Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year – Solo

The Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year - Solo is an annual Canadian music award, presented by the Juno Awards to honour classical music recordings by solo vocal or instrumental artists.

It was presented for the first time at the Juno Awards of 2022, as a split of the former category for Classical Album of the Year – Solo or Chamber Ensemble into separate awards for soloists and small ensembles. The category for Classical Album of the Year – Vocal or Choral Performance was also concurrently discontinued.

Winners and nominees

Year	Winner	Album	Nominees	Ref.
2022	Emily D'Angelo	enargeia	Joshua Hopkins, Songs for Murdered Sisters Catherine Lee, Remote Together Jan Lisiecki, Chopin: Complete Nocturnes Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Introspection: Solo Piano Sessions	[1]
2023	Philip Chiu	Fables	Isabel Bayrakdarian, La Zingarella: Through Romany Songland James Ehnes, Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin David Jalbert, Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Bruce Liu, Winner of the 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition Warsaw 2021	[2]
2024	James Ehnes	Nielsen: Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 4	Barbara Hannigan, Infinite Voyage Matt Haimovitz, De Hartmann: Cello Concerto Marc-André Hamelin, Fauré: Nocturnes & Barcarolles Suzie LeBlanc, mouvance	[3]

References

1. Holly Gordon, "Here are all the 2022 Juno Award winners". CBC Music, May 14, 2022.
2. Jenna Benchetrit and Arti Patel, "The Weeknd picks up 4 wins on Junos 2023 opening night". CBC News, March 11, 2023.
3. "Junos 2024: full list of winners". CBC Music, March 23, 2024.