2024 Nominees Announced at Canada's JUNO Awards

James Ehnes, Barbara Hannigan, Marc-André Hamelin, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin are among the musicians nominated in the classical music categories

Canada's 53rd Annual JUNO Awards are set to take place on March 23, 2024, with a broadcast to follow on March 24. Ahead of the ceremony, the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) has announced the list of nominees for each award.

There are four categories for classical music, with five artists, albums, or composers nominated in each category. You can read the full list of nominees below.

CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR (SOLO ARTIST)

• Infinite Voyage  — Barbara Hannigan
• Nielsen: Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 4 — James Ehnes
• Fauré: Nocturnes & Barcarolles — Marc-André Hamelin
• De Hartmann: Cello Concerto — Matt Haimovitz
• mouvance — Suzie LeBlanc

CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR (LARGE ENSEMBLE)

• Bekah Simms: Bestiaries — Cryptid Ensemble conducted by Brian Current
• Maxime Goulet: Symphonie de la tempête de verglas — Orchestre classique de Montréal, conducted by Jacques Lacombe
• Sibelius 3 & 4 — Orchestre Métropolitain, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin
• Mahler: Symphony No. 5 — Orchestre Symphonique De Montreal, conducted by Rafael Payare
• Rachmaninoff: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3; Isle of the Dead — The Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin

CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR (SMALL ENSEMBLE)

• Mythes — Andrew Armstrong & James Ehnes
• Portrait: Alex Baranowski — Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà Analekta
• Portrait — Cheng² Duo
• Il Ponte di Leonardo — Constantinople Glossa
• Basta parlare! — Les Barocudas

CLASSICAL COMPOSITION OF THE YEAR

• Simulacra — Amy Brandon Independent
• Portrait of an Imaginary Sibling — Dinuk Wijeratne
• …and the Higher Leaves of the Trees Seemed to Shimmer in the Last of the Sunlight’s Lingering Touch of Them… — Emilie Cecilia LeBel
• Shāhīn-nāmeh, for Voice and Orchestra — Iman Habibi
• Don’t Throw Your Head in Your Hands — Nicole Lizée