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Producer Of The Year, Classical

2025 • 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 2023 and Aug 30, 2024

2025 Winner is Elaine Martone with "Producer Of The Year, Classical"

Elaine L. Martone

Nominees 2025

Producer Of The Year, Classical

Erica Brenner
Credits

• Biber: Mystery Sonatas (Alan Choo, Jeannette Sorrell & Apollo's Fire) (A)
• Handel: Israel In Egypt (Jeannette Sorrell, Apollo's Singers & Apollo's Fire) (A)
• Mozart: Piano Sonatas, Vols. 5 & 6 (Orli Shaham) (A)
• Songs For A Friend - A Tribute To Trumpeter Ryan Anthony (Various Artists) (A)
• Sonic Alchemy (YuEun Kim, Mina Gajic & Coleman Itzkoff) (A)
Producer Of The Year, Classical

Christoph Franke
Credits

• Beethoven: The Complete Symphonies (Antonello Manacorda & Kammerakademie Potsdam) (A)
• Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1, 5, 6 & 10 (Dénes Várjon & Antje Weithaas) (A)
• Brahms, Viotti & Dvorák: Orchestral Works (Tanja Tetzlaff, Christian Tetzlaff, Paavo Järvi & Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin) (A)
• Mozart: Sinigaglia (Noah Bendix-Balgley) (A)
• Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 (Kirill Petrenko & Berliner Philharmoniker) (A)
• The Vienna Recital (Yuja Wang) (A)
Producer Of The Year, Classical

Morten Lindberg
Credits

• Mor (Karen Haugom Olsen & Nidaros Domkor) (A)
• Pax (Nina T. Karlsen, Ensemble 96 & Current Saxophone Quartet) (A)
• Sommerro: Borders (Nick Davies & Trondheim Symphony Orchestra) (A)
Producer Of The Year, Classical

Dmitriy Lipay
Credits

• Adams: Girls Of The Golden West (John Adams, Daniela Mack, Ryan McKinny, Paul Appleby, Hye Jung Lee, Elliot Madore, Julia Bullock, Davóne Tines, Los Angeles Philharmonic & Los Angeles Master Chorale) (A)
• Messiaen: Des Canyons Aux Étoiles... (Ludovic Morlot & Seattle Symphony) (A)
• Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina (Gustavo Dudamel, Gabriela Ortiz, María Dueñas, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale) (A)
Producer Of The Year, Classical

Dirk Sobotka
Credits

• American Dreams (Louis Langrée & Cincinnati Symphony) (A)
• Bruckner: Symphony No. 7; Bates: Resurrexit (Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) (A)
• Dvorák: Symphony No. 9, 'From The New World'; American Suite (Nathalie Stutzmann & Atlanta Symphony Orchestra) (A)
• Radiance Untethered - The Choral Music Of John Wykoff (Cameron F. Labarr & Missouri State University Chorale) (A)

Winners

Year	Winner	Nomination	Actions
2026	Elaine L. Martone	Producer Of The Year, Classical	All Nominees
2025	Elaine L. Martone	Producer Of The Year, Classical	All Nominees
2024	Elaine L. Martone	Producer Of The Year, Classical	All Nominees
2023	Judith Sherman	Producer Of The Year, Classical	All Nominees
2022	Judith Sherman	Producer Of The Year, Classical	All Nominees
2021	David Frost	Producer Of The Year, Classical	All Nominees
2020	Blanton Alspaugh	Producer Of The Year, Classical	All Nominees
2019	Blanton Alspaugh	Producer Of The Year, Classical	All Nominees
2018	David Frost	Producer Of The Year, Classical	All Nominees
2017	David Frost	Producer Of The Year, Classical	All Nominees
2016	Judith Sherman	Producer Of The Year, Classical	All Nominees
2015	Judith Sherman	Producer Of The Year, Classical	All Nominees
2014	David Frost	Producer Of The Year, Classical	All Nominees
2013	Blanton Alspaugh	Producer Of The Year, Classical	All Nominees
2012	Judith Sherman		All Nominees
2011	David Frost		All Nominees
2010	Steven Epstein		All Nominees
2009	David Frost		All Nominees
2008	Judith Sherman		All Nominees
2007	Elaine L. Martone		All Nominees
2006	Tim Handley		All Nominees
2005	David Frost		All Nominees
2004	Steven Epstein		All Nominees
2003	Robert Woods		All Nominees
2002	Manfred Eicher		All Nominees
2001	Steven Epstein		All Nominees
2000	Adam Abeshouse		All Nominees
1999	Steven Epstein		All Nominees
1998	Steven Epstein		All Nominees
1997	Joanna Nickrenz		All Nominees
1996	Steven Epstein		All Nominees
1995	Andrew Cornall		All Nominees
1994	Judith Sherman		All Nominees
1993	Michael Fine		All Nominees
1992	James Mallinson		All Nominees
1991	Adam Stern		All Nominees
1990	Robert Woods		All Nominees
1989	Robert Woods		All Nominees
1988	Robert Woods		All Nominees
1987	Thomas Frost		All Nominees
1986	Robert Woods		All Nominees
1985	Steven Epstein		All Nominees
1984	Marc Aubort, Joanna Nickrenz		All Nominees
1983	Robert Woods		All Nominees
1982	James Mallinson		All Nominees
1981	Robert Woods		All Nominees
1980	James Mallinson		All Nominees

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