Cyr's work leading Metropolis Ensemble in their first studio album earned him a Grammy nomination in 2010 (53rd Annual Grammy Awards), along with with mandolinist Avi Avital (soloist) for Avner Dorman's Mandolin Concerto, a work on Dorman's debut orchestral album Concertos. The album was released on the NAXOS label and was made in collaboration with Grammy-winner "Classical Producer of the Year" David Frost.

Cyr's next album with Metropolis Ensemble and also on NAXOS, Dreamscapes, featuring the music of Canadian-born composer Vivian Fung, recently garnered Canada's prestigious Juno Award in spring of 2013 for Best Classical Composition (Violin Concerto, Kristin Lee, soloist). This work was a Metropolis Ensemble commission and was premiered/recorded at Tanglewood's Ozawa Hall with producer/engineer Tim Martyn. Dreamscapes is Ms. Fung's debut orchestral album.

In the spring of 2013, Cyr will make his professional opera debut conducting David Bruce's new score, The Firework Maker's Daughter, at New Victory Theatre. The opera, a joint project between Royal Opera of London (II), The Opera Group, Opera North, is based on the novel by Philip Pullman and was adapted by librettist Glyn Maxwell. Upcoming projects include his first-time collaboration with Nonesuch Records, in a disk featuring newly commissioned works by Metropolis Ensemble from composer Timothy Andres. The album is set for release in June of 2013.

Cyr has been an early champion and advocate for many now rising stars and recent award winners in the composition world including Avner Dorman, David Bruce, Vivian Fung, Caroline Shaw, Erin Gee, Kati Agocs, Timothy Andres, Enrico Chapela, Anna Clyne, Brad Balliett, Jakub Ciupinski, Mohammed Fairouz, Elliot Cole, Ryan Francis, Ryan Gallagher, Raymond Lustig, Gity Razaz, Ricardo Romaneiro, Cristina Spinei, and Du Yun, among many others. To date, Cyr has helped commission, premiere, and record over 90 works of music from an eclectic mix of composers who are changing the shape and feel of contemporary music today.

Cyr has also collaborated with a number of major international performing artists who defy classification, including Oscar and Grammy-winning composer, artist, and conductor Tan Dun, ?uestlove and The Roots, the indie-rock sensation Deerhoof, 3-time Grammy-winning Producer of the Year David Frost, Reggie Watts, the French singer-songwriter Keren Ann, Paris-based David Babin from BabX, mandolinist Avi Avital, soprano Hila Plitmann, jazz saxophonists and composers Marty Ehrlich and David Murray, pianist/improviser D.D. Jackson, accordionist and composer Michael Ward-Bergeman and his U.K.-based roots trio Groanbox, harpist Bridget Kibbey, Brazilian producer Leo Leite, producer/engineer Tim Martyn, pianist Conor Hanick, soprano Kiera Duffy, violinist Kristin Lee, DJ THREE, and electronica artist Jeremy Ellis.

Cyr is a native of Fort Kent, Maine, and holds music degrees from Bates College, the French National Conservatory (Etudes Supérieures), and Westminster Choir College. His primary musical mentors include Dr. Joseph Flummerfelt, Kenneth Kiesler, Pierre Grandmaison, Marion Anderson, Harvey Burgett, and Kynan Johns. Cyr's work as conductor has been described by Esa-Pekka Salonen (Conductor, London Philharmonia) as "...precise, rhythmically incisive and fluid. He made complex new pieces sound natural and organic. What a pleasure it is to hear new music played with the same kind of panache and bravura we usually experience only in performances of standard repertoire."

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