Juno_Award_for_Classical_Composition_of_the_Year Knowpia

The Juno Award for "Classical Composition of the Year" has been awarded since 1987, as recognition each year for the best classical music composition in Canada.^[1]

Winners edit

Best Classical Composition (1987–2002) edit

Year	Winner	Work	Nominees	Ref.
1987	Malcolm Forsyth	Atayoskewin	Alexina Louie, "Cadenzas" Oskar Morawetz, "Overture to a Fairy Tale" André Prévost, "Scherzo for String Orchestra"	^[2]
1987	Donald Steven	Pages of Solitary Delights		^[2]
1989	Alexina Louie	Songs of Paradise	Brian Cherney, River of Fire Jacques Hétu, Symphonie No 3 R. Murray Schafer, Concerto for Harpsichord and Eight Wind Instruments Claude Vivier, Siddartha	^[3]
1990	Oskar Morawetz	Concerto for Harp and Chamber Orchestra	Pat Carrabré, Sonata No. 1 Jean Coulthard, Introduction and Three Folk Songs Gary Kulesha, Third Chamber Concerto Sid Robinovitch, The Sons of Jacob
1991	R. Murray Schafer	String Quartet No.5 – 'Rosalind'	Glenn Buhr, Aviravirmayedhi Michael Colgrass, Chaconne Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté, Cappriccio-Concertante R. Murray Schafer, La Cri de Merlin	^[4]
1992	Michael Conway Baker	Concerto for Piano & Chamber Orchestra	Patrick Cardy, Virelai Oskar Morawetz, Memorial to Martin Luther King R. Murray Schafer, Dream Rainbow Dream Thunder John Thrower, Improvisation on a Blue Theme
1993	R. Murray Schafer	Concerto for Flute and Orchestra	Jean Coulthard, "Music to St Cecilia for Organ and Strings" R. Murray Schafer, "The Darkly Splendid Earth: The Lonely Traveller" R. Murray Schafer, "Poulenc, Thesus" Claude Vivier, "Kopernikus"
1994	Chan Ka Nin	Among Friends	Milton Barnes, "Divertimento for Harp and Strings" Malcolm Forsyth, "Piano Concerto" Jean Piché, "Sleight of Hand" Peter Tiefenbach, "Three Poems"
1995	Malcolm Forsyth	Sketches from Natal	Jean Coulthard, "Sonata Rhapsody for Viola & Piano" Chris Harman, "Iridescence" Alexina Louie, "From the Eastern Gate" Healey Willan, "Missa Brevis No. 11 Sancti Johannis Baptistae"
1996	Andrew P. MacDonald	Concerto for Violin and Orchestra	Glenn Buhr, "Piano Concerto" Harry Freedman, "Touchings" Alexina Louie, "Music for Heaven and Earth" Chan Ka Nin, "I Think That I Shall Never See..."	^[5]
1997	Harry Somers	Picasso Suite (1964)	Chan Ka Nin, "The Charmer" Malcolm Forsyth, "Quintette for Winds" Harry Somers, "Lyric for Orchestra (1960)" Claude Vivier, "Lonely Child"
1998	Malcolm Forsyth	Electra Rising	Alexina Louie, "Winter Music" Colin McPhee, "Symphony No. 2" R. Murray Schafer, "Adieu, Robert Schumann" R. Murray Schafer, "Gitanjali"
1999	Colin McPhee	Concerto for Wind Orchestra	Linda Bouchard, "Songs for an Acrobat" Malcolm Forsyth, "Tre Vie" Chris Harman, "Sonata for Viola and Piano" John Weinzweig, "Wine of Peace: Two Songs for Soprano and Orchestra"
2000	Alexina Louie	Shattered Night, Shivering Stars	Glenn Buhr, String Quartet No. 1 Glenn Buhr, Winter Poems Gary Kulesha, The Book of Mirrors Alexina Louie, Arc	^[6]
2001	Oskar Morawetz	From the Diary of Anne Frank	Paul M. Douglas, La Cévenole Marjan Mozetich, Affairs of the Heart R. Murray Schafer, Once on a Windy Night Harry Somers, The Third Piano Concerto
2002	Chan Ka Nin	Par-çi, par-la	Peter Paul Koprowski, "Concerto for Viola and Orchestra" Sid Robinovitch, "Suite for Klezmer Band and Orchestra" Harry Somers, "Serinette" Owen Underhill, "Love Songs"

Classical Composition of the Year (2003 – Present) edit

Year	Winner	Work	Nominees	Ref.
2003	Bramwell Tovey	Requiem for a Charred Skull	John Estacio, "Test Run" Christos Hatzis, "Orbiting Garden" Alexina Louie, "Music for a Thousand Autumns" Heather Schmidt, "Concerto for Cello"
2004	R. Murray Schafer	String Quartet No. 8	Norma Beecroft, "Amplified String Quartet with Tape" Christos Hatzis, "Everlasting Light" Jacques Hétu, "Piano Concerto No. 2" R. Murray Schafer, "Credo"
2005	István Anhalt	The Tents of Abraham	John Estacio, "A Farmer's Symphony" José Evangelista, "Neuvas monodias espanolas" Jeffrey Ryan, "Pangaea" Robert Turner, "Third Symphony"
2006	Christos Hatzis	String Quartet No. 1 (The Awakening)	Brian Cherney, "Illuminations" Chan Ka Nin, "Our Finest Hour" Peter Togni, "Illuminations" Robert Turner, "Symphony for Strings"
2007	Denis Gougeon	Clere Vénus	Stephen Chatman, "Varley Suite for Solo Violin" Neil Currie, "Tumbling Strain" Harry Somers, "A Midwinter Night's Dream", Harry Somers, "Of Memory and Desire"
2008	Christos Hatzis	Constantinople (Hatzis)	Brian Current, "This Isn’t Silence" Oskar Morawetz, "A Child's Cry from Izieu" Jeffrey Ryan, "Quantum Mechanics" R. Murray Schafer, "Letters from Mignon"
2009	John Burge	Flanders Fields Reflections	T. Patrick Carrabré, "From the Dark Reaches" Timothy Corlis, "Notes Towards a Poem That Can Never Be Written" Sid Robinovitch, "Song of Songs" Bramwell Tovey, "Manhattan Music"
2010	Marjan Mozetich	Lament in the Trampled Garden	Stephen Chatman, "Earth Songs" Leonard Enns, "Nocturne" Marjan Mozetich, "Angels in Flight" Rob Teehan, "Dreams of Flying"
2011	R. Murray Schafer	Duo for Violin and Piano	Larysa Kuzmenko, "Piano Concerto, 3" Jocelyn Morlock, "Exaudi" Clark Ross, "Last Dance" Peter Togni, "Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae"
2012	Derek Charke	Sepia Fragments	Jacques Hétu, "String Quartet No. 2" Jeffrey Ryan, "Fugitive Colours" Heather Schmidt, "Piano Concerto No. 2" Ann Southam, "Glass Houses #5"
2013	Vivian Fung	Violin Concerto	Denis Gougeon, "Mutation" Alexina Louie, "Echoes of Time" R. Murray Schafer, "Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello" Howard Shore, The Lord of the Rings Symphony: Six Movements for Orchestra & Chorus
2014	Allan Gordon Bell	Field Notes	Tim Brady, "Atacama: Symphonie No. 3" Stephen Chatman, "Magnificat" James O'Callaghan, "Isomorphia for Orchestra and Electronics" R. Murray Schafer, "Quatuors à cordes No. 12"
2015	Brian Current	Airline Icarus	John Estacio, "Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra" Gordon Fitzell, "Magister Ludi" Jacques Hétu, "Sextet, OP. 71" Alice Ping Yee Ho, "Glistening Pianos"
2016	Dinuk Wijeratne	Two Pop Songs on Antique Poems	John Burge, "Piano Quartet" Nicole Lizée, "Bookburners" Michael Oesterle, "Centennials" Jordan Pal, "The Afar"
2017	Jordan Nobles	Immersion	Kati Agócs, "The Debrecen Passion" Christos Hatzis, "Going Home Star – Truth and Reconciliation" Ana Sokolović, "And I need a room to receive five thousand people with raised glasses... or... what a glorious day, the birds are singing "halleluia"" Andrew Staniland, "Dark Star Requiem"
2018	Jocelyn Morlock	My Name is Amanda Todd	Alice Ping Yee Ho, "Cœur à Cœur" Vincent Ho, "The Shaman" James Rolfe, "Breathe" Andrew Staniland, "Phi, Caelestis"	^[7]
2019	Ana Sokolović	Golden Slumbers Kiss Your Eyes	Vincent Ho, "Arctic Symphony" Nicole Lizée, "Katana of Choice" Cassandra Miller, "About Bach" Bekah Simms, "Granitic"
2020	Ana Sokolović	Evta	Rose Bolton, "The Coming of Sobs" Vincent Ho, "Kickin' It 2.0" Jared Miller, "Under Sea, Above Sky" Bekah Simms, "Everything Is...Distorted"
2021	Samy Moussa	Violin Concerto 'Adrano'	Zosha DiCarti, "Tachitipo" Anna Höstman, "Harbour" Alexina Louie, "Take the Dog Sled" Ana Sokolović, "Commedia dell'arte"	^[8]
2022	Keiko Devaux	Arras	Kati Agócs, "Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra" Dorothy Chang, "Flight" Jaap Nico Hamburger, "Chamber Symphony No. 2: Children’s War Diaries" Saman Shahi, "Breathing in the Shadows"	^[9]
2023	Bekah Simms	"Bestiary I & II"	Anthony Tan, "An Overall Augmented Sense of Well-Being" Keyan Emami, "The Black Fish" Nicole Lizée, "Prayers for Ruins" Vincent Ho, "Supervillain Études"	^[10]
2024	Nicole Lizée	"Don't Throw Your Head in Your Hands"	Amy Brandon, "Simulacra" Iman Habibi, "Shāhīn-nāmeh, for Voice and Orchestra" Emilie Cecilia LeBel, "…and the Higher Leaves of the Trees Seemed to Shimmer in the Last of the Sunlight’s Lingering Touch of Them…" Dinuk Wijeratne, "Portrait of an Imaginary Sibling"	^[11]

References edit

^ The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. "Juno Award winners list search" (Requires a search by year). The JUNOS Website. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
^ "Juno Awards: the complete list of nominees". Vancouver Sun, September 15, 1987.
^ "Juno candidates announced". Vancouver Sun, February 2, 1989.
^ Mark Bastien, "Rap music makes presence felt in '91 Juno Awards nominations". Montreal Gazette, February 7, 1991.
^ "Complete list of 1996 Juno Award nominees". Montreal Gazette, February 3, 1996.
^ "Juno nominees". Toronto Star, February 3, 2000.
^ Smith, Charlie (March 24, 2018). "Diana Krall, Michael Bublé, Anciients, Jocelyn Morlock, and Ivan Decker put B.C. in Juno Awards winners circle". The Georgia Straight.
^ Holly Gordon and Andrea Warner, "Here are the 2021 Juno Award winners". CBC Music, June 4, 2021.
^ Jackson Weaver, "Charlotte Cardin, The Weeknd, Justin Bieber lead 2022 Juno Award nominees". CBC News, March 1, 2022.
^ Jenna Benchetrit and Arti Patel, "The Weeknd picks up 4 wins on Junos 2023 opening night". CBC News, March 11, 2023.
^ "Junos 2024: full list of winners". CBC Music, March 23, 2024.

[1] The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. "Juno Award winners list search" (Requires a search by year). The JUNOS Website. Retrieved March 28, 2018.

[2] "Juno Awards: the complete list of nominees". Vancouver Sun, September 15, 1987.

[3] "Juno candidates announced". Vancouver Sun, February 2, 1989.

[4] Mark Bastien, "Rap music makes presence felt in '91 Juno Awards nominations". Montreal Gazette, February 7, 1991.

[5] "Complete list of 1996 Juno Award nominees". Montreal Gazette, February 3, 1996.

[6] "Juno nominees". Toronto Star, February 3, 2000.

[Smith_Straight_2018-7] Smith, Charlie (March 24, 2018). "Diana Krall, Michael Bublé, Anciients, Jocelyn Morlock, and Ivan Decker put B.C. in Juno Awards winners circle". The Georgia Straight.

[8] Holly Gordon and Andrea Warner, "Here are the 2021 Juno Award winners". CBC Music, June 4, 2021.

[9] Jackson Weaver, "Charlotte Cardin, The Weeknd, Justin Bieber lead 2022 Juno Award nominees". CBC News, March 1, 2022.

[10] Jenna Benchetrit and Arti Patel, "The Weeknd picks up 4 wins on Junos 2023 opening night". CBC News, March 11, 2023.

[11] "Junos 2024: full list of winners". CBC Music, March 23, 2024.

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Summary

Winners edit

Best Classical Composition (1987–2002) edit

Classical Composition of the Year (2003 – Present) edit

References edit