Congratulations to the artists on our roster who were selected for the OPUS KLASSIK 2026 Shortlist! The list of nominees was created from over 680 submissions and the winners will be announced at the end of June. The OPUS KLASSIK is Germany’s most prestigious award for classical music and is presented by the Society for the Promotion of Classical Music (Gesellschaft zur F\u00f6rderung der Klassischen Musik gemeinn\u00fctzige GmbH). An independent jury of eleven experts from the music industry selects the winners in 30 categories.<\/p>\n
Nemanja Radulovic<\/strong><\/a> Avi Avital<\/strong><\/a> VOCES8<\/strong><\/a> \u2022 Chamber Music Recording of the Year \u2022 Tour of the Year Learn more and view all of the nominees.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Congratulations to the artists on our roster who were selected for the OPUS KLASSIK 2026 Shortlist! The list of nominees was created from over 680 submissions and the winners will be announced at the end of June. The OPUS KLASSIK is Germany’s most prestigious award for classical music and is presented by the Society for … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7095,3907,4967,4188,3929,7361,6667,7513,6046,4437],"class_list":["post-18393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-avi-avital","tag-award","tag-emanuel-ax","tag-karina-canellakis","tag-leonidas-kavakos","tag-nemanja-radulovic","tag-nominees","tag-opus-klassik","tag-voces8","tag-yo-yo-ma"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18393","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=18393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18395,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18393\/revisions\/18395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/18394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 Instrumentalist of the Year
\n\u2022 Solo Recording Instrument of the Year
\nProkofiev<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Live Performance of the Year Soloist
\nIstanbul Symphonic
\n\u2022 Classical Music Without Borders
\nAvi Avital, Between Worlds Song of the Birds<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Live Performance of the Year Ensemble\/Orchestra
\nTwenty! 20 Songs from 20 Years<\/em>
\n\u2022 Choral Recording of the Year
\nPaul Smith: Revolutions<\/em><\/p>\n
\nEmanuel Ax<\/a>, Leonidas Kavakos<\/a>, Yo-Yo Ma<\/a><\/strong>
\nBeethoven for Three: Symphony No. 1 \/ Op. 70, No. 1 \u2018Ghost\u2019 \/ Op. 11 \u2018Gassenhauer\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n
\nKarina Canellakis<\/strong><\/a>
\nLondon Philharmonic Orchestra \/ Karina Canellakis \/ Anne-Sophie Mutter<\/p>\n