Best Immersive Audio Album

The Grammy Award for Best Immersive Audio Album recognizes excellence in multichannel immersive audio recordings. Eligible recordings must be commercially released on a consumer format providing an original immersive mix of four or more channels.

51st Annual Grammy Awards • 2009

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 2007 and Aug 30, 2008

Paavo Järvi & Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra won the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Immersive Audio Album with "Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition; Night On Bald Mountain; Prelude To Khovanshchina"

Winners & Nominees 2009

Winner
Nominees

  • Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition; Night On Bald Mountain; Prelude To Khovanshchina

    Michael J. Bishop, Robert Woods

  • Divertimenti

    Hans Peter L'Orange, Morten Lindberg

  • Rheinberger: Sacred Choral Works

    John Newton, Jonathan Cooper, Mark Donahue, Blanton Alspaugh

  • Ringo Starr

    Ringo 5.1 The Surround Sound Collection

    Bruce Sugar, Chris Bellman, Bill Crowley, Ringo Starr

  • Sensurround + B-Sides

    Tohru Takayama, Keigo Oyamada

Previous Winners

Year Winner Work
2026 Justin Gray, Michael Romanowski, Drew Jurecka, Morten Lindberg Immersed All Nominees
2025 Hans-Martin Buff, Peter Gabriel i/o (In-Side Mix) All Nominees
2024 George Massenburg, Eric Schilling, Michael Romanowski, Alicia Keys, Ann Mincieli The Diary Of Alicia Keys All Nominees
2023 Eric Schilling, Stewart Copeland, Ricky Kej, Herbert Waltl Divine Tides All Nominees
2022 George Massenburg, Eric Schilling, Michael Romanowski, Ann Mincieli Alicia All Nominees
2021 Leslie Ann Jones, Michael Romanowski, Dan Merceruio Soundtrack Of The American Soldier All Nominees
2020 Morten Lindberg LUX All Nominees
2019 Alan Parsons, Dave Donnelly, P.J. Olsson Eye In The Sky - 35th Anniversary Edition All Nominees
2018 Jane Ira Bloom Early Americans All Nominees
2017 Alexander Lipay, Dmitriy Lipay Dutilleux: Sur Le Même Accord; Les Citations; Mystère De L'instant & Timbres, Espace, Mouvement All Nominees
2016 James Guthrie, Joel Plante Amused To Death All Nominees
2015 Elliot Scheiner, Bob Ludwig, Beyoncé Knowles Beyoncé All Nominees
2014 Al Schmitt, Tommy LiPuma Live Kisses All Nominees
2013 Jim Anderson, Darcy Proper, Michael Friedman Modern Cool All Nominees
2012 Elliot Scheiner, Bob Ludwig, Bill Levenson Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs (Super Deluxe Edition) All Nominees
2011 Keith O. Johnson, David Frost Britten's Orchestra All Nominees
2010 Michael J. Bishop, Elaine L. Martone Transmigration All Nominees
2009 Michael J. Bishop, Robert Woods Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition; Night On Bald Mountain; Prelude To Khovanshchina All Nominees
2008 Paul Hicks, Tim Young, George Martin, Giles Martin Love All Nominees
2007 Elliot Scheiner, Darcy Proper, Donald Fagen Morph The Cat All Nominees
2006 Chuck Ainlay, Bob Ludwig, Mark Knopfler Brothers In Arms - 20th Anniversary Edition All Nominees
2005 Al Schmitt, Robert Hadley, Doug Sax, John R. Burk, Phil Ramone, Herbert Waltl Genius Loves Company All Nominees
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