Yesterday the 2024 Juno winners were announced in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Here are the winners in the Classical and Jazz Catagories:

Classical album of the year (solo artist)

Nominees:

  • Infinite Voyage, Barbara Hannigan 
  • Nielsen: Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 4, James Ehnes 
  • Fauré: Nocturnes & Barcarolles, Marc-André Hamelin 
  • De Hartmann: Cello Concerto, Matt Haimovitz 
  • Mouvance, Suzie LeBlanc 

Winner:

SFGJ

Classical album of the year (large ensemble)

Nominees:

  • Bekah Simms: Bestiaries, Cryptid Ensemble, Ensemble Contemporain de Montreal 
  • Maxime Goulet: Symphonie de la tempête de verglas, Orchestre classique de Montréal, conducted by Jacques Lacombe 
  • Sibelius 3 & 4, Orchestre Métropolitain, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin 
  • Mahler: Symphony No. 5, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, conducted by Rafael Payare 
  • Rachmaninoff: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3; Isle of the Dead, the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Winner:

YFDJ

Classical album of the year (small ensemble)

Nominees:

  • Mythes, Andrew Armstrong and James Ehnes 
  • Portrait: Alex Baranowski, Angèle Dubeau and La Pietà 
  • Portrait, Cheng² Duo 
  • Il Ponte di Leonardo, Constantinople 
  • Basta parlare!, Les Barocudas 

Winner:

RTYHJ

 

Classical composition of the year

Nominees:

  • Simulacra, Amy Brandon 
  • Portrait of an Imaginary Sibling, Dinuk Wijeratne ...and the Higher Leaves of the Trees Seemed to Shimmer in the Last of the Sunlight's Lingering Touch of Them…, Emilie Cecilia LeBel
  • Shāhīn-nāmeh, for Voice and Orchestra, Iman Habibi 
  • Don't Throw Your Head in Your Hands, Nicole Lizée 

Winner:

GHDK

Vocal jazz album of the year

Nominees:

  • Songwriter, Alex Bird & Ewen Farncombe 
  • You're Alike, You Two, Caity Gyorgy and Mark Limacher 
  • Little Bit a' Love, Denielle Bassels 
  • Our Roots Run Deep, Dominique Fils-Aimé 
  • Your Requests, Laila Biali 

Winner:

GHJK

Jazz album of the year (solo)

Nominees:

  • Day Moon, Christine Jensen 
  • Walls Made of Glass, Gentiane MG 
  • Sonic Bouquet, Jocelyn Gould 
  • Twelve, Noam Lemish 
  • The South Detroit Connection, Russ Macklem 

Winner:

FHJLF

Jazz album of the year (group)

Nominees:

  • Migrations, Allison Au with the Migrations Ensemble
  • Septology-The Black Forest Session, Canadian Jazz Collective
  • Cry Me a River, Hilario Duran and His Latin Jazz Big Band
  • Recent History, Mike Murley & Mark Eisenman Quartet
  • Convergence, Nick Maclean Quartet feat. Brownman Ali 

Winner:

FG