Best Choral Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance recognizes excellence in recordings of classical choral performance. Eligible ensembles are comprised of 16 or more vocalists, whether unaccompanied or accompanied, singing in unison or multiple parts.

13th Annual Grammy Awards • 1971

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 1969 and Aug 30, 1970

Gregg Smith, conductor won the 1971 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance with "Ives: New Music Of Charles Ives"

Winners & Nominees 1971

Winner
Nominees

  • Ives: New Music Of Charles Ives

    Gregg Smith

  • (Stravinsky:) The New Stravinsky (Album)

    Robert Craft, conductor; Gregg Smith, choral dircetor

  • Haydn: The Creation (Album)

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

  • Mahler: Das Klagende Lied (Album)

    Pierre Boulez, conductor; Arthur Oldham, choral director

  • Orff: Carmina Burana (Album)

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor; Lorna Cooke De Varon, Katherine Edmonds Pusztai, choral directors

  • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 (Album)

    Eugene Ormandy, conductor; Robert Page, choral director

  • Vaughan Williams: Five Tudor Portraits (Album)

    David Willcocks, conductor

Previous Winners

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