Every Grammys Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance winner

26 ceremonies, 2000–2025. 22 different winners. The longest run was Jeff von der Schmidt, 2 years straight (2004–2005).

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance was previously known as Best Small Ensemble Performance.

It absorbed Best Chamber Music Performance in 2012, having run alongside it since 1997, and took its present double-barrelled name in 2013.

It took over from Best Chamber Music Performance.

Attacca Quartet ×2Eighth Blackbird ×2Jeff von der Schmidt ×2Joseph Jennings ×2

Each band is one winner’s reign. Wider means a longer run. Colored by label; hover for details.

Joseph Jennings'00

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra'01

Kremerata Baltica'02

Joseph Jennings'03

Jeff von der Schmidt'04–'05×2

Pierre Boulez'06

Peter Rutenberg'07

Yuri Bashmet'08

Charles Bruffy'09

Paul Hillier'10

Jordi Savall'11

Steven Mackey'12

Eighth Blackbird'13

Brad Wells & Roomful of Teeth'14

Hilary Hahn & Cory Smythe'15

Eighth Blackbird'16

Third Coast Percussion'17

Patricia Kopatchinskaja & the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra'18

Laurie Anderson & the Kronos Quartet'19

Attacca Quartet'20

Pacifica Quartet'21

Yo-Yo Ma & Emanuel Ax'22

Attacca Quartet'23

Roomful of Teeth'24

Caroline Shaw & So Percussion'25

Who kept losing

Counting nominations in this category only, 2000–2025.

Most nominated, never won

Peter Phillips3 noms
Stile Antico3 noms
Harry Christophers2 noms
JACK Quartet2 noms
New York Polyphony2 noms
PUBLIQuartet2 noms

Most losses

Jordi Savall3L · 1W
Peter Phillips3L · 0W
Stile Antico3L · 0W
Third Coast Percussion3L · 1W
Harry Christophers2L · 0W
JACK Quartet2L · 0W

The full list

Year	Winner	Label
2025	Caroline Shaw & So Percussion (Rectangles and Circumstance) beat 4 others JACK Quartet (J.L. Adams: Waves & Particles) Yo-Yo Ma, Leonidas Kavakos & Emanuel Ax (Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 4 and Op. 97, 'Archduke') Beth Willer, Christopher Cerrone & Lorelei Ensemble (Cerrone: Beaufort Scales) Miró Quartet (Home)	Unrecorded
2024	Roomful of Teeth (Rough Magic) beat 4 others Anthony McGill & The Pacifica Quartet (American Stories) Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax & Leonidas Kavakos (Beethoven For Three: Symphony No. 6 "Pastorale" and Op 1. No. 3) Third Coast Percussion (Between Breaths) Catalyst Quartet (Uncovered, Vol. 3: Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, William Grant Still & George Walker)	Unrecorded
2023	Attacca Quartet (Shaw: Evergreen) beat 3 others Neave Trio (Musical Remembrances) Third Coast Percussion (Perspectives) PUBLIQuartet (What is American)	Unrecorded
2022	Yo-Yo Ma & Emanuel Ax (Beethoven: Cello Sonatas - Hope Amid Tears) beat 4 others JACK Quartet (John Luther Adams: Lines Made By Walking) Sandbox Percussion (Akiho: Seven Pillars) Sérgio Assad, Clarice Assad & Third Coast Percussion (Archetypes) Imani Winds (Bruits)	Unrecorded
2021	Pacifica Quartet (Contemporary Voices) beat 4 others Brooklyn Rider (Healing Modes) Ted Hearne (Hearne: Place) Devonté Hynes & Third Coast Percussion (Hynes: Fields) Dover Quartet (The Schumann Quartets)	Unrecorded
2020	Attacca Quartet (Shaw: Orange) beat 4 others Christopher Rountree & wild Up (Cerrone: The Pieces that Fall to Earth) PUBLIQuartet (Freedom & Faith) Third Coast Percussion (Perpetulum) Hermitage Piano Trio (Rachmaninoff - Hermitage Piano Trio)	Unrecorded
2019	Laurie Anderson & the Kronos Quartet (Landfall) beat 4 others Danish String Quartet (Beethoven, Shostakovich & Bach) Aizuri Quartet (Blueprinting) Leif Ove Andsnes & Marc-André Hamelin (Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring Concerto for Two Pianos) A Far Cry (Visions and Variations)	Unrecorded
2018	Patricia Kopatchinskaja & the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (Death & the Maiden) beat 4 others Arcangelo (Buxtehude: Trio Sonatas Op. 1) Stile Antico (Divine Theatre - Sacred Motets by Giaches de Wert) Joyce Yang & Augustin Hadelich (Franck, Kurtág, Previn & Schumann) Martha Argerich & (Martha Argerich & Friends - Live From Lugano 2016)	Unrecorded
2017	Third Coast Percussion (Steve Reich) beat 4 others ARC Ensemble with Kara Huber (Fitelberg: Chamber Works) Øyvind Gimse, Geir Inge Lotsberg & TrondheimSolistene (Reflections) Spektral Quartet (Serious Business) Lincoln Trio (Trios From our Homelands)	Unrecorded
2016	Eighth Blackbird (Filament) beat 4 others Tanja Tetzlaff, Christian Tetzlaff & Lars Vogt (Brahms: The Piano Trios) Nadia Shpachenko & Genevieve Feiwen Lee (Flaherty: Airdancing For Toy Piano, Piano & Electronics) Brad Wells & Roomful of Teeth (Render) Takács Quartet & Marc-André Hamelin (Shostakovich: Piano Quintet & String Quartet No. 2)	Unrecorded
2015	Hilary Hahn & Cory Smythe (In 27 Pieces: The Hilary Hahn Encores) beat 4 others David Krakauer (Dreams & Prayers) Steven Isserlis & Olli Mustonen (Martinu': Cello Sonatas Nos. 1-3) Partch (Partch: Castor & Pollux) New York Polyphony (Sing Thee Nowell)	Unrecorded
2014	Brad Wells & Roomful of Teeth (Roomful of Teeth) beat 4 others Leonidas Kavakos & Enrico Pace (Beethoven: Violin Sonatas) Vicki Ray (Cage: The 10,000 Things) Hélène Grimaud & Sol Gabetta (Duo) New York Polyphony (Times Go By Turns)	Unrecorded
2013	Eighth Blackbird (Meanwhile) beat 4 others Modern Mandolin Quartet (Americana) ZOFO Duet (Mind Meld) Boston Symphony Chamber Players (Profanes et Sacrées) Los Angeles Percussion Quartet (Rupa-Khandha)	Unrecorded
2012	Steven Mackey (Mackey: Lonely Motel - Music from Slide) beat 4 others Gabriela Frank (Frank: Hilos) Richard Savino (The Kingdoms of Castille) Patrick Dupré Quigley (A Seraphic Fire Christmas) Bay Brass (Sound The Bells!)	Unrecorded
2011	Jordi Savall (Dinastia Borja) beat 4 others Noel Edison (Whitacre, Eric: Choral Music) Peter Phillips (Victoria: Lamentations of Jeremiah) Oyvind Gimse & Geir Inge Lotsberg (Trondheimsolistene - In Folk Style) Harry Christophers (Ceremony And Devotion - Music for The Tudors)	Unrecorded
2010	Paul Hillier (Lang, David: The Little Match Girl Passion) beat 4 others Chamber Orchestra of Europe (Vivaldi: Concertos) Stile Antico (Song of Songs) Peter Phillips (Josquin: Missa Malheur Me Bat) Monica Huggett (Bach: Orchestral Suites for a Young Prince)	Unrecorded
2009	Charles Bruffy (Spotless Rose: Hymns To The Virgin Mary) beat 4 others Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble (Monk: Impermanence) Reinbert de Leeuw (Im Wunderschoenen Monat Mai) Roman Balashov (Tan Dun: Pipa Concerto; Hayashi: Viola Concerto; Takemitsu: Nostalgia) Oyvind Gimse (Divertimenti)	Unrecorded
2008	Yuri Bashmet (Stravinsky: Apollo, Concerto In D; Prokofiev: 20 Visions Fugitives) beat 4 others Stile Antico (Music for Compline) Kenneth Slowik (Mahler: Das Lied Von Der Erde) Frank Proto (Bridges - Eddie Daniels Plays the Music of Frank Proto) Swiss Baroque Soloists (Bach: Brandenburg Concertos)	Unrecorded
2007	Peter Rutenberg (Padilla: Sun of Justice) beat 4 others 12 Cellists of Berliner Philharmoniker (Angel Dances) Harry Christophers (Ikon) Jordi Savall (Miguel de Cervantes – Don Quijote De La Mancha – Romances y Músicas) Yuri Bashmet (Shostakovich/Sviridov/Vainberg: Chamber Symphonies)	Unrecorded
2006	Pierre Boulez (Boulez: Le Marteau Sans Maître, Dérive 1 & 2) beat 4 others Jeff von der Schmidt (Chávez: Complete Chamber Music, Vol. 3) Nicholas White (O Magnum Mysterium) David Hoose (Harbison: Mottetti Di Montale) David Colson (Ancient Voices of Children)	Unrecorded
2005	Jeff von der Schmidt (Chávez - Complete Chamber Music, Vol. 2)repeat beat 4 others Yehudi Wyner (Wyner: The Mirror; Passover Offering, Etc.) Jeanne Lamon (Rameau: Dardanus; Le Temple De La Gloire) Bill Ives (Gibbons: with a Merrie Noyse) Musica Antiqua Köln (Biber: Harmonia Artificiosa)	Unrecorded
2004	Jeff von der Schmidt (Chávez: Suite for Double Quartet) beat 4 others Europa Galante (Vivaldi: Mandolin Concertos) New London Consort (Songs of Angels) René Jacobs (Monteverdi: Madrigali Guerrieri Ed Amorosi) Ensemble Modern (Goebbels: Eislermaterial)	Unrecorded
2003	Joseph Jennings (Tavener: Lamentations and Praises) beat 4 others Martyn Brabbins (Birtwistle: The Woman and the Hare) Dufay Collective (Cancionero: Music for the Spanish Court 1470-1520) Kremerata Baltica & Gidon Kremer (Enescu: Octet, Op. 7; Quintet, Op. 29) Steven Richman (Stravinsky: Histoire Du Soldat Suite)	Unrecorded
2002	Kremerata Baltica (After Mozart) beat 4 others Jordi Savall (Alfons V El Magnànim - El Cancionero De Montecassino) Peter Phillips (Morales: Missa Si Bona Suscepimus) Hervé Niquet (Boismortier: Sérénades Françaises) Kristjan Järvi (Absolution)	Unrecorded
2001	Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (Shadow Dances) beat 4 others Reinhard Goebel (Telemann: String Concertos) 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic (South American Getaway) Claudio Abbado (Hindemith: Kammermusik Nr. 2, 3, 6 & 7) Jordi Savall (Diáspora Sefardí)	Unrecorded
2000	Joseph Jennings (Colors of Love - Works of Thomas, Stucky, Tavener & Rands) beat 5 others Moscow Soloists (Brahms: Quintet in B Minor for Viola & Strings Arr. By Bashmet/Shostakovich: Thirteenth String Quartet in B Flat Minor Arr. By A. Tchaikovsky) Joseph Jennings (Colors of Love) Federico Maria Sardelli (Corelli: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6, Nos. 7 - 12) René Jacobs (Scarlatti: Il Primo Omicidio) Pierre Boulez (Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21; Herzegewächse, Op. 20; Ode To Napoleon Buonaparte, Op. 41)	Unrecorded

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