Yuja Wang, Yo-Yo Ma, Béla Fleck, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Alisa Weilerstein & Reginald Mobley
2026 GRAMMY Nominees
The 2026 GRAMMY nominations are in! Congratulations to Yuja Wang, Yo-Yo Ma, Béla Fleck, Los Angeles Master Chorale, and Alisa Weilerstein.
And a special shout out goes to Reginald Mobley, who appears on Best Contemporary Classical Composition nomination Okpebholo: Songs In Flight (Shawn E. Okpebholo, composer Will Liverman, Paul Sánchez & Various Artists)
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album
BEATrio
Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda, Antonio Sánchez
Best Choral Performance
Childs: In The Arms Of The Beloved
Grant Gershon, conductor (Billy Childs, Dan Chmielinski, Christian Euman, Larry Koonse, Lyris Quartet, Anne Akiko Meyers, Carol Robbins & Luciana Souza; Los Angeles Master Chorale)
Ortiz: Yanga
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor; Grant Gershon, chorus master (Los Angeles Philharmonic; Los Angeles Master Chorale)
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
Slavic Sessions
Yuja Wang; Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
Best Classical Instrumental Solo
Shostakovich: The Cello Concertos
Yo-Yo Ma; Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
Shostakovich: The Piano Concertos; Solo Works
Yuja Wang; Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
Ortiz: Dzonot
Gabriela Ortiz, composer (Alisa Weilerstein, Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic)