Every Grammys Best Choral Performance winner

26 ceremonies, 2000–2025. 20 different winners. The longest run was Simon Rattle, 2 years straight (2008–2009).

Donald Nally ×4Charles Bruffy ×2Robert Spano ×2Simon Rattle ×2

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

Robert Shafer'00

Helmuth Rilling'01

Nikolaus Harnoncourt'02

Robert Spano'03

Paavo Järvi'04

Robert Spano'05

Leonard Slatkin'06

Paul Hillier'07

Simon Rattle'08–'09×2

Michael Tilson Thomas'10

Riccardo Muti'11

Eric Whitacre'12

Charles Bruffy'13

Tõnu Kaljuste'14

Craig Hella Johnson'15

Charles Bruffy'16

Krzysztof Penderecki'17

Donald Nally'18–'19×2

Robert Simpson'20

JoAnn Falletta'21

Gustavo Dudamel'22

Donald Nally'23

Nils Schweckendiek'24

Donald Nally'25

Who kept losing

Counting nominations in this category only, 2000–2025.

Most nominated, never won

Antoni Wit5 noms
Matthew Guard4 noms
Stephen Layton4 noms
Harry Christophers3 noms
John Eliot Gardiner3 noms
Paul McCreesh3 noms

Most losses

Craig Hella Johnson6L · 1W
Donald Nally6L · 4W
Antoni Wit5L · 0W
Matthew Guard4L · 0W
Paul Hillier4L · 1W
Stephen Layton4L · 0W

The full list

Year	Winner	Label
2025	Donald Nally (Ochre) beat 4 others Matthew Guard (Clear Voices in the Dark) Eric Holtan (A Dream So Bright - Choral Music of Jake Runestad) Jeannette Sorrell (Handel: Israel in Egypt) Elaine Kelly (Sheehan: Akathist)	Unrecorded
2024	Nils Schweckendiek (Saariaho: Reconnaissance) beat 4 others Donald Nally (Carols After a Plague) Craig Hella Johnson (The House of Belonging) Esa-Pekka Salonen (Ligeti: Lux Aeterna) Steven Fox (Rachmaninoff: All Night Vigil)	Unrecorded
2023	Donald Nally (Born) beat 2 others John Eliot Gardiner (Bach: St. John Passion) Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Verdi: Requiem - The Met Remembers 9/11)	Unrecorded
2022	Gustavo Dudamel (Mahler: Symphony No. 8 (Symphony of a Thousand)) beat 5 others Matthew Guard (It's A Long Way) Donald Nally (Rising (With The Crossing)) Kaspars Putniņš (Schnittke: Choir Concerto; Three Sacred Hymns; Pärt: Seven Magnificat Antiphons) Benedict Sheehan (Sheehan: Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom) Craig Hella Johnson (The Singing Guitar)	Unrecorded
2021	JoAnn Falletta (Danielpour: The Passion of Yeshua) beat 4 others Donald Nally (Carthage) Leonard Slatkin (Kastalsky: Requiem) Kent Tritle (Moravec: Sanctuary Road) Matthew Guard (Once Upon a Time)	Unrecorded
2020	Robert Simpson (Duruflé: Complete Choral Works) beat 4 others Donald Nally (Boyle: Voyages) Craig Hella Johnson (The Hope of Loving) Peter Jermihov (Sander: The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom) Donald Nally (Smith, K.: The Arc in the Sky)	Unrecorded
2019	Donald Nally (McLoskey: Zealot Canticles)repeat beat 4 others Vladimir Gorbik (Chesnokov: Teach Me Thy Statutes) Steven Fox (Kastalsky: Memory Eternal) Mariss Jansons (Rachmaninov: The Bells) Matthew Guard (Seven Words From The Cross)	Unrecorded
2018	Donald Nally (Bryars: The Fifth Century) beat 4 others Andrew Davis (Händel: Messiah) Alexander Liebreich (Mansurian: Requiem) Nigel Short (Music of the Spheres) Brian A. Schmidt (Tyberg: Masses)	Unrecorded
2017	Krzysztof Penderecki (Penderecki Conducts Penderecki, Volume 1) beat 4 others Elisabeth Holte (Himmelrand) Edward Gardner (Janácek: Glagolitic Mass) Donald Nally (Lloyd: Bonhoeffer) Steven Fox (Steinberg: Passion Week)	Unrecorded
2016	Charles Bruffy (Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil) beat 4 others Bernard Haitink (Beethoven: Missa Solemnis) Harry Christophers (Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610) Craig Hella Johnson (Pablo Neruda - The Poet Sings) Eric Holtan (Paulus: Far in the Heavens)	Unrecorded
2015	Craig Hella Johnson (The Sacred Spirit of Russia) beat 4 others René Jacobs (Bach: Matthäus-Passion) Vivianne Sydness (Dyrud: Out of Darkness) Andrew Davis (Holst: First Choral Symphony; The Mystic Trumpeter) John Butt (Mozart: Requiem)	Unrecorded
2014	Tõnu Kaljuste (Pärt: Adam's Lament) beat 4 others Colin Davis (Berlioz: Grande Messe de Morts) Harry Christophers (Palestrina: Volume 3) Neeme Järvi (Parry: Works for Chorus & Orchestra) James Jordan (Whitbourn: Annelies)	Unrecorded
2013	Charles Bruffy (Life & Breath - Choral Works by René Clausen) beat 4 others Julian Wachner (Handel: Israel in Egypt) Peter Eötvös (Ligeti: Requiem; Apparitions; San Francisco Polyphony) Stephen Layton (Prauliņš: The Nightingale) Hervé Niquet (Striggio: Mass for 40 and 60 Voices)	Unrecorded
2012	Eric Whitacre (Light & Gold) beat 4 others Stephen Layton (Beyond All Mortal Dreams - American A Cappella) Patrick Dupré Quigley (Brahms: Ein Deutsche Requiem, op. 45) Kjetl Almenning (Kind) Paul Hillier (The Natural World of Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen)	Unrecorded
2011	Riccardo Muti (Verdi: Requiem) beat 4 others Daniel Reuss (Martin: Golgotha) René Jacobs (Haydn: The Creation) Paul Hillier (Baltic Runes) Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Bach: Cantatas)	Unrecorded
2010	Michael Tilson Thomas (Mahler: Symphony No. 8) beat 4 others Paul McCreesh (A Spotless Rose) Dennis Keene (Song of the Stars: Granados, Casals & Blancafort) Antoni Wit (Penderecki: Utrenja) Harry Christophers (Handel: Coronation Anthems)	Unrecorded
2009	Simon Rattle (Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms)repeat beat 4 others Colin Davis (Tippett: A Child of Our Time) Antoni Wit (Szymanowski, Karol: Stabat Mater) Charles Bruffy (Rheinberger: Sacred Choral Works) Craig Hella Johnson (O'Regan, Tarik: Threshold of Night)	Unrecorded
2008	Simon Rattle (Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem) beat 4 others Michael Gielen (Schönberg: Gurrelieder) Antoni Wit (Penderecki: Symphony No. 7 'Seven Gates of Jerusalem') Charles Bruffy (Grechaninov: Passion Week) Riccardo Muti (Cherubini: Missa Solemnis In E)	Unrecorded
2007	Paul Hillier (Pärt: Da Pacem) beat 4 others Stephen Layton (Whitacre: Cloudburst and Other Choral Works) Craig Hella Johnson (Requiem) Paul McCreesh (Mozart: Great Mass in C Minor) Øystein Fevang (Immortal Nystedt)	Unrecorded
2006	Leonard Slatkin (Bolcom: Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience: Requiem) beat 4 others Laurence Equilbey (Schoenberg: Accentus) Antoni Wit (Penderecki: A Polish Requiem) Stephen Layton (Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna) Kent Nagano (Bernstein: Mass)	Unrecorded
2005	Robert Spano (Berlioz: Requiem) beat 4 others Volodymyr Sirenko (Silvestrov: Requiem for Larissa) Stephen Cleobury (Rachmaninov: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom) Antoni Wit (Penderecki: St. Luke Passion) Paul Hillier (Baltic Voices 2)	Unrecorded
2004	Paavo Järvi (Sibelius: Cantatas) beat 4 others Laurence Equilbey (Transcriptions) Edward Higginbottom (Pergolesi: Marian Vespers) Paul Hillier (Baltic Voices 1) Dale Warland (Argento: Walden Pond)	Unrecorded
2003	Robert Spano (Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony (Sym. No. 1)) beat 4 others Claudio Abbado (Verdi: Messa Da Requiem) Donald Runnicles (Orff: Carmina Burana) Valery Gergiev (Gubaidulina: Johannes-Passion) Philippe Herreweghe (Bach: St. John Passion)	Unrecorded
2002	Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Bach: St Matthew Passion) beat 4 others Helmuth Rilling (Rihm: Deus Passus - Passions-Stücke Nach Lukas) Maria Guinand (Golijov: La Pasión Según San Marcos) Giuseppe Sinopoli (Dvorák: Stabat Mater) Sir John Eliot Gardiner (Bach: Christmas Cantatas)	Unrecorded
2001	Helmuth Rilling (Penderecki: Credo) beat 4 others Philippe Herreweghe (Bach: St. Matthew Passion) Martin Pearlman (Bach: Mass in B Minor) John Eliot Gardiner (Bach: Easter Cantatas BWV 6 & 66) Helmuth Rilling (Bach: Christmas Oratorio)	Unrecorded
2000	Robert Shafer (Britten: War Requiem) beat 4 others Paul McCreesh (Handel: Solomon) Franz Welser-Möst (Schmidt: Book of the Seven Seals) John Eliot Gardiner (Schubert: Mass in A Flat) Sir Simon Rattle (Walton: Belshazzar's Feast)	Unrecorded

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