Award winners 2026
Award winners 2025
Andris Nelsons
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphonies & Oratorios
05
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Conductor of the Year
© Marco Borggreve
Dieter Ammann
glut - music for orchestra
06
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Composer of the Year
© René Mosele
© Ingo Hoehn
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Back to Nature: Čiurlionis & Gražinis
14
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Symphonic Recording of the Year
© Andreas Hechenberger
Joyce DiDonato, Michael Spyres, Maxime Emelyanychev, Il Pomo d'Oro
Purcell: Dido & Aeneas
16
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Opera Recording of the Year
Elena Schwarz, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Elsa Barraine: Symphonies 1 & 2
17
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World Premiere Recording of the Year
© Peter Adamik
Esther Abrami
Women
18
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Classic without Limits
© Stéphanie Volpato
Café del Mundo
GuitaRevolution Symphonic Tour
23
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Tour of the Year
© Andreas Budtke
Florian Aschenbrenner
501
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Special category Music Teacher of the Year
© Tobias Neubert
© Florian Aschenbrenner
Marcel Brunner
Remembrance
08
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Young Talent of the Year
© Máté Gál
Lucas & Arthur Jussen, Alexej Gerassimez & Emil Kuyumcuyan
Klavier-Duo trifft Percussion-Duo
Piano Duo Meets Percussion Duo
10
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Orchestra/ Ensemble Live-Performance of the Year
© Sebastian Madej
Christian Gerhaher
Brahms Lieder
Brahms Songs
11
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Solo Recording Singing of the Year
© Simon Koy
Wu Wei, Martin Stegner, Janne Saksala
Pur ti miro
13
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Chamber Music Recording of the Year
© Private collection - ECM Records
Alice Sara Ott
Jóhann Jóhannsson: Piano Works
20
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New Classic/Neoclassic
© Jonatan Gretarsson
Anastasia Kobekina, Sasha Waltz
BACH CELLO DANCE
22
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Innovative Concert of the Year
© Nicolas Hudak
Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch
Doppelgänger
24
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Audiovisual Music Production of the Year
© Gregor Hohenberg - Rendering DBOX
© Dario Acosta
Shani Diluka
Renaissance
25
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Video Clip of the Year
© LiliROZE / Parlophone Records Ltd.
© LiliROZE-Parlophone Records Ltd
Rainer Maillard
Mikhail Pletnev, Chopin & Scriabin: 24 Preludes
26
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Innovative Listening Experience of the Year
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© Rainer Maillard
Freiburger Barockorchester und Ensemble Recherche
HEAR! We move
27
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Prize for Promotion Young Talent (child and youth work)
Gregor A. Mayrhofer
Recycling Concerto
29
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Innovation Award for Sustainability
© SWR
Anna Lucia Richter
Gustav Mahler – Songs of Fate
01
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Female Singer of the Year
© Flo Huber
Andrè Schuen
Mozart
02
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Male Singer of the Year
© Christian Leopold
Yunchan Lim
J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations
03
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Instrumentalist of the Year
© Karolina Wielocha
Anna Lapwood
Konzerte im Kölner Dom
Concerts in Cologne Cathedral
04
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Solo Live-Performance of the Year
© Sondre Eriksen Hensema
© Becca Wheeler
Quatuor Ébène & Belcea Quartet
Mendelssohn / Enescu: Octets
09
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Orchestra/Ensemble of the Year
© CO MERZ / Parlophone Records Ltd.
Katharina Konradi
Franz Liszt: Un Cycle Imaginaire
11
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Solo Recording Singing of the Year
© Olivia Kahler
Voces8
Paul Smith: Revolutions
15
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Choral Recording of the Year
© Andy Staples
Duisburger Philharmoniker
Marxloh Music Circus
19
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Classic without Limits LIVE
© J. Konrad Schmidt
Aleksey Igudesman, Hans Zimmer
Schwarzes Gold (Music from the Original TV Series)
Black Gold (Music from the Original TV Series)
21
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Film Music/Score of the Year
© JuliaWesely
Konzerthaus Dortmund
SLOW
22
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Innovative Concert of the Year
© Oliver Hitzegrad
vision string quartet
in the fields
18
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Classic without Limits
© Sander Stuart
Alexander Malofeev
Forgotten Melodies
08
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Young Talent of the Year
© Dovile Sermokas
Jean Rondeau
Louis Couperin: The Complete Works
12
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Solo Recording Instrument of the Year
© Clément Vayssieres
Frank Peter Zimmermann
Bartók Sonatas Nos 1 & 2 for Violin & Piano / Szymanowski Mythes
12
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Solo Recording Instrument of the Year
© Harald Hoffmann
Shira Patchornik
Bella Furia
08
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Young Talent of the Year
© Loes Gorseling
Christian Tetzlaff
Elgar/Adès: Violin Concertos
03
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Instrumentalist of the Year
© Giorgia Bertazzi
© Giorgia Bertazzi
Sarah Willis
Cuban Christmas
03
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Instrumentalist of the Year
© Victor Cervantes
Simon Tetzlaff
Kodály, Sibelius, Ysaÿe
08
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Young Talent of the Year
© Georgia Bertazzi
