2023 Grammy Nominations Announced

This year BIPOC classical composers' works have been Grammy nominated in several award categories and BIPOC classical musicians perform on a number of Grammy nominated recordings in the Classical Music category, as well as the Americana category.

The Grammy Award is presented by the Recording Academy to recognize "Outstanding Achievement in the music industry" by U.S. based artists. The Grammy award show will be broadcast live from Los Angeles on Feb. 5, 2023. The complete list of Grammy nominees can be found here. 

 Best Orchestral Performance

  • Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7-9

  • Gustavo Dudamel, conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic)

  • Eastman: Stay On It

  • Christopher Rountree, conductor (Wild Up)

  • Works By Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery, Valerie Coleman

  • Michael Repper, conductor (New York Youth Symphony)

Best Opera Recording

  • Blanchard: Fire Shut Up In My Bones

  • Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Angel Blue, Will Liverman, Latonia Moore & Walter Russell III; David Frost, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)

  • Davis: X - The Life And Times Of Malcolm X

  • Gil Rose, conductor; Ronnita Miller, Whitney Morrison, Victor Robertson & Davóne Tines; Gil Rose, producer (Boston Modern Orchestra Project; Odyssey Opera Chorus)

Best Choral Performance

  • Verdi: Requiem - The Met Remembers 9/11

  • Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Donald Palumbo, chorus master (Michelle DeYoung, Eric Owens, Ailyn Pérez & Matthew Polenzani; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

  • Beethoven: Complete String Quartets, Volume 2 - The Middle Quartets

  • Dover Quartet

  • Musical Remembrances

  • Neave Trio

  • Shaw: Evergreen

  • Attacca Quartet

  • What Is American

  • PUBLIQuartet

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

  • Beethoven: Diabelli Variations

  • Mitsuko Uchida

  • Letters For The Future

  • Time For Three; Xian Zhang, conductor (The Philadelphia Orchestra)

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

  • Stranger - Works For Tenor By Nico Muhly

  • Nicholas Phan, soloist (Eric Jacobson; Brooklyn Rider & The Knights; Reginald Mobley)

  • Okpebholo: Lord, How Come Me Here?

  • Will Liverman, soloist; Paul Sánchez, pianist (J’Nai Bridges & Caen Thomason-Redus)

Best Classical Compendium

  • Aspire

  • JP Jofre & Seunghee Lee; Enrico Fagone, conductor; Jonathan Allen, producer

  • The Lost Birds

  • Voces8; Barnaby Smith & Christopher Tin, conductors; Sean Patrick Flahaven & Christopher Tin, producers

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

  • Puts: Contact

  • Kevin Puts, composer (Xian Zhang, Time for Three & The Philadelphia Orchestra)

  • Simon: Requiem For The Enslaved

  • Carlos Simon, composer (Carlos Simon, MK Zulu, Marco Pavé & Hub New Music).  

Best Americana Performance

  • The Message

  • Blind Boys Of Alabama Featuring Black Violin

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