Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance) has been awarded since 1997. In its early years, its title included the addition "" and up to 2012 it was known as Best Small Ensemble Performance..
In 1991 the Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance also included small ensemble performances.

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2012 overhaul and 2013 renaming

In 2012 the category was combined with the Best Chamber Music Performance category.
The restructuring of these categories was a result of the Recording Academy's wish to decrease the list of categories and awards. According to the Academy, "the Chamber category was folded into the Small Ensemble category, the only distinction having been the number of players in the group, and the fact that Small Ensemble recording could, though not necessarily, employ a conductor."
In the new structure, recordings are eligible if the ensemble contains 24 or fewer members, not including the conductor.
In 2013, the category was renamed as Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance.
The award goes to the winning ensemble and its conductor. The producer and engineer also receive an award if they have worked on over 50% of playing time on the album.
Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.

Winners and nominees

Year	Recipient	Work	Nominees	Ref.
1997	Pierre Boulez and the Ensemble Inter-Contemporain	Boulez:...Explosante-Fixe...
1998	Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmonic	"Hindemith: Kammermusik No. 1 With Finale 1921, Op. 24, No. 1"
1999	Steve Reich, Steve Reich and Musicians	Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
2000	Joseph Jennings and Chanticleer	Colors of Love - Works of Thomas, Stucky, Tavener & Rands
2001	Christian Gausch, Wolf-Dieter Karwatky and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra	Shadow Dances
2002	Helmut Mühle, Philipp Nedel, Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica	After Mozart
2003	Steve Barnett, Preston Smith, Joseph Jennings, Chanticleer & Handel & Haydn Society of Boston	Tavener: Lamentations and Praises
2004	Jeff von der Schmidt and Southwest Chamber Music	"Chávez: Suite for Double Quartet"
2005	Jeff von der Schmidt and Southwest Chamber Music	Chávez - Complete Chamber Music, Vol. 2
2006	Pierre Boulez, Hilary Summers, and Ensemble Intercontemporain	Boulez: Le Marteau Sans Maître, Dérive 1 & 2
2007	Peter Rutenberg and Los Angeles Chamber Singers' Cappella	Padilla: Sun of Justice
2008	Yuri Bashmet and Moscow Soloists; Michael Brammann, engineer; Philipp Nedel, producer	Stravinsky: Apollo, Concerto In D; Prokofiev: 20 Visions Fugitives
2009	Charles Bruffy and Phoenix Chorale	Spotless Rose: Hymns To The Virgin Mary
2010	Paul Hillier ; Robina G. Young, producer; Brad Michel, engineer/mixer and Ars Nova Copenhagen & Theatre of Voices	Lang, David: The Little Match Girl Passion
2011	Jordi Savall, conductor; Hespèrion XXI & La Capella Reial de Catalunya	Dinastia Borja
2012	Rinde Eckert ; Steven Mackey ; David Frost, producer; Eighth Blackbird	Mackey: Lonely Motel - Music from Slide
2013	Eighth Blackbird	Meanwhile
2014	Brad Wells & Roomful of Teeth	Roomful of Teeth
2015	Hilary Hahn & Cory Smythe	In 27 Pieces: The Hilary Hahn Encores
2016	Eighth Blackbird	Filament
2017	Third Coast Percussion	Steve Reich
2018	Patricia Kopatchinskaja & the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra	Death & the Maiden
2019	Laurie Anderson & the Kronos Quartet	Landfall
2020	Attacca Quartet ; Antonio Oliart & Caroline Shaw ; Antonio Oliart	Shaw: Orange
2021	Pacifica Quartet; James Ginsburg ; Bill Maylone	Contemporary Voices
2022	Yo-Yo Ma & Emanuel Ax	Beethoven: Cello Sonatas - Hope Amid Tears
2023	Attacca Quartet	Shaw: Evergreen
2024	Roomful of Teeth	Rough Magic	Anthony McGill & The Pacifica Quartet – American Stories Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax & Leonidas Kavakos – Beethoven For Three: Symphony No. 6 "Pastorale" and Op 1. No. 3 Third Coast Percussion – Between Breaths Catalyst Quartet – Uncovered, Vol. 3: Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, William Grant Still & George Walker
2025	Caroline Shaw & So Percussion	Rectangles and Circumstance	JACK Quartet – J.L. Adams: Waves & Particles Yo-Yo Ma, Leonidas Kavakos & Emanuel Ax – Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 4 and Op. 97, 'Archduke' Beth Willer, Christopher Cerrone & Lorelei Ensemble – Cerrone: Beaufort Scales Miró Quartet – Home
2026	Winner TBA on 1 February 2026.		Alan Pierson & The Alarm Will Sound - Dennehy: Land of Winter Neave Trio - La Mer - French Piano Trios Lili Haydn & Paul Cantelon - Lullabies for the Brokenhearted Mak Grgić & Mateusz Kowalski - Slavic Sessions Third Coast Percussion - Standard Stoppages