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Best Instrumental Composition

2006 • 48th Annual GRAMMY Awards

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 2004 and Aug 30, 2005

2006 Winner is Billy Childs Ensemble with "Into The Light"

Into The Light

Billy Childs

Nominees 2006

Winners

Year Winner Nomination
2026 Remy Le Boeuf First Snow All Nominees
2025 Pascal Le Boeuf Strands All Nominees
2024 John Williams Helena's Theme All Nominees
2023 Geoffrey Keezer Refuge All Nominees
2022 Lyle Mays Eberhard All Nominees
2021 Maria Schneider Sputnik All Nominees
2020 John Williams Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge Symphonic Suite All Nominees
2019 Terence Blanchard Blut Und Boden (Blood And Soil) All Nominees
2018 Arturo O'Farrill Three Revolutions All Nominees
2017 Ted Nash Spoken At Midnight All Nominees
2016 Arturo O'Farrill The Afro Latin Jazz Suite All Nominees
2015 John Williams The Book Thief All Nominees
2014 Clare Fischer Pensamientos For Solo Alto Saxophone And Chamber Orchestra All Nominees
2013 Chick Corea Mozart Goes Dancing All Nominees
2012 Béla Fleck, Howard Levy Life In Eleven All Nominees
2011 Billy Childs The Path Among The Trees All Nominees
2010 Michael Giacchino Married Life All Nominees
2009 John Williams The Adventures Of Mutt All Nominees
2008 Maria Schneider Cerulean Skies All Nominees
2007 John Williams A Prayer For Peace All Nominees
2006 Billy Childs Into The Light All Nominees
2005 Paquito D'Rivera Merengue All Nominees
2004 Wayne Shorter Sacajawea All Nominees
2003 Thomas Newman Six Feet Under Title Theme All Nominees
2002 Alan Silvestri Cast Away - End Credits All Nominees
2001 John Williams Theme From Angela's Ashes All Nominees
2000 Don Sebesky Joyful Noise Suite All Nominees
1999 Béla Fleck, Roy Wooten, Victor Wooten Almost 12 All Nominees
1998 Wayne Shorter Aung San Suu Kyi All Nominees
1997 Herbie Hancock, Jean Hancock Manhattan (Island Of Lights And Love) All Nominees
1996 Bill Holman A View From The Side All Nominees
1995 Michael Brecker African Skies All Nominees
1994 Kenny G Forever In Love All Nominees
1993 Benny Carter Harlem Renaissance Suite All Nominees
1992 Elton John Basque All Nominees
1991 Pat Metheny Change Of Heart All Nominees
1990 Danny Elfman The Batman Theme All Nominees
1989 Mike Post The Theme From LA Law All Nominees
1988 Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, Billy Higgins, Wayne Shorter Call Sheet Blues All Nominees
1987 John Barry Out Of Africa All Nominees
1986 Jan Hammer Miami Vice Theme All Nominees
1985 John Williams Olympic Fanfare & Theme All Nominees
1985 Randy Newman The Natural All Nominees
1984 Giorgio Moroder Love Theme From Flashdance All Nominees
1983 John Williams Flying - Theme From E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial All Nominees
1982 Mike Post The Theme From Hill Street Blues All Nominees
1981 John Williams The Empire Strikes Back All Nominees
1980 John Williams Superman Main Title Theme All Nominees
1979 John Williams Theme From Close Encounters Of The Third Kind All Nominees
1978 John Williams Star Wars - Main Title All Nominees
1977 Chuck Mangione Bellavia All Nominees
1976 Michel Legrand Images All Nominees
1975 Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells - Theme From The Exorcist All Nominees
1974 Gato Barbieri Last Tango In Paris All Nominees
1973 Michel Legrand Brian's Song All Nominees
1972 Michel Legrand Theme From Summer Of '42 All Nominees
1971 Alfred Newman Airport Love Theme All Nominees
1970 John Barry Midnight Cowboy All Nominees
1969 Mason D. Williams Classical Gas All Nominees
1968 Lalo Schifrin Mission: Impossible All Nominees
1967 Neal Hefti Batman Theme All Nominees
1965 Henry Mancini The Pink Panther Theme All Nominees
1964 Norman Newell, Nino Oliviero, Riz Ortolani More - Theme From Mondo Cane All Nominees
1963 Ric Marlow, Bobby Scott A Taste Of Honey All Nominees
1962 Galt MacDermott African Waltz All Nominees
1960 Duke Ellington Anatomy Of A Murder All Nominees
1959 Nelson Riddle Cross Country Suite All Nominees

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