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Grammy Awards 2023: Winners Announced

The winners of the 65th annual Grammy Awards have now been revealed

Author: David MayPublished 6th Feb 2023
Last updated 7th Feb 2023

The 65th GRAMMY awards took place in Los Angeles' Crypto.com stadium with many classical acts and categories being recognised at the ceremony.

Among those celebrated was soprano Renée Fleming, who won the award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album for her album, Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene.

Composer Germaine Franco picked up the award for 'Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media' for her score for Encanto.

See below for our full abridged list of winners.

The 2023 GRAMMY Award nominations

Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media

• ELVIS

• Encanto – WINNER

Various Artists

• Stranger Things: Soundtrack from the Netflix Series, Season 4 (Vol 2)

• Top Gun: Maverick

• West Side Story

Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media

• The Batman

• Encanto – WINNER

Germaine Franco, composer

• No Time To Die

• The Power Of The Dog

• Succession: Season 3

Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media

• Aliens: Fireteam Elite

• Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Dawn Of Ragnarok – WINNER

Stephanie Economou, composer

• Call Of Duty®: Vanguard

• Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy

• Old World

Best Song Written For Visual Media

• Be Alive From King Richard

• Carolina From Where The Crawdads Sing

• Hold My Hand From Top Gun: Maverick

• Keep Rising (The Woman King) From The Woman King

• Nobody Like U From Turning Red

• We Don't Talk About Bruno From Encanto – WINNER

Lin-Manuel Miranda, songwriter

Best Orchestral Performance

Adams, John Luther: Sila - The Breath Of The World

• Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7-9

• Eastman: Stay On It

• John Williams - The Berlin Concert

• Works By Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery, Valerie Coleman – WINNER

Michael Repper, conductor (New York Youth Symphony)

Best Opera Recording

• Aucoin: Eurydice

• Blanchard: Fire Shut Up In My Bones – WINNER

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Angel Blue, Will Liverman, Latonia Moore & Walter Russell III; David Frost, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)

• Davis: X - The Life And Times Of Malcolm X

Best Choral Performance

• Bach: St. John Passion

• Born – WINNER

Donald Nally, conductor (Dominic German, Maren Montalbano, Rebecca Myers & James Reese; The Crossing)

• Verdi: Requiem - The Met Remembers 9/11

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

• Beethoven: Complete String Quartets, Volume 2 - The Middle Quartets

• Musical Remembrances

• Perspectives

• Shaw: Evergreen – WINNER

Attacca Quartet

• What Is American

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

• Abels: Isolation Variation

• Bach: The Art Of Life

• Beethoven: Diabelli Variations

• Letters For The Future – WINNER

Time For Three; Xian Zhang, conductor (The Philadelphia Orchestra)

• A Night In Upper Town - The Music Of Zoran Krajacic

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

• Eden

• How Do I Find You

• Okpebholo: Lord, How Come Me Here?

• Stranger - Works For Tenor By Nico Muhly

• Voice Of Nature - The Anthropocene – WINNER

Renée Fleming, soloist; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, pianist

Best Classical Compendium

• An Adoption Story – WINNER

Starr Parodi & Kitt Wakeley; Jeff Fair, Starr Parodi & Kitt Wakeley, producers

• Aspire

• A Concert For Ukraine

• The Lost Birds

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

• Akiho: Ligneous Suite

• Bermel: Intonations

• Gubaidulina: The Wrath Of God

• Puts: Contact – WINNER

Kevin Puts, composer (Xian Zhang, Time for Three & The Philadelphia Orchestra)

• Simon: Requiem For The Enslaved