Frost School of Music Dean Shelly Berg earned a Grammy nomination, his second, in the 2014 Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist category for Gloria Estefan’s “What a Wonderful World,” while UM alums Brian Losch got the nod for the Best Engineered Classical Album and Maria Schneider for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Dawn Upshaw’s Winter Morning Walks (ArtistShare).

In addition, UM Frost alumnus Andrew Scheps, B.M. ’89, was the engineer for Black Sabbath’s new album, 13, (Vertigo/Republic), which earned three 2014 Grammy nominations in Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song and Best Metal Performance categories. Scheps earned a 2011 Grammy Award in the Album of the Year category for his engineering work on Adele’s landmark album, 21(XL Recordings).

UM trustee and alumna Gloria Estefan, a multi-platinum and seven-time Grammy winning international vocal superstar, also was nominated  in the Best Traditional Pop Album category for the critically acclaimed Gloria Estefan: The Standards (Sony Masterworks), on which Berg’s latest nominated arrangement appears.

Berg, a Steinway piano artist and critically acclaimed recording artist, composer, arranger and orchestrator, was nominated in the same best arrangement category last year for  “Out There” on Lorraine Feather’s release, Tales of the Unusual (Jazzed Media). He and Emilio Estefan also co-produced The Standards album, on which Gloria Estefan served as producer.