for Best Engineered, Classical.

Watch Mike Tierney’s acceptance speech here

Listen to Don’t Look Down: lnk.to/CerroneDontLookDown 

A huge congratulations to the winners—Mike Tierney, the album’s engineer, and Alan Silverman, the mastering engineer—whose incredible ear and technical wizardry made the album sound crisp, big, and exciting. Mike and Alan really captured the brilliance of Chris’ music, and the wide variety of percussion sounds, rhythms, melodies, grooves and noises that his meticulous scores call for. 

Accepting the award on the night were Mike Tierney, Christopher Cerrone, and Sandbox Percussion.

The 2025 album, released by PENTATONE, was also honored with nominations in two additional Grammy categories: Best Classical Compendium and Best Contemporary Classical Composition.

Among the multifaceted role of percussion in the current musical diaspora, perhaps one of its most important is its ability to simultaneously stretch our sonic soundworlds, yet remain accessible. Sandbox Percussion clearly manifests that on this album, [which] stretches and challenges the listeners’ ears.

— BBC Music Magazine

Don’t Look Down

1. Don’t Look Down: I - Hammerspace (4:48)

2. Don’t Look Down: II - The Great Empty (5:27)

3. Don’t Look Down: III - Caton Flats (6:12)

4. A Natural History of Vacant Lots (9:10)

5. Goldbeater’s Skin: 1 - Apocatastasis (2:47)

6. Goldbeater’s Skin: 2 - Interlude 1 - Wood (2:14)

7. Goldbeater’s Skin: 3 - In My Dream (1:53)

8. Goldbeater’s Skin: 4 - Interlude 2 - Metal (1:48)

9. Goldbeater’s Skin: 5 - My Companion and I (4:07)

10. Goldbeater’s Skin: 6 - Interlude III - Skin - Fatal Exception (2:00)

11. Goldbeater’s Skin: 7 - Against the Madness of Crowds (4:17)

12. Ode to Joy (9:43)