Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance (With or Without Conductor)
2026 • 68th Annual Grammy Awards
Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 2024 and Aug 30, 2025
2026 Winner is Alan Pierson & Alarm Will Sound with "Dennehy: Land Of Winter"
Nominees 2026
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Dennehy: Land Of Winter
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La Mer - French Piano Trios
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Lullabies For The Brokenhearted
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Slavic Sessions
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Standard Stoppages
Winners
| Year | Winner | Work |
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| 2026 | Alan Pierson, Alarm Will Sound | Dennehy: Land Of Winter |
| 2025 | Caroline Shaw, Sō Percussion | Rectangles And Circumstance |
| 2024 | Roomful Of Teeth | Rough Magic |
| 2023 | Attacca Quartet | Shaw: Evergreen |
| 2022 | Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax | Beethoven: Cello Sonatas - Hope Amid Tears |
| 2021 | Pacifica Quartet, Simin Ganatra, Austin Hartman, Mark Holloway, Brandon Vamos | Contemporary Voices |
| 2020 | Attacca Quartet | Shaw: Orange |
| 2019 | Laurie Anderson, Kronos Quartet | Anderson, Laurie: Landfall |
| 2018 | Patricia Kopatchinskaja, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra | Death & The Maiden |
| 2017 | Third Coast Percussion, Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, David Skidmore | Steve Reich |
| 2016 | Eighth Blackbird | Filament |
| 2015 | Hilary Hahn | In 27 Pieces - The Hilary Hahn Encores |
| 2014 | Brad Wells, Roomful Of Teeth, Cameron Beauchamp, Dashon Burton, Martha Cluver, Eric Dudley, Estelí Gomez, Avery Griffin, Caroline Shaw, Virginia Warnken | Roomful Of Teeth |
| 2013 | Eighth Blackbird, Matt Albert, Matthew Duvall, Lisa Kaplan, Michael Maccaferri, Tim Munro, Nicholas Photinos | Meanwhile |
| 2012 | Eighth Blackbird, Matt Albert, Matthew Duvall, Lisa Kaplan, Michael Maccaferri, Tim Munro, Nicholas Photinos | Mackey: Lonely Motel - Music From Slide |
| 2011 | Jordi Savall, Hesperion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya | Dinastia Borja |
| 2010 | Paul Hillier, Ars Nova Copenhagen, Thomas Kiorbye, Theatre Of Voices | Lang, David: The Little Match Girl Passion |
| 2009 | Charles Bruffy, Phoenix Chorale | Spotless Rose: Hymns To The Virgin Mary |
| 2008 | Yuri Bashmet, Moscow Soloists | Stravinsky: Apollo, Concerto In D; Prokofiev: 20 Visions Fugitives |
| 2007 | Peter Rutenberg, Los Angeles Chamber Singers' Capella, Corey Carleton | Padilla: Sun Of Justice |
| 2006 | Pierre Boulez, Ensemble InterContemporain, Odile Auboin, Vincent Bauer, Michel Cerutti, Samuel Favre, Marie-Therese Ghirardi, Emmanuelle Ophèle | Boulez: Le Marteau Sans Maître, Dérive 1 & 2 |
| 2005 | Jeff Von Der Schmidt | Carlos Chávez - Complete Chamber Music, Vol. 2 |
| 2004 | Jeff Von Der Schmidt, Southwest Chamber Music | Chávez: Suite For Double Quartet |
| 2003 | Joseph Jennings | Tavener: Lamentations & Praises |
| 2002 | Gidon Kremer | After Mozart - Raskatov, Silvestrov & Schnittke |
| 2001 | Orpheus Chamber Orchestra | Shadow Dances - Stravinsky Miniatures, Tango, Suite No. 1 & Octet |
| 2000 | Joseph Jennings, conductor; Chanticleer | Colors Of Love - Works Of Thomas, Stucky, Tavener & Rands |
| 1999 | Steve Reich & Musicians | Reich: Music For 18 Musicians |
| 1998 | Claudio Abbado, conductor | Hindemith: Kammermusik No. 1 With Finale 1921, Op. 24 No. 1 |
| 1997 | Pierre Boulez, conductor; Ensemble Intercontemporain | Boulez: ...Explosante-Fixe... |