2024 Juno nominees revealed

Canada's biggest names in music are set to make their way to Halifax for the 53rd annual Juno Awards. 

The 2024 nominees were announced Tuesday morning. Juno week runs from Thursday, March 21 through Sunday, March 24, culminating with The JUNO Awards Broadcast hosted by Nelly Furtado at the Scotiabank Centre. 

Find the list of classical and jazz nominees below! 

CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR (SOLO ARTIST)

• Infinite Voyage Barbara Hannigan 
• Nielsen: Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 4 James Ehnes 
• Fauré: Nocturnes & Barcarolles Marc-André Hamelin 
• De Hartmann: Cello Concerto Matt Haimovitz 
• mouvance Suzie LeBlanc 

CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR (LARGE ENSEMBLE)

• Bekah Simms: Bestiaries Cryptid Ensemble, Ensemble Contemporain de Montreal 
• Maxime Goulet: Symphonie de la tempête de verglas Orchestre classique de Montréal, conducted by Jacques Lacombe 
• Sibelius 3 & 4 Orchestre Métropolitain, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin
• Mahler: Symphony No. 5 Orchestre Symphonique De Montreal, conducted by Rafael Payare 
• Rachmaninoff: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3; Isle of the Dead The Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by/dirigé par Yannick Nézet-Séguin

CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR (SMALL ENSEMBLE)

• Mythes Andrew Armstrong & James Ehnes 
• Portrait: Alex Baranowski Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà 
• Portrait Cheng² Duo 
• Il Ponte di Leonardo Constantinople
• Basta parlare! Les Barocudas 

CLASSICAL COMPOSITION OF THE YEAR 

• Simulacra Amy Brandon
• Portrait of an Imaginary Sibling Dinuk Wijeratne
• …and the Higher Leaves of the Trees Seemed to Shimmer in the Last of the Sunlight’s Lingering Touch of Them… Emilie Cecilia LeBel
• Shāhīn-nāmeh, for Voice and Orchestra Iman Habibi 
• Don’t Throw Your Head in Your Hands Nicole Lizée 

INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR

• Néo-Romance Alexandra Stréliski 
• When we were that what wept for the sea Colin Stetson 
• Calibrating Friction Haralabos [Harry] Stafylakis 
• Fourth Album Markus Floats 
• Tesseract Meredith Bates 

VOCAL JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR 

• Songwriter Alex Bird & Ewen Farncombe 
• You’re Alike, You Two Caity Gyorgy & Mark Limacher 
• Little Bit a’ Love Denielle Bassels 
• Our Roots Run Deep Dominique Fils-Aimé
• Your Requests Laila Biali

JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR (SOLO)

• Day Moon Christine Jensen 
• Walls Made of Glass Gentiane
• Sonic Bouquet Jocelyn Gould 
• Twelve Noam Lemish
• The South Detroit Connection Russ Macklem

JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR (GROUP)

• Migrations Allison Au with the Migrations Ensemble 
• Septology-The Black Forest Session Canadian Jazz Collective 
• Cry Me A River Hilario Duran and His Latin Jazz Big Band 
• Recent History Mike Murley & Mark Eisenman Quartet
• Convergence Nick Maclean Quartet feat. Brownman Ali