FYC: New Focus titles on 2026 First Round Grammy Ballot
NF titles on First Round Grammy Ballot
For Your Consideration: Please follow the links posted to this news item to stream complete tracks on the albums pages while the ballot is open
Best Engineering, Classical
Ryan Streber: (Loadbang: A Garden Adorned)
Murat Çolak (As I Write This: Songs & Solos of Aaron Helgeson)
Best Opera Recording
Kate Soper: The Romance of the Rose
Makaris: Allan Ramsay'sThe Gentle Shepherd
Best Classical Instrumental Solo
Jing Yang (Nils Vigeland: Perfect Happiness)
Gahlord Dewald (Leilehua Lanzilotti: forever forward in seach of the beautiful)
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
Loadbang: A Garden Adorned
Exceptet: Tree Lines
Best Classical Compendium
As I Write This: Songs & Solos of Aaron Helgeson
Leilehua Lanzilotti: forever forward in seach of the beautiful
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
Amos Elkana: Que sais je? (Amos Elkana: Que sais je?)
Reiko Füting: Von Der Stadt (Reiko Füting: distant:violin.sound)
Yotam Haber: In A Rug Of Water (Loadbang: A Garden Adorned)
Aaron Helgeson: Once a While in Time (As I Write This: Songs & Solos of Aaron Helgeson)
Katherine Balch: Tree Lines (Exceptet: Tree Lines)
Best Arrangement
Hardanger Transcriptions (As I Write This: Songs & Solos of Aaron Helgeson)
Best Album Cover
Jasmine Parsia (Leilehua Lanzilotti: forever forward in seach of the beautiful)
