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Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance

Grammy award category since 1959

Summary

Grammy award category since 1959

FieldValue
nameGrammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance
awarded_forQuality orchestral performances
imagesize100px
altA gold gramophone trophy with a plaque set on a table
captionGilded gramophone trophy presented to Grammy Award winners
presenterNational Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
countryUnited States
year1959
holderGustavo Dudamel (conductor); Los Angeles Philharmonic, "Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina" (2025)
websitegrammy.com

The Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance has been awarded since 1959. There have been several minor changes to the name of the award over this time:

  • From 1959 to 1964 it was awarded as Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
  • In 1965 it was Best Performance - Orchestra
  • From 1966 to 1975 it returned to 'Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
  • From 1977 to 1978 it was awarded as Best Classical Orchestral Performance
  • From 1980 to 1981 it was awarded as Best Classical Orchestral Recording
  • In 1983 it was awarded as **Best Orchestral Performance **
  • In 1984 it was awarded as Best Orchestral Recording
  • From 1985 to 1987 it returned to being called Best Classical Orchestral Recording
  • From 1988 to 1989 it was once again called Best Orchestral Recording
  • From 1990 to the present it has returned to being called Best Orchestral Performance Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.

Until 1989, the Grammy Award went to the conductor only, but since then, the Orchestra has also been given an award (although the orchestras are not always mentioned as a nominee).

Recipients

YearRecipients(s)WorkNominees (Conductors are identified with "cd")Ref.19591960196119621963196419651966196719681969197019711972197319741975197619771978197919801981198219831984198519861987198819891990199119921993199419951996199719981999200020012002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Felix Slatkin conducting the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra"Gaîté Parisienne"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1959-may-238.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1959 (May)accessdate=February 13, 2021}}
Charles Münch conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra"Debussy: Images for Orchestra"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1959-239.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1959accessdate=February 13, 2021}}
Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra"Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1961-213.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1961accessdate=February 14, 2021}}
Charles Münch conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra"Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1962-214.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1962accessdate=February 14, 2021}}
Igor Stravinsky conducting the Columbia Symphony Orchestra"Stravinsky: The Firebird Ballet"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1963-215.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1963accessdate=February 14, 2021}}
Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra"Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1964-216.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1964accessdate=February 14, 2021}}
Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra"Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C Sharp Minor; Berg: Wozzeck Excerpts"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1965-217.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1965accessdate=February 14, 2021}}
Leopold Stokowski conducting the American Symphony Orchestra"Ives: Symphony No. 4"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1966-241.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1966accessdate=February 14, 2021}}
Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra"Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A Minor"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1967-242.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1967accessdate=February 14, 2021}}
Igor Stravinsky conducting the Columbia Symphony Orchestra"Stravinsky: The Firebird and Petrouchka Suite"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1968-218.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1968accessdate=February 14, 2021}}
Pierre Boulez conducting the New Philharmonic Orchestra"Boulez Conducts Debussy (La Mer, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, Jeux)"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1969-243.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1969accessdate=February 14, 2021}}
Pierre Boulez conducting the Cleveland Orchestra"Boulez Conducts Debussy, Vol. 2, Images Pour Orchestra"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1970-219.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1970accessdate=February 15, 2021}}
Pierre Boulez conducting the Cleveland Orchestra"Stravinsky: Le Sacre Du Printemps"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1971-220.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1971accessdate=February 15, 2021}}
Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra"Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1972-221.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1972accessdate=February 16, 2021}}
Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra"Mahler: Symphony No. 7 in E Minor"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1973-222.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1973accessdate=February 16, 2021}}
Pierre Boulez conducting the New York Philharmonic"Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1974-223.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1974accessdate=February 16, 2021}}
Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra"Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1975-240.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1975accessdate=February 16, 2021}}
Pierre Boulez conducting the New York Philharmonic"Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1976-224.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1976accessdate=February 16, 2021}}
Raymond Minshull (producer), Sir Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra"Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1977-225.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1977accessdate=February 16, 2021}}
Gunther Breest (producer), Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra"Mahler: Symphony No. 9 in D Major"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1978-226.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1978accessdate=February 17, 2021}}
Michel Glotz (producer), Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic"Beethoven: Symphonies (9) (Complete)"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1979-227.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1979accessdate=February 17, 2021}}
James Mallinson (producer), Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra"Brahms: Symphonies (4) (Complete)"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1980-228.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1980accessdate=February 17, 2021}}
Raymond Minshull (producer), Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra"Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A Major"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1981-229.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1981accessdate=February 17, 2021}}
James Mallinson (producer), Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra"Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1982-230.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1982accessdate=February 17, 2021}}
Jay David Saks, Thomas Z. Shepard (producers), James Levine conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra"Mahler: Symphony No. 7 in E Minor (Song of the Night)"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1983-231.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1983accessdate=February 17, 2021}}
James Mallinson (producer), Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra"Mahler: Symphony No. 9 in D Major"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1984-232.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1984accessdate=February 17, 2021}}
Jay David Saks (producer), Leonard Slatkin conducting the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra"Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat, Op. 100"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1985-233.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1985accessdate=February 17, 2021}}
Robert Woods (producer), Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra"Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1986-234.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1985accessdate=February 17, 2021}}
Michael Haas (producer), Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra"Liszt: A Faust Symphony"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1987-235.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1986accessdate=February 18, 2021}}
Michael Haas (producer), Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra"Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor (Choral)"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1988-236.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1988accessdate=February 18, 2021}}
Robert Woods (producer), Robert Shaw & Louis Lane conducting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra"Rorem: String Symphony; Sunday Morning; Eagles"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1989-237.htmltitle=Grammy Awards 1989accessdate=February 18, 2021}}
Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic"Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=https://apnews.com/article/7214ac27d974afc9c5c0aa08cf633643title=A List of 32nd Annual Grammy Nomineesaccessdate=February 19, 2021}}
Leonard Bernstein conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra"Shostakovich: Symphonies No. 1 & 7"{{smalldiv
Daniel Barenboim conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra"Corigliano: Symphony No. 1"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/01/08/And-the-nominees-are/6605694846800/title=And the Nominees Are...accessdate=February 19, 2021}}
Leonard Bernstein conducting the Berlin Philharmonic"Mahler: Symphony No. 9"{{smalldiv
Pierre Boulez conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra"Bartók: The Wooden Prince"{{smalldiv
Pierre Boulez conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra"Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; Four Orchestral Pieces, Op. 12"{{smalldiv
Pierre Boulez conducting the Cleveland Orchestra"Debussy: La Mer"{{smalldiv
Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the San Francisco Symphony"Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (Scenes from the Ballet)"{{smalldiv
Pierre Boulez conducting the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus"Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique; Tristia"{{smalldiv
Pierre Boulez conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra"Mahler: Symphony No. 9"{{smalldiv
Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the Peninsula Boys Choir, San Francisco Girl's Chorus, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra & Chorus"Stravinsky: The Firebird, The Rite of Spring, Persésophone"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=https://www.digitalhit.com/grammy/42/nominees.shtmltitle=42nd Grammy Award Nominations (2000)accessdate=February 22, 2021}}
Simon Rattle conducting the Berliner Philharmonic"Mahler: Symphony No. 10"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=https://www.digitalhit.com/grammy/43/nominees.shtmltitle=43rd Annual Grammy Awards Nominationsaccessdate=February 22, 2021}}
Pierre Boulez conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra"Boulez Conducts Varèse (Amériques; Arcana; Deserts; Ionisation)"{{smalldiv
Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the San Francisco Symphony"Mahler: Symphony No. 6"{{smalldiv
Pierre Boulez conducting the Vienna Boys' Choir, Women's Chorus of the Vienna Singverein, Vienna Philharmonic, Various Artists"Mahler: Symphony No. 3"{{smalldiv
Lorin Maazel conducting the New York Philharmonic, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, New York Choral Artists"Adams: On the Transmigration of Souls"{{smalldiv
Mariss Jansons conducting the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks"Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13"{{smalldiv
Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the San Francisco Symphony"Mahler: Symphony No. 7"{{smalldiv
Leonard Slatkin conducting the Nashville Symphony"Tower: Made In America"{{smalldiv
Bernard Haitink conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra"Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4"{{smalldiv
James Levine conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus"Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=https://www.digitalhit.com/grammy/52/nominees.shtmltitle=52nd Grammy® Award Nominationsaccessdate=February 25, 2021}}
Giancarlo Guerrero conducting the Nashville Symphony"Daugherty: Metropolis Symphony; Deux Ex Machina"{{smalldiv{{Cite weburl=https://www.digitalhit.com/grammy/53/nominees.shtmltitle=53rd Grammy® Award Nominationsaccessdate=February 25, 2021}}
Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic"Brahms: Symphony No. 4"{{smalldiv
Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the San Francisco Symphony"Adams: Harmonielehre & Short Ride in a Fast Machine"{{smalldiv
Osmo Vänskä conducting the Minnesota Orchestra"Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4"{{smalldiv
David Robertson conducting the St. Louis Symphony"Adams: City Noir"{{smalldiv
Andris Nelsons conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra"Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow - Symphony No. 10"{{smalldiv
Andris Nelsons conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra"Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow - Symphony Nos. 5, 8 & 9"{{smalldiv
Manfred Honeck conducting the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra"Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio"{{smalldiv
Andris Nelsons conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra"Shostakovich: Symphonies No. 4 & 11"{{smalldiv
Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic"Norman: Sustain"{{smalldiv
Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic"Ives: Complete Symphonies"{{smalldiv
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra"Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3"{{smalldiv
Michael Repper conducting the New York Youth Symphony"Works by Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery & Valerie Coleman"
Gustavo Dudamel (conductor); Los Angeles PhilharmonicAdès: Dante
Gustavo Dudamel (conductor); Los Angeles PhilharmonicOrtiz: Revolución Diamantina
Winners TBA on 1 February 2026

Multiple wins and nominations

The following individuals received two or more Best Orchestral Performance awards:

WinsConductorNominations
12Pierre Boulez25
9Georg Solti18
5Michael Tilson Thomas14
Gustavo Dudamel6
3Leonard Bernstein20
Carlo Maria Giulini5
Erich Leinsdorf5
Andris Nelsons3
2James Levine10
Charles Münch3
Robert Shaw3
Leonard Slatkin14
Igor Stravinsky2

The following individuals received four or more Best Orchestral Performance nominations:

NominationsConductor
25Pierre Boulez
20Leonard Bernstein
18Georg Solti
14Leonard Slatkin
Michael Tilson Thomas
10James Levine
9Herbert von Karajan
José Serebrier
8André Previn
7Simon Rattle
6Morton Gould
Manfred Honeck
Fritz Reiner
George Szell
5
Gustavo Dudamel
Carlo Maria Giulini
Erich Leinsdorf
Osmo Vänskä
Bruno Walter
4Claudio Abbado
Valery Gergiev
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Eugene Ormandy
Esa-Pekka Salonen

References

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