Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year


The Juno Award for "Instrumental Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1976, as recognition each year for the best instrumental album in Canada. The award was originally called the "Instrumental Artist of the Year".

Winners

Instrumental Album of the Year (2003 - Present)

YearPerforming artistWorkNomineesRef.
2003Robert MichaelsAllegro
2004I SorentiItalian Love Songs
  • Richard Abel, Romance
  • George Carlaw, Stress Less
  • The Covingtons, Country Christmas
  • Michel Cusson, Un homme et son péché
    • 2005Oscar LopezMi Destino/My Destiny
  • Longhouse, A Warrior's Journey
  • Loretto Reid and Dan Gibson, Celtic Reverie
  • Montgomery Smith, Rest & Relaxation
  • Kenny Vehkavaara nad Rob Piltch, Mediterranean Nights
    • 2006Daniel LanoisBelladonna
  • George Carlaw, Christmas Serenity
  • Bobby Creed & His Orchestra, Sentimental Strings
  • Tomas Hamilton, Balance
  • Nancy Walker, Rainy Days and Mondays
    • 2007Sisters EuclidRun Neil Run
  • Bell Orchestre, Recording a Tape the Colour of the Light
  • Joël Fafard, ...and another thing
  • Johannes Linstead, Café Tropical
  • Natalie MacMaster, Yours Truly
    • 2008Jayme StoneThe Utmost
  • Bob Lanois, Snake Road
  • Amon Tobin, Foley Room
  • Richard Underhill, Kensington Suite
  • Joey Wright, Jalopy
    • 2009DJ Brace presents The Electric Nosehair OrchestraNostomania
  • Creaking Tree String Quartet, The Soundtrack
  • Steve Dawson, Telescope
  • Inhabitants, The Furniture Moves Underneath
  • Tanya Tagaq, Auk/Blood
    • 2010Bell OrchestreAs Seen Through The Windows
  • Beats on Canvas, Beats on Canvas
  • The Hylozoists, L'île de Sept Villes
  • Pavlo, Rik Emmett and Oscar Lopez, Trifecta
  • Sultans of String, Yalla Yalla!
    • 2011Fond of TigersContinent & Western
  • David Braid and Canadian Brass, Spirit Dance
  • Creaking Tree String Quartet, Sundogs
  • The Souljazz Orchestra, Rising Sun
  • Jayme Stone, Room of Wonders
    • 2012Stretch OrchestraStretch Orchestra
  • Andrew Collins, Cats & Dogs
  • MAZ, Téléscope
  • L'Orkestre des Pas Perdus, L'Âge du cuivre
  • Colin Stetson, New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
    • 2013Pugs and CrowsFantastic Pictures
  • Five Alarm Funk, Rock the Sky
  • Ian McDougall, The Very Thought of You
  • Ratchet Orchestra, Hemlock
  • Hugh Sicotte and Jon Ballantyne, Twenty Accident Free Work Days
    • 2014EsmerineDalmak
  • Petr Cancura, Down Home
  • Mahogany Frog, Senna
  • The Peggy Lee Band, Invitation
  • Colin Stetson, New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light
    • 2015QuartangoEncuentro
  • Canadian Brass, Great Wall of China
  • Daniel Lanois, Flesh and Machine
  • John Stetch, Off with the Cuffs
  • Sultans of String, Symphony!
    • 2016Colin Stetson and Sarah NeufeldNever Were the Way She Was
  • Afiara Quartet and Skratch Bastid, Spin Cycle
  • Cris Derksen, Orchestral Powwow
  • Esmerine, Lost Voices
  • Jens Lindemann and Tommy Banks, Legacy Live
    • 2017The FretlessBird's Nest
  • Blitz//Berlin, Movements 1
  • David Braid, Flow
  • Sarah Neufeld, The Ridge
  • Pugs & Crows and Tony Wilson, Everyone Knows Everyone
    • 2018Do Make Say ThinkStubborn Persistent Illusions
  • Five Alarm Funk, Sweat
  • Kristofer Maddigan, Cuphead
  • Oktopus, Hapax
  • Peregrine Falls, Peregrine Falls
    • 2019Gordon GrdinaChina Cloud
  • Aerialists, Group Manoeuvre
  • Kevin Breit, Johnny Goldtooth and the Chevy Casanovas
  • The Fretless, Live from the Art Farm
  • Toninato/Thiessen, The Space Between Us
    • 2020Alexandra StréliskiInscape
  • Kevin Hearn, Calm and Cents
  • Bill McBirnie and Bernie Senesky, The Silent Wish
  • Ron Davis' Symphronica, Symphronica Upfront
  • Tanya Tagaq, Toothsayer
    • 2021Blitz//BerlinMovements III
  • Bruce Cockburn, Crowing Ignites
  • David Foster, Eleven Words
  • Flore Laurentienne, Volume 1
  • Gordon Grdina, Prior Street
    • 2022David MylesThat Tall Distance
  • Cœur de pirate, Perséides
  • Frank Evans and Ben Plotnick, Madison Archives
  • Jorane, Hemenetset
  • Jens Lindemann with Jon Kimura Parker, Matt Catingub and the Canadian All Star JazzPops Orchestra, Then is Now Rhapsody in Blue
    • 2023EsmerineEverything Was Forever Until It Was No More
  • Jean-Michel Blais, Aubades
  • The Canadian Brass, Canadiana
  • Hard Rubber Orchestra, Iguana
  • Stephan Moccio, Lionheart
    • 2024Colin StetsonWhen we were that what wept for the sea
  • Meredith Bates, Tesseract
  • Markus Floats, Fourth Album
  • Haralabos (Harry) Stafylakis, Calibrating Friction
  • Alexandra Stréliski, Néo-Romance
    • 2025IntervalsMemory Palace
  • Eric Bearclaw, Distant Places
  • Disaster Pony, Disaster Pony
  • Ginger Beef, Ginger Beef
  • Lara Wong and Melón Jimenez, Confluencias
    • 2026TBA
  • Viviane Audet, Le piano et le torrent
  • Jean-Michel Blais and Lara Somogyi, Désert
  • Crown Lands, Ritual II
  • Aaron Paris, Lotusland
  • Colin Stetson, The Love It Took to Leave You