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A visual history · Grammys

The winners who defined Classical Crossover.

12 ceremonies, 2000–2011. 11 different winners.

Who won most recently?
Lucas Richman in 2011 for Tin, Christopher: Calling All Dawns.
Who has won the most?
Yo-Yo Ma, 2 wins (2001, 2010).
  1. Tin, Christopher: Calling All DawnsLucas Richman
  2. Yo-Yo Ma & Friends: Songs of Joy and PeaceYo-Yo Ma
  3. Simple GiftsGregg Jackman
  4. A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John ColtraneTurtle Island String Quartet
  5. Simple GiftsBryn Terfel
  6. 4 + FourTurtle Island String Quartet, Ying Quartet
Years explored
2000–2011
Different winners
11
Category leader
Yo-Yo Ma · 2
About this record

It was awarded for the last time in 2011.

It began in 1999, before this dataset opens, and was discontinued in the 2012 restructuring; crossover records are now entered in whichever classical or genre category fits.

2000–2011

12 ceremonies

20002011

01 / The reigns

11 winners shaped this category.

The timeline turns the 2000–2011 record into a sequence of reigns. Longer bands reveal sustained runs; color shows the credited label.

  1. 01
    Yo-Yo Ma2 wins
One band per year, because no winner has gone back-to-back in the years on record. Colored by label; scroll sideways for the full run.
Chestnut Brass Company, Peter Schickele'00
Yo-Yo Ma'01
Béla Fleck'02
André Previn'03
Jorge Calandrelli'04
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet'05
Turtle Island String Quartet, Ying Quartet'06
Bryn Terfel'07
Turtle Island String Quartet'08
Gregg Jackman'09
Yo-Yo Ma'10
Lucas Richman'11

03 / The near misses

The names that kept coming back without the ending they wanted.

Counting nominations in this category only, 2000–2011.

Most nominated, never won this award

  1. 01
    Quartet San Francisco
    2 noms
  2. 02
    William Stromberg
    2 noms

Most losses in this category

  1. 01
    Quartet San Francisco
    2L · 0W
  2. 02
    William Stromberg
    2L · 0W
  3. 03
    Bryn Terfel
    1L · 1W
  4. 04
    Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
    1L · 1W

04 / The archive

Every year.
Every winner.

The complete reference behind the story, showing 2000–2011. Open any year to see the rest of the field when nominee records are available.

YearWinnerLabel
2011Lucas Richman (Tin, Christopher: Calling All Dawns)
beat 4 others
  • Matt Haimovitz (Meeting of the Spirits)
  • Silk Road Ensemble (Off the Map)
  • Jessye Norman (Roots - My Life, My Song)
  • Bobby McFerrin (Vocabularies)
Unrecorded
2010Yo-Yo Ma (Yo-Yo Ma & Friends: Songs of Joy and Peace)
beat 5 others
  • Craig Hella Johnson (A Company of Voices: Conspirare in Concert)
  • Paquito D'Rivera Quintet (Jazz-Clazz)
  • Leonard Slatkin (The Melody of Rhythm)
  • Quartet San Francisco (QSF Plays Brubeck)
  • Theo Bleckmann, Kneebody (Twelve Songs by Charles Ives)
Unrecorded
2009Gregg Jackman (Simple Gifts)unverified
beat 4 others
  • Gabriela Montero (Baroque)
  • Ronn McFarlane (Indigo Road)
  • East Village Opera Company (Olde School)
  • Uri Caine Ensemble (The Othello Symdrome)
Unrecorded
2008Turtle Island String Quartet (A Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane)
beat 4 others
  • Thomas Quasthoff (The Jazz Album - Watch What Happens)
  • Mack Wilberg (Spirit of the Season)
  • Quartet San Francisco (Whirled Chamber Music)
  • Brian Setzer, the Brian Setzer Orchestra (Wolfgang's Big Night Our)
Unrecorded
2007Bryn Terfel (Simple Gifts)
beat 4 others
  • Rumon Gamba (The Film Music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
  • David Lockington (Invention & Alchemy)
  • Quartet San Francisco, John Santos (Látigo)
  • Song Zu Ying, China National Symphony Orchestra (Song Zu Ying: The Diva Goes to the Movies)
Unrecorded
2006Turtle Island String Quartet, Ying Quartet (4 + Four)
beat 4 others
  • Imani Winds (The Classical Underground)
  • Paquito D'Rivera, Jazz Chamber Trio (The Jazz Chamber Trio)
  • Roberto Minczuk (Jobim: Symphonic Jobim)
  • William Stromberg (Steiner: The Adventures of Mark Twain)
Unrecorded
2005Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (LAGQ's Guitar Heroes)
beat 4 others
  • Cuba Percussion, Klazz Brothers (Classic Meets Cuba)
  • Daniel Hope (East Meets West)
  • William Stromberg (Korngold: The Adventures of Robin Hood)
  • Hugh Wolff (Turnage-Scofield: Scorched)
Unrecorded
2004Jorge Calandrelli (Obrigado Brazil)
beat 4 others
  • Kronos Quartet, The Tiger Lillies (The Gorey End)
  • Joel McNeely (Herrmann: The Day the Earth Stood Still)
  • Ali Jackson (Into the Blue)
  • Joseph Jennings (Our American Journey)
Unrecorded
2003André Previn (Previn Conducts Korngold)
beat 5 others
  • Allison Brewster Franzetti (Franzetti: Poeta de Arrabal - Tango Ballet)
  • Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (LAGQ Latin)
  • Ian Bostridge (The Noel Coward Songbook)
  • Kronos Quartet (Nuevo)
  • Gary Burton, Makoto Ozone (Virtuosi)
Unrecorded
2002Béla Fleck (Perpetual Motion)
beat 4 others
  • David Zinman (Bernstein: West Side Story Suite)
  • Jonathan Sheffer (Celluloid Copland)
  • Bernd Ruf (The Clarinetist Volume One)
  • Jose Ramon Urbay (La Musica de Ernesto Lecuona)
Unrecorded
2001Yo-Yo Ma (Appalachian Journey)
beat 4 others
  • King's Singers (Circle of Life)
  • Chick Corea (Corea Concerto)
  • Dave Grusin (Two Worlds)
  • Bryn Terfel (We'll Keep a Welcome - The Welsh Album)
Unrecorded
2000Chestnut Brass Company, Peter Schickele (Schickele: Hornsmoke)
beat 5 others
  • Buryl Red (Beautiful Star - A Celebration of Christmas)
  • Vance George (Christmas by the Bay)
  • Paul Daniel (If Ever I Would Leave You - The Songs of Alan Jay Lerner)
  • Joshua Bell (Meyer: Short Trip Home)
  • Canadian Brass (Tale the "A" Train - Canadian Brass Play the Music of Duke Ellington)
Unrecorded