Irvine Valley College Professor Dr. Matthew Tresler Receives Grammy Award

Congratulations to Irvine Valley College (IVC) Professor Matthew Tresler, DMA, for winning a Grammy Award yesterday evening as part of the choir Conspirare, which won the award for Best Choral Performance for “The Sacred Spirit of Russia.”

Dr. Tresler is the Academic Chair for Music, Professor of Music, and Choral and Vocal Area Coordinator for IVC’s School of the Arts. He has sung with Conspirare for the past 12 years, and has appeared on four recordings with them.

The Conspirare choir, based in Austin, Texas, is made up of singers from across the country. It has been nominated for six Grammy Awards. “The Sacred Spirit of Russia,” a collection of Christmas liturgical music from the Russian Orthodox Church, was recorded in 2013 at Austin’s St. Martin’s Lutheran Church.

For more information on the album, visit conspirare.org/album/the-sacred-spirit-of-russia/. Locally, Dr. Tresler sings with the Los Angeles Master Chorale. He will sing later this month at the National Conference of the American Choral Directors Association in Salt Lake City, with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, another professional chamber choir with which he has spent the last 15 summers singing.

Dr. Tresler also appeared on a Grammy-nominated recording with Seraphic Fire (based in Miami) a few years ago.


Robert Harlan, Craig Hella Johnson and Glenn Miller accept their Grammy Award on behalf of Conspirare.