{"id":17621,"date":"2026-02-02T10:12:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/?p=17621"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:20:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:20:28","slug":"2026-grammy-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/2026-grammy-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 GRAMMY Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to the 2026 GRAMMY winners\u00a0Yo-Yo Ma<\/a>, Los Angeles Master Chorale<\/a>, Yuja Wang<\/a>, and Alisa Weilerstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Best Choral Performance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ortiz: Yanga
\nGustavo Dudamel, conductor; Grant Gershon, chorus master (Los Angeles Philharmonic; Los Angeles Master Chorale<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

Best Classical Instrumental Solo<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shostakovich: The Cello Concertos
\nYo-Yo Ma<\/strong>; Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)<\/p>\n

Best Contemporary Classical Composition<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ortiz: Dzonot
\nGabriela Ortiz, composer (Alisa Weilerstein<\/strong>, Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic)<\/p>\n

Best Orchestral Performance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Messiaen: Turangal\u00eela-Symphonie
\nAndris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra) (Featuring Yuja Wang)<\/p>\n

Yanga<\/em><\/a> marks the Los Angeles Philharmonic\u2019s second album with composer Gabriela Ortiz, following her triple-GRAMMY-winning Revoluci\u00f3n diamantina<\/em> (2024).<\/p>\n

The title track for chorus, percussion ensemble, and orchestra is based on the life of Mexican freedom fighter Gaspar Yanga. The album also features Ortiz\u2019s cello concerto Dzonot<\/em>, inspired by the cenotes of the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula. The work was commissioned by the LA Phil and written for cellist Alisa Weilerstein, who gave the world premiere at Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2024 to wide acclaim.<\/p>\n

\u201c[On Dzonot], Weilerstein realizes all the prismatic excitement of a top-shelf Ortiz work; the cellist produces a singing tone in one movement, crisp percussive bounce in another, then more roughly hewed sounds for frenetic climaxes.\u201d
\nThe New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n

The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s recording of Shostakovich\u2019s two cello concertos coincides with the 50th anniversary of the composer\u2019s death in 1975 and is part of an upcoming anthology bringing together the BSO\u2019s decade-long, GRAMMY Award-winning Shostakovich project. Yo-Yo Ma gives inspired performances of the two cello concertos. The famously demanding First and the introspective Second, which was the composer\u2019s 60th-birthday present to himself. Yo-Yo Ma says about the work<\/a>: \u201cThis piece is as relevant today as it was then. I think Shostakovich\u2019s artistic truth was to represent the voice of the voiceless.\u201d<\/p>\n

Captured at Boston\u2019s Symphony Hall in April 2024, Messiaen\u2019s monumental Turangal\u00eela-Symphonie<\/em><\/a> was one of the centerpieces of the Boston Symphony Orchestra\u2019s \u201cMusic of the Senses\u201d Festival, aimed at expanding the audience experience through music that plays with color, light, sound, and time. The BSO and its Music Director Andris Nelsons were joined on stage by pianist Yuja Wang and by C\u00e9cile Lartigau, one of today\u2019s rare ondes Martenot players.<\/p>\n

View all of the winners.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to the 2026 GRAMMY winners\u00a0Yo-Yo Ma, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Yuja Wang, and Alisa Weilerstein. Best Choral Performance Ortiz: Yanga Gustavo Dudamel, conductor; Grant Gershon, chorus master (Los Angeles Philharmonic; Los Angeles Master Chorale) Best Classical Instrumental Solo Shostakovich: The Cello Concertos Yo-Yo Ma; Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra) Best Contemporary Classical Composition … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3688,4246,7305,6666,7431,7009,4437],"class_list":["post-17621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alisa-weilerstein","tag-grammy","tag-grammy-winners","tag-grammys","tag-los-angeles-master-chorale","tag-winners","tag-yo-yo-ma"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17621"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17628,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17621\/revisions\/17628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/17627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}