India Gailey WON Classical Composer of the Year at the 2025 East Coast Music Awards!

Nova Pon has been nominated for Composer of the Year at the 2025 Western Canadian Music Awards!

Farshid Samandari WON Classical Composer of the Year at the 2024 Western Canadian Music Awards!

…and the Higher Leaves of the Trees Seemed to Shimmer in the Last of the Sunlight’s Lingering Touch of Them… was nominated for a 2024 JUNO Award for Classical Composition of the Year!

Emilie Cecilia LeBel was nominated for Composer of the Year at the 2024 Western Canadian Music Awards!

20C Remix by Standing Wave was nominated for a 2022 JUNO Award for Classical Album of the Year (Small Ensemble)!

Standing Wave WON for Classical Ensemble of the Year at the 2022 Western Canadian Music Awards!

The Aventa Ensemble was nominated for Classical Ensemble of the Year at the 2022 Western Canadian Music Awards.

Flight by Dorothy Chang was nominated for a 2022 JUNO Award for Classical Composition of the Year!

Composer Dorothy Chang WON Classical Composer of the Year at the 2022 Western Canadian Music Awards!

Composer Jordan Nobles was nominated for Classical Composer of the Year at the 2022 Western Canadian Music Awards.

Mark Takeshi McGregor was nominated for Classical Artist of the Year at the 2022 Western Canadian Music Awards.

Composer Stephen Chatman was nominated for Classical Composer of the Year at the 2022 Western Canadian Music Awards.

Remote Together by Catherine Lee was nominated for a 2022 JUNO Award for Classical Album of the Year (Solo Artist).

P.E.P Volume 3 by the Piano and Erhu Project WON for Classical Ensemble of the Year at the 2021 Western Canadian Music Awards!

Harbour by Anna Höstman was nominated for a 2021 JUNO Award for Classical Composition of the Year!

Composer Jeffrey Ryan was nominated for Classical Composer of the Year at the 2021 Western Canadian Music Awards.

Angela Schwarzkopf WON for Classical Album of the Year (Solo or Chamber) at the 2020 JUNO Awards!

Mark Takeshi McGregor WON Classical Artist of the Year at the 2020 Western Canadian Music Awards!

Stephen Chatman WON Composer of the Year at the 2020 Western Canadian Music Awards for his composition Concertino for Horn and String Orchestra!

Composer Farshid Samandari was nominated for Classical Composer of the Year at the 2019 Western Canadian Music Awards.

Katana of Choice, by percussionist Ben Reimer, features the title track by Nicole Lizée which was nominated for Classical Composition of the Year at 2019 JUNO Awards.

Surface Tension by the Ethos Collective and composer Jordan Nobles was nominated at the 2018 Western Canadian Music Awards.

Concentric Rings, the debut CD by the Victoria Guitar Trio received a nomination for Classical Ensemble of the Year at the 2018 Western Canadian Music Awards.

Immersion by Jordan Nobles received the award for Classical Composition of the Year at the 2017 Western Canadian Music Awards and also WON the 2017 JUNO Award for Classical Composition of the Year!

Standing Wave’s album New Wave has WON Classical Ensemble of the Year at the 2017 Western Canadian Music Awards! 

Also, two pieces on their album received nominations for Classical Composition of the Year (Marcus Goddard‘s Raven Tales and Edward Top’s Pots ‘n Pans Falling)

Ana Sokolović’s piece …and I need a room to receive five thousand people…, was nominated for Classical Composition of the Year at the 2017 JUNO Awards.

musica intima and Turning Point Ensemble were nominated for Classical Ensemble of the Year by the 2016 Western Canadian Music Awards.

Arkora’s debut album was nominated for Classical Composition of the Year for Benton Roark’s Songs from the Rainshadow’s Edge by the 2016 Western Canadian Music Awards.

Paolo Bortolussi’s album Israfel was nominated for Classical Artist of the Year AND Classical Composition of the Year (for John Oliver’s Birds of Paradise Lost) by the 2016 Western Canadian Music Awards.

Mark McGregor’s album Sins and Fantasies was nominated for Classical Recording of the Year at the 2015 Western Canadian Music Awards.

Nominated for Classical Composition of the Year (for Dorothy Chang‘s Beyond Shadows) by the 2015 Western Canadian Music Awards.

SEA and SKY was nominated for Classical Recording of the Year and Classical Composition of the Year (for Owen Underhill‘s Duotone) by the 2015 Western Canadian Music Awards.

PEP’s second album was nominated for Classical Recording of the Year and Classical Composition of the Year (for Keith Hamel’s Homage to Liu Wenjin) by the 2015 Western Canadian Music Awards.

Corey Hamm’s recording of Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated! WON Classical Recording of the Year at the 2014 Western Canadian Music Awards!

Standing Wave’s album Liquid States was nominated for Classical Recording of the Year and Classical Composition of the Year (for Jeffrey Ryan‘s Burn) by the 2013 Western Canadian Music Awards.

Toronto ensemble CONTACT’s debut album Undercurrents contains the track Simulacrum by Jordan Nobles which was nominated for Classical Composition of the Year at the 2012 Western Canadian Music Awards.

Rachel Kiyo-Iwaasa’s debut album Cosmophony was nominated for Classical Recording of the Year by the 2011 Western Canadian Music Awards.

Mark Takeshi McGregor’s album Different Stones was nominated for Classical Recording of the Year at the 2010 Western Canadian Music Awards.