Béla Fleck, Marin Alsop, JoAnn Falletta, Daniela Mack, Ryan McKinny, Michael Chioldi, Nicholas Phan, Yo-Yo Ma, Leonidas Kavakos & Emanuel Ax
2025 GRAMMY Nominations
The 2025 GRAMMY nominations are in! Congratulations to Béla Fleck, Marin Alsop, JoAnn Falletta, Daniela Mack, Ryan McKinny, Michael Chioldi, Nicholas Phan, Yo-Yo Ma, Leonidas Kavakos, Emanuel Ax, Mason Bates, and Christopher Rountree. A special shout out also goes to John Holiday and William Burden who appeared on Best Opera Recording nominee “Puts: The Hours”.
Best Jazz Performance
“Juno” — Chick Corea & Béla Fleck
Best Jazz Instrumental Album
Remembrance — Chick Corea & Béla Fleck
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
Rhapsody In Blue — Béla Fleck
Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella
“Rhapsody In Blue(Grass)” — Béla Fleck & Ferde Grofé, arrangers (Béla Fleck Featuring Michael Cleveland, Sierra Hull, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz & Bryan Sutton)
Best Orchestral Performance
“Adams: City Noir, Fearful Symmetries & Lola Montez Does The Spider Dance” — Marin Alsop, conductor (ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra)
“Kodály: Háry János Suite; Summer Evening & Symphony In C Major” — JoAnn Falletta, conductor (Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra)
Best Engineered Album, Classical
Adams: Girls Of The Golden West – Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay, engineers; Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay, mastering engineers (John Adams, Daniela Mack, Ryan McKinny, Paul Appleby, Hye Jung Lee, Elliot Madore, Julia Bullock, Davóne Tines, Los Angeles Philharmonic & Los Angeles Master Chorale)
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7; Bates: Resurrexit — Mark Donahue & John Newton, engineers; Mark Donahue, mastering engineer (Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
Best Opera Recording
Adams: Girls Of The Golden West – John Adams, conductor; Paul Appleby, Julia Bullock, Hye Jung Lee, Daniela Mack, Elliot Madore, Ryan McKinny & Davóne Tines; Dmitriy Lipay, producer (Los Angeles Philharmonic; Los Angeles Master Chorale)
Catán: Florencia En El Amazonas – Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Mario Chang, Michael Chioldi, Greer Grimsley, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Mattia Olivieri, Ailyn Pérez & Gabriella Reyes; David Frost, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)
Saariaho: Adriana Mater – Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Fleur Barron, Axelle Fanyo, Nicholas Phan & Christopher Purves; Jason O’Connell, producer (San Francisco Symphony; San Francisco Symphony Chorus; Timo Kurkikangas)
“Puts: The Hours” — Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Joyce DiDonato, Renée Fleming & Kelli O’Hara; David Frost, producer (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Metropolitan Opera Chorus) Featuring John Holiday and William Burden
Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
A Change Is Gonna Come – Nicholas Phan, soloist; Palaver Strings, ensembles
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
Saariaho: Adriana Mater – Kaija Saariaho, composer (Esa-Pekka Salonen, Fleur Barron, Nicholas Phan, Christopher Purves, Axelle Fanyo, San Francisco Symphony Chorus & Orchestra)
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
“Beethoven For Three: Symphony No. 4 and Op. 97, ‘Archduke'” — Yo-Yo Ma, Leonidas Kavakos & Emanuel Ax
Best Classical Instrumental Solo
“Eastman: The Holy Presence Of Joan D’Arc” — Seth Parker Woods; Christopher Rountree, conductor (Wild Up)
Best Classical Compendium
Foss: Symphony No. 1; Renaissance Concerto; Three American Pieces; Ode — JoAnn Falletta, conductor; Bernd Gottinger, producer