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Events

• January 1 – The 75th anniversary Vienna New Year's Concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra takes place at the Golden Hall of the Musikverein, conducted by Mariss Jansons.^[1]
• January 4 – The USA's National Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Gianandrea Noseda as its next music director, as of the 2017–2018 season, with an initial contract of 4 seasons.^[2]
• January 12 – Judge Sean H. Lane of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York confirmed a reorganisation plan by NYCO Renaissance for revival of New York City Opera.^[3]
• January 13 – Chetham's School of Music announces the appointment of Alun Jones as its new Head, effective September 2016.^[4]
• January 14
  • Minnesota Opera announces the appointment of Ryan Taylor as its next president and general director, effective 1 May 2016, with an initial contract of 5 years.^[5]
  • Los Angeles Opera announces the appointment of Matthew Aucoin as its first-ever artist-in-residence, effective with the 2016–2017 season, with an initial term of 3 years.^[6]
• January 18
  • The Artemis String Quartet announces the appointment of Anthea Kreston as its new second violinist. In parallel, Gregor Sigl, the quartet's second violinist, immediately takes the position of violist of the quartet.^[7]
  • The Boise Philharmonic Orchestra announces that music director Robert Franz is to conclude his music directorship of the orchestra at the close of the 2015–2016 season.^[8]
• January 20
  • Friedrich Haider announces his resignation as chief conductor of the Slovak National Theatre.^[9]
  • The Berklee College of Music and the Boston Conservatory sign an agreement to merge under the umbrella name of 'Berklee', with the Boston Conservatory location to take the name 'The Boston Conservatory at Berklee'.^[10]
  • The Castleton Festival announces suspension of its 2016 summer festival season, citing financial difficulties.^[11]
  • NYCO Renaissance, the successor organisation to New York City Opera, gives its first performance, of Puccini's Tosca.^[12]
• January 26 – The Orkest van het Oosten announces that Jan Willem de Vriend is to conclude his tenure as chief conductor at the end of the 2016–2017 season.^[13]
• January 27
  • The Léonie Sonning Music Foundation announces Leonidas Kavakos as the recipient of the Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2017.^[14]
  • The New York Philharmonic announces the appointment of Jaap van Zweden as its next music director, effective with the 2018–2019 season, with an initial contract of 5 seasons.^[15]
  • The Dallas Symphony Orchestra announces that Jaap van Zweden is to conclude his music directorship of the orchestra after the 2017–2018 season, and subsequently to take the title of conductor laureate as of the 2018–2019 season, for a scheduled 3-season period.^[16]
• January 28
  • Wigmore Hall live-streams performances for the first time.^[17]
  • The Opera di Firenze announces the appointment of Fabio Luisi as its next music director, the first conductor to hold that title with the company, and in parallel, as director of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, as of April 2018, with an initial contract of 5 years. In parallel, Zubin Mehta, the company's principal conductor, is to take the title of principal conductor emeritus.^[18]
• January 29
  • The Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation announces Per Nørgård as the recipient of the 2016 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize.^[19]
  • Oxford University announces the appointment of Natalie Clein as Director of Musical Performance in the Music Faculty, with an initial term of 4 years.^[20]
• February 2 – The Utah Symphony announces the appointment of Paul Meecham as the next president and chief executive officer of Utah Symphony and Utah Opera.^[21]
• February 3 – The Boston Classical Orchestra board of trustees votes to file for bankruptcy. The orchestra subsequently cancels the remainder of its 2015–2016 season and ceases operations.^[22]
• February 4
  • The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla as its next music director, effective September 2016, with an initial contract of 3 years.^[23]
  • A New York Times report indicates that Fabio Luisi is to stand down from the post of principal conductor of the Metropolitan Opera after the 2016–2017 season.^[24]
• February 7 – Saint Thomas Church, New York City announces the appointment of Daniel Hyde as its next music director.^[25]
• February 8 – The Long Island Philharmonic announces immediate cessation of operations and closure of the orchestra.^[26]
• February 10
  • Decca Classics announces the appointment of Alexander Buhr as its next managing director.^[27]
  • The Ojai Music Festival announces the appointments of its next series of music directors through 2021: Vijay Iyer (2017 season), Esa-Pekka Salonen (2018 season), Barbara Hannigan (2019 season), Patricia Kopatchinskaja (2020 season), and Mitsuko Uchida (2021 season).^[28]
• February 11 – The NDR Symphony Orchestra announces that it is to change its name to the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, as of 15 April 2016, as a reflection of its scheduled future residency in the new Elbphilharmonie concert hall in January 2017.^[29]
• February 15 – Vancouver Opera announces the appointment of Kim Gaynor as its next general director, effective 1 July 2016.^[30]
• February 18
  • The Tucson Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of José Luis Gomez as its next music director, as of the 2017–2018 season.^[31]
  • Charles Dutoit conducts the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (OSM) in his first appearance with the OSM since his sudden 2002 resignation from the OSM music directorship.^[32]
• February 19 – The Royal Philharmonic Society announces Sir Peter Maxwell Davies as the recipient of its 102nd Gold Medal.^[33]
• February 24
  • Ian Bostridge is announced as the winner of the 60th Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize for non-fiction writing, for his book Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession.^[34]
  • Opera North announces the appointment of Aleksandar Marković as its next music director, effective with the 2016–2017 season.^[35]
  • The London Mozart Players (LMP) announce the appointments of Nick Mallett as chair of the LMP Trust and of Julia Desbruslais as executive director of the LMP.^[36]
  • The Washington Chorus announces that Julian Wachner is to stand down as its music director after the 2016–2017 season.^[37]
• February 25 – The Ulster Orchestra announces the appointment of Richard Wigley as its new managing director, with immediate effect.^[38]
• February 26
  • The chorus of English National Opera have voted to take industrial action to protest proposed contract reductions.^[39]
  • The National Orchestra of Belgium announces the appointment of Hugh Wolff as its next music director, effective with the 2017-2018 season^[40]
  • The city of Bonn announces the appointment of Dirk Kaftan as the next Generalmusikdirektor of the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, effective August 2017, with an initial contract of 5 years.^[41]
• February 29 – The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra announces that Martin Hoffmann is to stand down as Intendant (General Manager) of the orchestra after the end of the 2016–2017 season.^[42]
• March 1 – The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, and the Staatskapelle Berlin jointly perform a free concert for newly arrived refugees and their helpers at the Philharmonie Berlin, under the banner of Willkommen in unserer Mitte ('Welcome among us'), under the patronage of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.^[43]
• March 2
  • The Bridgewater Hall announces the appointment of Andrew Bolt as its new chief executive.^[44]
  • The Trondheim Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Han-na Chang as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2017-2018 season.^[45]
  • Piotr Anderszewski announces that he is taking an undefined sabbatical from performing. His final concert before the start of his sabbatical was on 4 March 2016 in New York City.^[46]
• March 4 - The Theater Nordhausen and Loh-Orchester Sondershausen announce the appointment of Michael Helmrath as their next Generalmusikdirektor (GMD), for 2 seasons, from the period of 2016-2018.^[47]
• March 9 – The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden announces the appointment of William Spaulding as its next chorus director, effective with the 2016–2017 season.^[48]
• March 10
  • The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group announces the appointment of Stephan Meier as its next artistic director, effective August 2016.^[49]
  • The Boston Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Thomas Adès as its first-ever Artistic Partner, for a period of 3 years commencing in August 2016.^[50]
• March 14 - Mid Wales Opera announces the appointments of Jonathan Lyness as its next music director, and of Richard Studer as its next artistic director, effective April 2017.^[51]
• March 15 - The Landeskapelle Eisenach announces the appointment of Andreas Fellner as its new chief conductor, effective with the 2016-2017 season.^[52]
• March 18 - The chorus of English National Opera (ENO) announced that its union, Equity, negotiated with ENO management a guaranteed annual pay package of £35,000, rather than the management-proposed reduction to £30,685. The ENO chorus subsequently did not resort to industrial action in protest at the earlier proposal, as had been decided on 26 February.^[53]
• March 21 - The Gloucester Cathedral Choir announces that it is to recruit girl choristers for the first time in its history, in April 2016.^[54]
• March 22 - Mark Wigglesworth announces his resignation as music director of English National Opera, effective at the end of the 2015-2016 season.^[55]
• March 24 - The Orchestre national de Lille announces the appointment of Alexandre Bloch as its new music director, effective with the 2016-2017 season.^[56]
• March 29 - Jeff Melanson resigns as president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO). The orchestra announces that Sonia Baxendale is to be the TSO's interim CEO. Both actions are with immediate effect.^[57]
• April 5 - The Orchestre National de Lyon announces that Leonard Slatkin is to stand down as its music director after the 2016-2017 season, and subsequently to take the title of Directeur musical honoraire.^[58]
• April 13
  • The City of London Festival announces that it is ceasing operations.^[59]
  • NorrlandsOperan announces the appointment of Elim Chan as its next chief conductor, effective in 2017, with an initial contract of 3 years.^[60]
• April 14 - The Metropolitan Opera announces that James Levine is to retire as its music director at the end of the 2015=2016 season, and subsequently to take the title of music director emeritus.^[61]
• April 18 - The Royal Northern College of Music announces the appointment of Sir John Tomlinson as its next president, for a term of 5 years, effective January 2017.^[62]
• April 20 - The Scottish Chamber Orchestra announces the appointment of Gavin Reid as its next chief executive, effective 29 August 2016. In parallel, Reid is to stand down as director of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra on 28 August 2016.^[63]
• April 23 - The London Woodwind Orchestra, the first professional woodwind orchestra in the UK, gives its debut performance at St John's Smith Square.^[64]
• April 29 - English National Opera announces the appointment of Daniel Kramer as its next artistic director, effective 1 August 2016.^[65]

New works

• Hans Abrahamsen - Left, alone^[66]
• John Adams - Roll Over Beethoven^[67]
• Matthew Aucoin - Merrill Songs^[68]
• Michael Bakrnčev – Sky Jammer^[69]
• Sally Beamish
  • Chaconne (for organ)^[70]
  • A Shakespeare Masque (text by Carol Ann Duffy)
• Luke Bedford – Three Caves^[71]
• Lembit Beecher - Limestone^[72]
• Judith Bingham - The Orchid and Its Hunters^[73]
• Darren Bloom - Dr Glaser's Experiment^[74]
• Charlotte Bray – Agnus Dei^[75]
• Michael Brown - Surfaces^[76]
• Joshua Cerdinia - Spoliarium^[77]
• Friedrich Cerha – Sechs Postludien (composed 2014)^[78]
• Carlo Ciceri -šìr
• Seán Clancy - Seven Lines of Music Slow Down and Eventually Stop
• Desmond Clarke – Viola Concerto^[79]
• Anna Clyne – This Lunar Beauty^[80]
• Ronald Corp - "Behold, the sea"^[81]
• Richard Danielpour – The Wounded Healer (percussion concerto)^[82]
• Jean-Luc Darbellay
  • Miroirs (for solo cello)
  • Nocturne (for piano and string quartet)^[83]
• Stephen Deazley (music) and Martin Riley (text) - The Rattler^[84]
• Donnacha Dennehy: Tessellatum^[85]
• Richard Dubugnon – Piano Concerto^[86]
• Cathy van Eck - 412 Meter laufen
• Aurélio Edler-Copes – Presence^[87]
• Reena Esmail - Avartan for Orchestra and Video^[88]
• Ēriks Ešenvalds – Infelix ego^[75]
• Augustin Fernandez - Rio Bravo^[77]
• Edmund Finnis – Parallel Colour^[89]
• Alissa Firsova
  • Paradisi Gloria^[90]
  • Bride of the Wind^[91]
• Ryan Francis – Anthem (for violin and electronics)^[92]
• Paul Frehner (music) and Peter Mettler (video images) – From the Vortex Perspective^[93]
• Jeremy Gill – Serenada Concertante for Oboe and Orchestra^[94]
• Michael Zev Gordon – In the Middle of Things^[95]
• Sally Greenaway – Worlds Within Worlds^[69]
• Saad Haddad
  • Manarah^[88]
  • Takht^[77]
• Tom Harrold - Nightfires^[96]
• David Hertzberg - Sunday Morning^[97]
• Will Healy - Kolmanskop^[98]
• Markus Hofer – Duo
• Andrew Hsu - Vale^[98]
• Francisco Huguet – La flor mas rara
• Thomas Hyde - Piano Trio: after Picasso^[99]
• Tonia Ko
  • Games of Belief^[100]
  • Strange Sounds and Explosions Worldwide^[101]
• Hans Koller - Twelve Re-inventions for George Russell^[102]
• Olli Kortekangas – Migrations^[103]
• Franck Krawczyk - Après^[104]
• Alexander L'Estrange – Show me, deare Christ^[75]
• Vivian Lash^[105]
  • Music for Eight Lungs
  • Six Etudes and a Dream
• Kevin Lau – Concerto Grosso for Orchestra, String Quartet, and Turntables^[106]
• Jonathan Leshnoff - Clarinet Concerto ('Nekudim')^[107]
• Christian Lindberg – Robot Gardens^[108]
• David T. Little - Ghostlight^[109]
• Clare Maclean – 'That I Did Always Love'^[110]
• Kevin Malone – Unsung HerStories
• Harold Meltzer - Vision Machine^[111]
• Jocelyn Morlock – Undark^[112]
• Jeffrey Mumford – Three Windows (texts by Sonia Sanchez)^[113]
• Elizabeth Ogonek - Sleep & Unremembrance^[114]
• Scott Ordway - Tonight We Tell the Secrets of the World^[72]
• Mario Pagliarani - Mozartmaschine und Luftkadenz
• Ben Palmer - Flying in the Fire^[115]
• Roxanna Panufnik – Kyrie after Byrd^[75]
• Owain Park – Upheld by stillness^[75]
• Tobias Picker - Opera without Words^[116]
• Francis Pott – Laudate Dominum^[75]
• John Powell - A Prussian Requiem^[117]
• Gene Pritsker – Spirits
• Ryan Probert – Mattei^[118]
• Alexander Raskatov – Green Mass^[119]
• Wolfgang Rihm – Toccata capricciosa
• Derek Rodgers - Clarinet Concerto^[120]
• Ana-Maria Rodriguez - Les miroirs
• Matt Rogers - We Happened to Travel^[121]
• Peter Ruzicka - Elegie^[122]
• Alexandre Rydin – Psaume 61^[123]
• Mehmet Ali Sanlikol - Harabat / The Intoxicated^[88]
• Adam Schoenberg – Tres Mujeres (texts by Janine Salinas Schoenberg)^[113]
• Alfred Schweizer - Musik für Klavier zu vier Händen und Streicher (Piano Music for Four Hands and Strings)^[124]
• Sleeping Giant (composers' collective; individual composers and works listed below): Ash^[125]
  • Timo Andres – 'Small Wonder'
  • Christopher Cerrone
  • Jacob Cooper – 'Ley Lines'
  • Ted Hearne
  • Robert Honstein – 'Orison'
  • Andrew Norman – 'For Ashley'
• Samuel Smith – interior cities^[69]
• Will Stackpole - Aft Agley^[98]
• Steven Stucky - The Music of Light^[126]
• Iris Szeghy – It-Movements^[127]
• Hans Thomalla – Bagatellen^[128]
• Alex Turley – City of Ghosts^[69]
• Mark-Anthony Turnage – Strapless (ballet in one act, choreography by Christopher Wheeldon)^[129]
• Anne Wang - Quartered^[98]
• Roderick Williams – Ave verum corpus re-imagined^[75]
• René Wohlhauser – Une Nuit toute passionée
• Maurice Wright - Resounding Drums (concerto for timpani and orchestra)^[107]

New operas

• Michel van der Aa - Blank Out^[130]
• Konrad Boehmer and Albert Ostermaier – Sensor^[131]
• David Bruce and Glyn Maxwell – Nothing^[132]
• Emily Hall – Found and Lost^[133]
• Toshio Hosokawa and Hannah Duebgen – Stilles Meer^[134]
• Elena Langer and David Pountney – Figaro Gets a Divorce^[135]
• David T. Little and Royce Vavrek - JFK^[136]
• Stuart MacRae and Louise Welsh – The Devil Inside^[137]
• Mark Simpson and Melanie Challenger - Pleasure^[138]
• Miroslav Srnka and Tom Holloway – South Pole^[139]
• Philip Sunderland and Gareth Prior - The Glass Knight^[140]
• Peter-Anthony Togni and Sharon Singer - Isis and Osiris^[141]
• Rolf Wallin and Mark Ravenhill - Elysium^[142]
• Luna Pearl Woolf and Caitlin Vincent: Better Gods^[143]
• Du Yun and Royce Vavrek: Angel's Bone^[144]

Albums

• Alfred Brendel. The Complete Philips Recordings^[145]
• Walter Braunfels – Don Juan, Symphonic Variations^[146]
• Wolfgang Rihm – Two Other Movements; Abkehr; Schattenstück^[147]
• Hans Abrahamsen – let me tell you^[148]
• Spektral Quartet – Serious Business^[149]
• Brett Dean, Ross Edwards, Peter Sculthorpe – Amy Dickson (saxophone), Island Songs^[150]
• Robert De Visée – Intimité et grandeur^[151]
• Anders Hillborg – Sirens, Cold Heat;, Beast Sampler^[152]
• Elena Langer – Landscape with Three People^[153]
• Francis Chagrin – Symphonies Nos 1 and 2^[154]
• Louise Farrenc, Germaine Tailleferre, Pauline Viardot, Lili Boulanger, Mélanie Bonis, Claude Arrieu – Liberté, Égalité, Sororité^[155]
• Gabriel Kahane – The Fiction Issue^[156]
• Giacinto Scelsi – Complete Flute Music^[157]
• Scherben – Ensemble musikFabrik: Jonathan Harvey, Sringara Chaconne; Kaija Saariaho, Notes on Light; Nonne Poppe, Scherben; Emmanuel Nunes, Chessed I^[158]
• Marie Jaëll – Symphonic and Piano Music^[159]
• Beethoven - Symphonies Nos 4 and 5 (Concentus Musicus Wien; Nikolaus Harnoncourt)^[160]
• David Matthews – Complete String Quartets, Vol 4^[161]
• Henryk Górecki – Symphony No 4^[162]
• Mason Bates – The B-Sides, Alternative Energy, Liquid Interface^[163]
• Johannes Matthias Sperger – Symphonies^[164]
• Jake Heggie – "The Moon's a Gong, Hung in the Wild"^[165]
• Julian Anderson – In Lieblicher Bläue^[166]
• Gaetano Donizetti – Le Duc d'Albe^[167]
• Bent Sørensen – Works for Choir^[168]
• Philippe de Monte, William Byrd, Roxanna Panufnik, Francis Pott, Alexander L'Estrange, Owain Park, Charlotte Bray, Roderick Williams – Upheld by Stillness (ORA Choir)^[169]
• Arthur Honegger and Jacques Ibert - L'Aiglon^[170]
• Errolyn Wallen - Photography^[171]
• James Wood - Cloud-Polyphonies / Tongues of Fire^[172]
• Wim Henderickx - At the Edge of the World, Empty Mind 1, Groove!^[173]
• Thomas Adès, Per Nørgard, Hans Abrahamsen - Works for String Quartet^[174]
• Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari - I Gioielli della Madonna^[175]

Deaths

• January 1:
  • Alan S. Gordon, American labour union leader of arts and choral performers, 70^[176]
  • Gilbert Kaplan, American businessman and philanthropist, aficionado and amateur conductor of the music of Gustav Mahler, 71^[177]
• January 5 – Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor, 90^[178]
• January 6 – Marion Studholme, British soprano, 88^[179]
• January 13 – Bern Herbolsheimer, American composer, 67^[180]
• January 21 – Bogusław Kaczyński, Polish classical music journalist, 73^[181]
• January 23 – Robert Tuggle, American opera archivist, 83^[182]
• January 24 – Jacques Brourman, American conductor, 84^[183]
• January 25
  • Denise Duval, French soprano, 94^[184]
  • Leif Solberg, Norwegian composer and organist, 101^[185]
• January 29 – Aurèle Nicolet, Swiss flautist, 90^[186]
• February 2 – Carl David Hall, American orchestral flautist, 64^[187]
• February 3 – Saulius Sondeckis, Lithuanian violinist and conductor, 87^[188]
• February 4
  • Ulf Söderblom, Finnish conductor, 85^[189]
  • Leslie Bassett, American composer, 93^[190]
• February 14 – Steven Stucky, American composer, 66^[191]
• February 15
  • Piero Buscaroli, Italian musicologist, 85^[192]
  • Louis Lane, American conductor, 92^[193]
• February 17 - Rainer Mehne, German orchestral violinist, 68^[194]
• February 21 – Pascal Bentoiu, Romanian composer, 88^[195]
• February 25
  • Otto-Werner Mueller, German-born American conductor and conducting instructor, 89^[196]
• February 26
  • Eri Klas, Estonian conductor, 76^[197]
  • Sherwood Mobley, American timpanist and music administrator, 59^[198]
• February 28 – Winfried Maczewski, German-born chorus master, resident in The Netherlands, 74^[199]
• March 4 – Zhou Xiaoyan, Chinese vocal pedagogue and classical soprano, 98^[200]
• March 5 – Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Austrian conductor, cellist and scholar, 86^[201]
• March 8 – Sir George Martin, British recording producer, 90^[202]
• March 14 - Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, British composer, 81^[203]
• March 17 - Charles Kaufman, American music education administrator, 87^[204]
• March 20 - Peter Williams, British musicologist, 78^[205]
• March 23 - Gegham Grigoryan, Armenian opera singer, 65^[206]
• March 24 - Sir Peter Moores, British classical music philanthropist, 83^[207]
• March 31 - Bernard Lurie, American orchestra leader (concertmaster), 82^[208]
• April 4 - Royston Nash, British conductor, 82^[209]
• April 6 - Jeremy Siepmann, American-born British pianist, teacher, writer and broadcaster, 74^[210]
• April 8 - Marcel Farago, American orchestral cellist and composer, 92^[211]
• April 12 - Alan Loveday, New Zealand-born British violinist, 88^[212]
• April 15 - Guy Woolfenden, British composer, 79^[213]
• April 16 - Theo Lap, Dutch classical record label executive, 54^[214]
• April 18 - Brian Asawa, American opera singer, 49^[215]
• April 22 - Lincoln Clark, American opera director, 90^[216]
• April 24 - George Pieterson, Dutch orchestral clarinetist, 74^[217]
• April 27 - Gabriele Sima, Austrian mezzo-soprano, 61^[218]
• April 29 - Dmytro Hnatyuk, Ukrainian operatic baritone, 91^[219]

Major awards

• 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Music: Henry Threadgill - In for a Penny, In for a Pound
• 2016 Grawemeyer Award Winner in Music: Hans Abrahamsen – let me tell you

Grammy Awards

• Best Orchestral Performance: Dmitri Shostakovich – Under Stalin's Shadow – Symphony No. 10; Boston Symphony Orchestra; Andris Nelsons, conductor (Deutsche Grammophon)
• Best Opera Recording: Maurice Ravel: L'enfant et les sortilèges / Shéhérazade; Isabel Leonard et al.; Saito Kinen Orchestra; SKF Matsumoto Chorus & SKF Matsumoto Children's Chorus; Seiji Ozawa, conductor (Decca)
• Best Choral Performance: Sergei Rachmaninoff – All-Night Vigil; Kansas City Chorale and Phoenix Chorale; Charles Bruffy, conductor ((Chandos)
• Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: Filament – Eighth blackbird (Cédille Records)
• Best Classical Instrumental Solo: Henri Dutilleux – Violin Concerto (L'Arbre Des Songes), Symphony No. 2 ('Le Double'); Augustin Hadelich, violinist; Seattle Symphony; Ludovic Morlot, conductor (Seattle Symphony Media)
• Best Classical Solo Vocal Album: Joyce & Tony – Live From Wigmore Hall; Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano; Antonio Pappano, piano (Erato)
• Best Classical Compendium: Stephen Paulus – Three Places Of Enlightenment, Veil Of Tears, Grand Concerto; Nathan J. Laube, organist; Nashville Symphony; Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor (Naxos)
• Best Contemporary Classical Composition: Stephen Paulus – Prayers & Remembrances; True Concord Voices and Orchestra; Eric Holtan, conductor (Reference Recordings)

Juno Awards

Classical Albums of the Year:

• Solo or Chamber Ensemble: Cesar Franck and Richard Strauss, Violin Sonatas; James Ehnes and Andrew Armstrong (Onyx)
• Large Ensemble or Soloist(s) with Large Ensemble Accompaniment: Camille Saint-Saëns, Samy Moussa, and Kaija Saariaho, Symphonie et créations pour orgue et orchestre; Olivier Latry, Jean-Willy Kunz, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Kent Nagano, conductor (Analekta)
• Vocal or Choral Performance: Las Ciudades de Oro; L'Harmonie des Saisons (ATMA)

Classical Composition of the Year: Dinuk Wijeratne - Two Pop Songs on Antique Poems (Centrediscs)

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