Recordings Oppens's discography includes a recording on Vanguard of Frederic Rzewski's "The People United Will Never Be Defeated" and a version on American Piano Music of Our Time of Elliott Carter's Night Fantasies. Overall, Oppens's body of recordings—which has received four Grammy nominations to date—forms a survey of American contemporary piano music which, in addition to the aforementioned listings, also includes the complete piano music of Elliott Carter and John Corigliano, and compositions by John Adams, Julius Hemphill, Conlon Nancarrow and Tobias Picker, among others. Oppens has also set to disc a group of Beethoven piano sonatas and piano pieces for the Music & Arts label. To date Oppens has recorded for the following labels: Cedille, Wergo, Music & Arts, Vanguard Classics, Mode, Montaigne, CRI, Nuevo Era, Naxos, Angel, New World, Arte Nova, Nonesuch, Albany Records, Mark Masters, Summit, Boosey & Hawkes, New World, DeNote, Watt Works, and Bridge. Complete discography SOLO RECORDINGS: Grammy Nomination OTHER SOLO RECORDINGS: Gramophone Magazine 1999 Awards Issue: Voted best 20th-Century Chamber Music Recording RECORDINGS WITH ORCHESTRA: CHAMBER MUSIC RECORDINGS: Prizes and honors Grammy nomination, 2011 Winging It: The Piano Music of John Corigliano Grammy nomination 2009 Oppens Plays Carter Alumna Recognition Award, Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study 2005 Letter of Distinction, American Music Center 2002 Convention Artist, MTNA 2000 Paul Fromm Award-University of Chicago 1998 Grammy nomination 1990 American Piano Music of Our Time Phi Beta Kappa (honorary) 1990 Grammy nomination 1980 Frederic Rzewski, The People United Will Never Be Defeated Record World Award 1979 Avery Fisher Career Grant 1976 Martha Baird Rockefeller Grant 1970 Gold Medal Busoni International Piano Competition, 1969 Diploma d'onore Accademia Chigiana 1969 Josef Lhévinne Scholarship 1966 National Merit Scholarship 1961 References http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/o/ursula_oppens/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20060418142330/http://colbertartists.com/ArtistBio.asp?ID=41 http://www.hemsingpr.com/artist/27 http://www.bcmusic.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=FacDetail&facid=106 External links Interview with Ursula Oppens, April 29, 1990 Colbert Artists Management Inc. 1944 births American classical pianists Living people American women classical pianists Musicians from New York City 20th-century American pianists Jewish classical pianists Juilliard School alumni Radcliffe College alumni Brearley School alumni 20th-century American women pianists Classical musicians from New York (state) 21st-century classical pianists 21st-century American women pianists 21st-century American pianists Brooklyn College faculty Music & Arts artists Cedille Records artists Nonesuch Records artists