Every Grammys Best Classical Crossover Album winner

12 ceremonies, 2000–2011. 11 different winners.

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.

Yo-Yo Ma ×2

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

Who kept losing

Counting nominations in this category only, 2000–2011.

Most nominated, never won

Quartet San Francisco2 noms
William Stromberg2 noms

Most losses

Quartet San Francisco2L · 0W
William Stromberg2L · 0W
Bryn Terfel1L · 1W
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet1L · 1W

The full list

Year	Winner	Label
2011	Lucas 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
2010	Yo-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
2009	Gregg 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
2008	Turtle 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
2007	Bryn 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
2006	Turtle 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
2005	Los 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
2004	Jorge 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
2003	André 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
2002	Béla 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
2001	Yo-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
2000	Chestnut 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

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