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Every Grammys Best Engineered Album, Classical winner

26 ceremonies, 2000–2025. 24 different winners.

The 2011 award was a two-way tie, shared by the teams behind the Daugherty and Quincy Porter records.

David Frost & Charlie Post ×2Michael J. Bishop ×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.
Markus Heiland'00
John M. Eargle'01
Richard King'02
Michael J. Bishop'03
Richard King & Todd Whitelock'04
Jack Renner'05
Da-Hong Seetoo'06
Michael J. Bishop'07
John Newton'08
David Frost, Tom Lazarus & Christopher Willis'09
Peter Laenger'10
Mark Donahue, John Hill & Dirk Sobotka'11
Byeong-Joon Hwang and John Newton'12
Tom Caulfield & John Newton'13
David Frost, Brian Losch & Tim Martyn'14
Michael Bishop'15
Leslie Ann Jones, John Kilgore, Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum & Justin Merrill'16
Mark Donahue, David L. Williams & Fred Vogler'17
Mark Donahue'18
Shawn Murphy & Nick Squire'19
Leslie Ann Jones'20
David Frost & Charlie Post'21
Leslie Ann Jones & Michael Rowanoski'22
Shawn Murphy, Charlie Post & Gary Rydstrom'23
David Frost & Charlie Post'24
Mark Donahue & John Newton'25

Who kept losing

Counting nominations in this category only, 2000–2025.

Most nominated, never won

  • Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay6 noms
  • Keith O. Johnson6 noms
  • Morten Lindberg6 noms
  • Daniel Shores3 noms
  • Bill Maylone & Christopher Willis2 noms
  • Jesse Lewis & John Newton2 noms

Most losses

  • Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay6L · 0W
  • Keith O. Johnson6L · 0W
  • Mark Donahue6L · 1W
  • Morten Lindberg6L · 0W
  • Jack Renner5L · 1W
  • Daniel Shores3L · 0W

The full list

YearWinnerLabel
2025Mark Donahue & John Newton (Bruckner: Symphony No. 7; Bates: Ressurexit)
beat 4 others
  • Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay (Adams: Girl of the Golden West)
  • Silas Brown, Doron Schachter & Michael Schwartz (Andres: The Blind Banister)
  • Daniel Shores (Clear Voices in the Dark)
  • Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay (Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina)
Unrecorded
2024David Frost & Charlie Post (Contemporary American Composers)
beat 4 others
  • Patrick Dillet, Mitchell Graham, Jesse Lewis, Kyle Pyke, Andrew Scheps & John Weston (The Blue Hour)
  • Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay (Fandango)
  • Christopher Moretti & John Weston (Sanlıkol: A Gentleman of Istanbul - Symphony for Strings, Percussion, Piano, Oud, Ney & Tenor)
  • Mark Donahue (Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 & Schulhoff: Five Pieces)
Unrecorded
2023Shawn Murphy, Charlie Post & Gary Rydstrom (Bates: Philharmonia Fantastique - The Making of the Orchestra)
beat 4 others
  • Mark Donahue (Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 / Stucky: Silent Spring)
  • Mark Alletag, Jonathan Lackey, Bill Maylone & Dan Nichols (Perspectives)
  • Morten Lindberg (Tuvayhun - Beatitudes For A Wounded World)
  • Bernhard Güttler, Shawn Murphy & Nick Squire (Williams: Violin Concerto No. 2 & Selected Film Themes)
Unrecorded
2022Leslie Ann Jones & Michael Rowanoski (Chanticleer Sings Christmas)
beat 4 others
  • Jonathan Lackey, Billy Maylone & Dan Nichols (Archetypes)
  • Richard King (Beethoven: Cello Sonatas - Hope Amid Tears)
  • Mark Donahue (Beethoven: Symphony No. 9)
  • Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay (Mahler: Symphony No. 8, "Symphony of a Thousand")
Unrecorded
2021David Frost & Charlie Post (Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13, Babi Yar)
beat 4 others
  • David Frost & John Kerswell (Gershwin: Porgy and Bess)
  • Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay (Ives: Complete Symphonies)
  • Kyle Pyke (Hynes: Fields)
  • Bernd Gottinger (Danielpour: The Passion of Yeshua)
Unrecorded
2020Leslie Ann Jones (Riley: Sun Rings)
beat 4 others
  • Keith O. Johnson (Rachmaninoff - Hermitage Piano Trio)
  • Daniel Shores (Aequa - Anna Thorvaldsdóttir)
  • Mark Donahue (Bruckner: Symphony No. 9)
  • Bob Hanlon, Ian Good (Wolfe: Fire in my Mouth)
Unrecorded
2019Shawn Murphy & Nick Squire (Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11)
beat 5 others
  • Mark Donahue (Bates: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs)
  • Mark Donahue (Beethoven: Symphony No. 3/R. Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1)
  • Keith O. Johnson (John Williams At The Movies)
  • Bill Maylone (Liquid Melancholy - Clarinet Music of James M. Stephenson)
  • Tom Caulfield (Visions and Variations)
Unrecorded
2018Mark Donahue (Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio)
beat 4 others
  • Keith O. Johnson & Sean Royce Martin (Schoenberg, Adam: American Symphony; Finding Rothko; Picture Studies)
  • Morten Lindberg (Kleiberg: Mass for Modern Man)
  • John Newton and Jesse Brayman (Tyberg: Masses)
  • Gary Call (Danielpour: Songs of Solitude & War Songs)
Unrecorded
2017Mark Donahue, David L. Williams & Fred Vogler (Corigliano: The Ghosts of Versailles)
beat 4 others
  • Shawn Murphy & Nick Squire (Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow - Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9)
  • Silas Brown & David Frost (Shadows of Sirius)
  • Morten Lindberg (Reflections)
  • Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay (Dutilleux: Sur Le Même Accord; Les Citations; Mystère de l'Instant & Timbres, Espace, Mouvement)
Unrecorded
2016Leslie Ann Jones, John Kilgore, Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum & Justin Merrill (Ask Your Mama)
beat 4 others
  • Keith O. Johnson & Sean Royce Martin (Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3, 'Organ')
  • Byeong Joon Hwang & John Newton (Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil)
  • Robert Friedrich (Monteverdi: Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria)
  • Dmitry Lipay (Dutilleux: Métaboles; L'Arbre Des Songes; Symphony No. 2, 'Le Double')
Unrecorded
2015Michael Bishop (Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem; Symphony No. 4; The Lark Ascending)
beat 4 others
  • David Frost & Christopher Willis & Tim Martyn (Riccardo Muti Conducts Mason Bates & Anna Clyne)
  • Dmitriy Lipay (Dutilleux: Symphony No. 1; Tout un Monde Lointain; The Shadows of Time)
  • Dmitriy Lipay & Nathaniel Reichman (John Luther Adams: Become Ocean)
  • Richard King & Wolfgang Schiefermair (John Adams: City Noir)
Unrecorded
2014David Frost, Brian Losch & Tim Martyn (Winter Morning Walks)
beat 4 others
  • Hans-Martin Renz, Wolfgang Rixius and Ulrich Ruscher (Vinci: Artaserse)
  • Mark Donahue & Jesse Lewis (Roomful of Teeth)
  • Morten Lindberg (La Voie Triomphale)
  • Morten Lindberg (Hymn to the Virgin)
Unrecorded
2013Tom Caulfield & John Newton (Life & Breath - Choral Works by Casper Clausen)
beat 4 others
  • Morten Lindberg (Souvenir)
  • Jesse Lewis & John Newton (Music for a Time of War)
  • Bruce Egre (Beethoven: The Late String Quartets, Op. 127 & 131)
  • Daniel Shores (Americana)
Unrecorded
2012Byeong-Joon Hwang and John Newton (Aldridge: Elmer Gantry)
beat 4 others
  • Torbjörn Samuelsson (Weinberg: Symphony No. 3 & Suite No. 4 from The Golden Key)
  • Arne Akselberg (Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4)
  • Tom Lazarus, Mat Lejeune, Bill Maylone & Jon Zacks (Mackey: Lonely Motel - Music from Slide)
  • Richard King (Glazunov: Complete Concertos)
Unrecorded
2011Mark Donahue, John Hill & Dirk Sobotka (Daugherty: Metropolis Symphony; Deus Ex Machina)tieLeslie Ann Jones, Kory Kruckenberg, Brandie Lane & David Sabee (Porter, Quincy: Complete Viola Works)
beat 3 others
  • Steven D. Miller, Allen M. Sides & Roger Treece (Vocabularies)
  • Mark Donahue, David Frost, Tom Lazarus, Steven Mackey & Dirk Sobotka (Mackey, Steven: Dreamhouse)
  • Robert J. Friedrich (Have You Ever Been...?)
Unrecorded
2010Peter Laenger (Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio From Symphony No. 10)
beat 4 others
  • John Newton & Dirk Sobotka (Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 15)
  • Jesse Lewis & John Newton (Ravel: Daphnis Et Chloé)
  • Judy Kirschner (QSF Plays Brubeck)
  • Neil Hutchinson & Jonathan Stokes (Britten: Billy Budd)
Unrecorded
2009David Frost, Tom Lazarus & Christopher Willis (Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago)
beat 4 others
  • John Newton (Respighi: Church Windows, Brazilian Impressions, Rossiniana)
  • Michael J. Bishop (Puccini: La Bohème)
  • Hans Peter L'Orange & Morten Lindberg (Divertimenti)
  • Fred Vogler (Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique)
Unrecorded
2008John Newton (Grechaninov: Passion Week)
beat 4 others
  • Lawrence L. Rock (R. Strauss: Don Juan, Death and Transfiguration)
  • Bruce Leek, Fred Vogler & Trent Walker (Spirit of the Season)
  • Arne Akselberg & Tobias Lehmann (Nielsen: Clarinet & Flute Concertos)
  • Keith O. Johnson (Garden of Dreams)
Unrecorded
2007Michael J. Bishop (Elgar: Enigma Variations; Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Four Sea Interludes)unverified
beat 4 others
  • Jack Renner (Vaughan Williams: Mass in G Min., and Other A Cappella Works)
  • John Newton (Requiem)
  • Wolf-Dieter Karwatky & Rainer Maillard (Mahler: Symphony No. 2)
  • Leslie Ann Jones & Judy Kirschner (Látigo)
Unrecorded
2006Da-Hong Seetoo (Mendelssohn: The Complete String Quartets)
beat 4 others
  • Barry Wolifson (Chesky: Area 31)
  • Roger de Schot & Erdo Groot (Bruckner: Sym. No. 7)
  • Jin Choi, Jean-Marie Geijsen & Erdo Groot (Britten, Bartok & Hartmann)
  • Tim Handley (Bolcom: Songs)
Unrecorded
2005Jack Renner (Higdon: City Scape; Concerto for Orchestra)
beat 4 others
  • Wolfgang Decker & Charly Morell (Turnage-Scofield: Scorched)
  • Robert J. Friedrich (LAGQ's Guitar Heroes)
  • Bill Maylone & Christopher Willis (Kurka: Symphonic Works)
  • Jean Chatauret & Jean-Martial Golaz (Glazunov: Symphony No. 5; The Seasons, Op. 67 (Complete Ballet))
Unrecorded
2004Richard King & Todd Whitelock (Obrigado Brazil)
beat 4 others
  • Phil Rowlands (Rorem: Three Symphonies)
  • Jack Renner (Rainbow Body)
  • Bill Maylone & Christopher Willis (Brahms/Joachim: Violin Concertos)
  • Leslie Ann Jones (Bach: The Piano Transcriptions of Bartók, Lipatti & Friedman)
Unrecorded
2003Michael J. Bishop (Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony (Sym. No. 1))
beat 4 others
  • Tony Faulkner (Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11)
  • Keith O. Johnson (Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances; Vocalise, Etc.)
  • Jack Renner (Orff: Carmina Burana)
  • John Newton (Chadwick: Orchestral Works)
Unrecorded
2002Richard King (Bernstein (Arr. Brohn & Corigliano): West Side Story Suite)
beat 4 others
  • Ralph Couzens (Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (Sym. No. 2, Org. 1913 Version))
  • Keith O. Johnson (Respighi: Belkis, Queen of Sheba-Suite; Dance of The Gnomes; The Pines of Rome)
  • Marc J. Aubort (Haydn: The Complete String Quartets)
  • Simon Rhodes (Berlioz: Les Troyens)
Unrecorded
2001John M. Eargle (Dvořák: Requiem, Op. 89; Sym. No. 9, Op. 95 "From the New World")
beat 4 others
  • Michael Bishop (Mahler: Symphony No. 1 "Titan")
  • Jack Renner (Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride)
  • Keith O. Johnson (Bolero!)
  • Jack Renner (Bach: Mass in B Minor)
Unrecorded
2000Markus Heiland (Stravinsky: The Firebird; The Rite of Spring; Perséphone)
beat 4 others
  • Michael Bishop & Thomas Knab (Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor)
  • Michael Bishop (Dvorák: Stabat Mater)
  • Marc Aubort (Dvorák: Piano Trio "Dumky", Op. 90 /Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 67/Rachmaninov: Vocalise)
  • David Moulton & Curt Wittig (Crumb: Ancient Voices of Children)
Unrecorded

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