New Grammy Winning Arkai Duo: Inside Their Big Win
3/7/202624 min
ARKAI is a GRAMMY® award-winning electroacoustic duo that has captivated audiences around the world with their creative imagination and cutting-edge string music.
Graduates of the famed Juilliard School, ARKAl's signature sound has led them to hundreds of shows around the world that include esteemed performances at GRAMMYs On The Hill and Carnegie Hall, opening for GRAMMY and Oscar-winning musician Jon Batiste, and joint recording projects like ICARUS - Orchestral Version with piano sensation Tony Ann and Decca Records.
They recently opened and performed with Ann at the legendary Troubadour club in LA for back to b...
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First 90 secondsDarrell Craig Harris· Host0:01
Arkai duo, how are you guys doing today?
Jonathan Mirin· Guest0:02
Doing great. So happy to be here.
Darrell Craig Harris· Host0:05
Awesome. Well, thanks for joining me. So we have Jonathan, uh, is it Myrin?
Jonathan Mirin· Guest0:08
That's right.
Darrell Craig Harris· Host0:10
And we have Philip, uh, Shigeog.
Philip Sheegog· Guest0:12
Shigeog, yep. First accent on everything for us.
Darrell Craig Harris· Host0:15
[laughs] All right, cool. Good. I'm gl- I'm always... The, the last name thing is always a bit of a challenge, so that's good. Easy to, easy to pronounce. So you guys just won the best contemporary instrumental album Grammy this year, which is amazing, and very s- very stiff competition in that category. A lot of, a lot of great musicians. Let's talk about how you guys first came together and met. I think you went to Juilliard, is that correct?
Jonathan Mirin· Guest0:37
Yeah, that's right. So both Philip and I are classically trained, and we went to the Juilliard School in New York, but we actually didn't meet at school. Um, I'm a little older than Philip. Um, and though we overlapped at Juilliard, we didn't meet in the building, which is kind of crazy actually, because it's a very, very small place, about 700 students, and you're kind of, like, all just in the same building, and so you're bound to meet one another. We didn't meet each other. So it took a conference that was hosted at Juilliard, uh, where we were repping the school, and one day after classes, uh, there was a party, and we had our instruments with us, and Philip and I just started to jam, and there was a whole room of people, so you can imagine, like, well, we were kind of like the DJs that night, and so we jammed for over an hour. The whole room started singing