Best Choral Performance, Classical
2026 • 68th Annual Grammy Awards
Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 2024 and Aug 30, 2025
2026 Winner is Gustavo Dudamel & Grant Gershon with "Ortiz: Yanga"
Nominees 2026
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Ortiz: Yanga
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Advena - Liturgies For A Broken World
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Childs: In The Arms Of The Beloved
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Lang: Poor Hymnal
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Requiem Of Light
Winners
| Year | Winner | Work |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Gustavo Dudamel, Grant Gershon | Ortiz: Yanga |
| 2025 | Donald Nally | Ochre |
| 2024 | Nils Schweckendiek | Saariaho: Reconnaissance |
| 2023 | Donald Nally | Born |
| 2022 | Gustavo Dudamel, Grant Gershon, Robert Istad, Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, Luke McEndarfer | Mahler: Symphony No. 8, 'Symphony Of A Thousand' |
| 2021 | James K. Bass, Adam Luebke, JoAnn Falletta | Danielpour: The Passion Of Yeshua |
| 2020 | Robert Simpson | Duruflé: Complete Choral Works |
| 2019 | Donald Nally | McLoskey: Zealot Canticles |
| 2018 | Donald Nally | Bryars: The Fifth Century |
| 2017 | Krzysztof Penderecki | Penderecki Conducts Penderecki, Volume 1 |
| 2016 | Charles Bruffy | Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil |
| 2015 | Craig Hella Johnson | The Sacred Spirit Of Russia |
| 2014 | Tonu Kaljuste | Pärt: Adam's Lament |
| 2013 | Charles Bruffy | Life & Breath - Choral Works By René Clausen |
| 2012 | Eric Whitacre | Light & Gold |
| 2011 | Duain Wolfe, Riccardo Muti | Verdi: Requiem |
| 2010 | Michael Tilson Thomas | Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio From Symphony No. 10 |
| 2009 | Simon Halsey, Simon Rattle | Symphony Of Psalms |
| 2008 | Simon Halsey, Simon Rattle | Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem |
| 2007 | Paul Hillier | Pärt: Da Pacem |
| 2006 | Leonard Slatkin | Bolcom: Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience |
| 2005 | Robert Spano | Berlioz: Requiem |
| 2004 | Tiia-Ester Loitme, Ants Soots, Paavo Järvi | Sibelius: Cantatas |
| 2003 | Robert Spano | Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony (Sym. No. 1) |
| 2002 | Norbert Balatsch, Erwin Ortner, Nikolaus Harnoncourt | Bach: St. Matthew Passion |
| 2001 | Helmuth Rilling | Penderecki: Credo |
| 2000 | Robert Shafer | Britten: War Requiem |
| 1999 | Robert Shaw | Barber: Prayers Of Kierkegaard/Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem/Bartok: Cantata Profana |
| 1998 | Robert Shaw | Adams: Harmonium/Rachmaninoff: The Bells |
| 1997 | Neville Creed, David Hill, Andrew Litton | Walton: Belshazzar's Feast |
| 1996 | Herbert Blomstedt | Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem |
| 1995 | John Eliot Gardiner, choral director | Berlioz: Messe Solennelle |
| 1994 | Pierre Boulez | Bartók: Cantata Profana |
| 1993 | Herbert Blomstedt | Orff: Carmina Burana |
| 1992 | Georg Solti | Bach: Mass In B Minor |
| 1991 | Robert Shaw | Walton: Belshazzar's Feast/Bernstein: Chichester Psalms; Missa Brevis |
| 1990 | Robert Shaw | Britten: War Requiem |
| 1989 | Robert Shaw | Verdi: Requiem & Operatic Choruses |
| 1988 | Robert Shaw | Hindemith: When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd |
| 1987 | James Levine | Orff: Carmina Burana |
| 1986 | Robert Shaw | Berlioz: Requiem |
| 1985 | James Levine | Brahms: A German Requiem |
| 1984 | Georg Solti | Haydn: The Creation |
| 1983 | Georg Solti | Berlioz: La Damnation De Faust |
| 1982 | Neville Marriner | Haydn: The Creation |
| 1981 | Norbert Balatsch, Carlo Maria Giulini | Mozart: Requiem |
| 1980 | Georg Solti | Brahms: A German Requiem |
| 1979 | Georg Solti | Beethoven: Missa Solemnis |
| 1978 | Georg Solti, conductor; Margaret Hillis, choral director (Various Artists) | Verdi: Requiem |
| 1977 | Andre Previn, conductor; Arthur Oldham, choral director | Rachmaninoff: The Bells |
| 1976 | Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Robert Page, choral director | Orff: Carmina Burana |
| 1975 | Colin Davis, conductor | Berlioz: The Damnation Of Faust |
| 1974 | Andre Previn, conductor; Arthur Oldham, choral director | Walton: Belshazzer's Feast |
| 1973 | Georg Solti, conductor (Various Artists) | Mahler: Symphony No. 8 In E Flat (Symphony Of A Thousand) |
| 1972 | Colin Davis, conductor | Berlioz: Requiem |
| 1971 | Gregg Smith | Ives: New Music Of Charles Ives |
| 1970 | Luciano Berio, conductor; Ward Swingle, choir master | Berio: Sinfonia |
| 1969 | Gregg Smith | The Glory Of Gabrieli |
| 1968 | Eugene Ormandy, conductor; Robert Page, chorus director | Orff: Catulli Carmina |
| 1968 | Leonard Bernstein, conductor (Various Artists) | Mahler: Symphony No. 8 In E Flat Major (Symphony Of A Thousand) |
| 1967 | Gregg Smith | Ives: Music For Chorus |
| 1967 | Robert Shaw | Handel: Messiah |
| 1966 | Robert Shaw | Stravinsky: Symphony Of Psalms/Poulenc: Gloria |
| 1965 | Robert Shaw | Britten: A Ceremony Of Carols |
| 1964 | Lord Benjamin Britten, conductor; David Willcocks & Edward Chapman, choral directors (Pears, Vishnevskaya, Fischer-Dieskau) | Britten: War Requiem |
| 1963 | Otto Klemperer, conductor; Wilhelm Pitz, choir director | Bach: St. Matthew Passion |
| 1962 | Robert Shaw | Bach: B Minor Mass |
| 1961 | Thomas Beecham, conductor | Handel: Messiah |