The 2017 JUNO Award Nomination have been announced today at a press conference at Toronto’s Rebel Nightclub.
Competition in each of the four Classical Music categories looks fierce with many standouts. For solo or chamber ensemble we have Charles Richard-Hamelin, Janina Fialkowska, Stewart Goodyear, Matt Haimovitz, and the New Orford String Quartet. In the vocal category are Tapestry Opera’s Dark Star Requiem, MSO, TSO, and Daniel Taylor and the Arion Baroque Orchestre. In the large-ensemble category are Tafelmusik, Tapestry Opera, Steve Wood and the Northern Cree Singers, Tanya Tagaq, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier, Les Violons du Roy & Mathieu Lussier, and Jan Lisiecki. In the coveted classical composition category are Christos Hatzis, Kati Agócs, Jordan Nobles, Ana Sokolović, Andrew Staniland.
Congrats to all!
Classical Album of the Year: Solo or Chamber Ensemble
- Schubert: Sonatas and Impromptus – Janina Fialkowska
- Overtures to Bach — Matt Haimovitz
- Brahms: String Quartets, Op. 51 NOS. 1 & 2 — New Orford String Quartet
- Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, OP. 71 TH14 — Stewart Goodyear
- Beethoven, Enescu & Chopin: Works for Piano (Live) — Charles Richard-Hamelin
Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral Performance
- L’Aiglon — Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Kent Nagano
- Dark Star Requiem — Tapestry Opera, Gryphon Trio, Elmer Iseler Singers
- Handel Messiah — Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Sir Andrew Davis
- Four Thousand Winter — Daniel Taylor, The Trinity Choir
- Bach: Magnificat BWV 243 — Arion Baroque Orchestre, Alexandre Weimann
Classical Album of the Year: Large Ensemble or Soloist(s) with Large Ensemble Accompaniment
- Beethoven Symphony No. 9 — Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir
- Going Home Star – Truth and Reconciliation — Steve Wood and the Northern Cree Singers, Tanya Tagaq, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
- Poulenc: Piano Concertos & Aubade — Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier, BBC Philharmonic
- Vivaldi: Concertos — Les Violons du Roy & Mathieu Lussier
- Schumann — Jan Lisiecki, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Classical Composition of the Year
- Going Home Star – Truth and Reconciliation — Christos Hatzis
- The Debrecen Passion — Kati Agócs
- Immersion — Jordan Nobles
- And I need a room to receive five thousand people with raised glasses…or…what a glorious day, the birds are singing “halleluia” — Ana Sokolović
- Dark Star Requiem — Andrew Staniland
For a list of the complete nominations, visit here.
The 46th annual JUNO awards will take place in Ottawa’s Canadian Tire Centre between March 27 and April 2, with the live broadcast airing on CTV and CTV Go on Sunday, April 2.
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