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Best Contemporary Classical Composition

2012 • 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 2010 and Aug 30, 2011

2012 Winner is William Boggs, Keith Phares, Patricia Risley, Vale Rideout, Frank Kelley, Heather Buck, Florentine Opera Chorus & Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra with "Aldridge, Robert: Elmer Gantry"

Aldridge, Robert: Elmer Gantry

Robert Aldridge, Herschel Garfein

Nominees 2012

Winners

Year Winner Nomination
2026 Gabriela Ortiz Ortiz: Dzonot All Nominees
2025 Gabriela Ortiz Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina All Nominees
2024 Jessie Montgomery Montgomery: Rounds All Nominees
2023 Kevin Puts Puts: Contact All Nominees
2022 Caroline Shaw Shaw: Narrow Sea All Nominees
2021 Christopher Rouse Rouse: Symphony No. 5 All Nominees
2020 Jennifer Higdon Higdon: Harp Concerto All Nominees
2019 Aaron Jay Kernis Kernis: Violin Concerto All Nominees
2018 Jennifer Higdon Viola Concerto All Nominees
2017 Michael Daugherty Daugherty: Tales Of Hemingway All Nominees
2016 Stephen Paulus Paulus: Prayers & Remembrances All Nominees
2015 John Luther Adams Adams, John Luther: Become Ocean All Nominees
2014 Maria Schneider Schneider, Maria: Winter Morning Walks All Nominees
2013 Stephen Hartke Hartke, Stephen: Meanwhile - Incidental Music To Imaginary Puppet Plays All Nominees
2012 Robert Aldridge, Herschel Garfein Aldridge, Robert: Elmer Gantry All Nominees
2011 Michael Daugherty Daugherty, Michael: Deus Ex Machina All Nominees
2010 Jennifer Higdon Higdon, Jennifer: Percussion Concerto All Nominees
2009 John Corigliano Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems Of Bob Dylan All Nominees
2008 Joan Tower Made In America All Nominees
2007 Osvaldo Golijov Golijov: Ainadamar: Fountain Of Tears All Nominees
2006 William Bolcom Bolcom: Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience All Nominees
2005 Lorin Maazel Adams: On The Transmigration Of Souls All Nominees
2004 Dominick Argento Argento: Casa Guidi All Nominees
2003 John Tavener Tavener: Lamentations & Praises All Nominees
2002 Christopher Rouse Rouse: Concert De Gaudí For Guitar & Orchestra All Nominees
2001 George Crumb Crumb: Star-Child All Nominees
2000 Pierre Boulez Boulez: Répons All Nominees
1999 Krzysztof Penderecki Penderecki: Violin Concerto No. 2 "Metamorphosen" All Nominees
1998 John Adams Adams: El Dorado All Nominees
1997 John Corigliano Corigliano: String Quartet All Nominees
1996 Olivier Messiaen Messiaen: Concert A Quatre All Nominees
1995 Stephen Albert Albert: Cello Concerto All Nominees
1994 Elliott Carter Carter: Violin Concerto All Nominees
1993 Samuel Barber Barber: The Lovers All Nominees
1992 John Corigliano Corigliano: Symphony No. 1 All Nominees
1991 Leonard Bernstein Bernstein: Arias & Barcarolles All Nominees
1990 Steve Reich Reich: Different Trains All Nominees
1989 John Adams Adams: Nixon In China All Nominees
1988 Krzysztof Penderecki Penderecki: Cello Concerto No. 2 All Nominees
1987 Witold Lutoslawski Lutoslawski: Symphony No. 3 All Nominees
1986 Andrew Lloyd Webber Lloyd Webber: Requiem All Nominees
1985 Samuel Barber Barber: Antony And Cleopatra All Nominees
1966 Charles Ives Ives: Symphony No. 4 All Nominees
1965 Samuel Barber Barber: Piano Concerto All Nominees
1964 Benjamin Britten Britten: War Requiem All Nominees
1963 Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky: The Flood All Nominees
1962 Laurindo Almeida Almeida: Discantus All Nominees
1962 Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky: Movements For Piano And Orchestra All Nominees
1961 Aaron Copland Copland: Orchestral Suite From Tender Land Suite All Nominees

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