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This is truly the grand-daddy of all awards shows. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences recognizes outstanding musical achievements. The Grammys always prove to be a night of spectacle and performance that truly can't be missed.

Date: February 22, 2003
City: New York City

This Year's Performers

The Nominees

Album Of The Year

Best Album Notes

Best Alternative Music Album

Best Bluegrass Album

Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package

Best Chamber Music Performance

  • Winner:
    Takacs Quartet     Beethoven: String Quartets (Razumovsky Op. 59, 1-3; Harp Op. 74)
  • Silke Avenhaus, piano; Maacha Deubner, soprano; Rosamunde Quartett & Valentin Silvestrov, piano Silvestrov: Leggiero, Pesante (Son. for Violoncello and Piano, Etc.)
  • Richard Egarr, harpsichord, Andrew Manze, violin Handel: Complete Violin Sonatas
  • Martha Argerich, piano & Mischa Maisky, violoncello Live in Japan (Chopin, Franck, Debussy)
  • Mark Dresser, double bass; Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; Todd Palmer, clarinet(s); St. Lawrence String Quartet & Ying Quartet Golijov: Yiddishbbuk

Best Choral Performance

  • Philippe Herreweghe, conductor (Sebastian Noack, bass; Mark Padmore, tenor; Sibylla Rubens, soprano; Bach: St. John Passon
  • Andreas Scholl, alto; Michael Volle, bass; Various Artists; Cho. du Collegium Vocale Gent; Orch. du Collegium Vocale Gent)

Best Classical Album

  • Winner:
    Robert Spano, conductor; Norman Mackenzie, chorus director; Thomas C. Moore, producer (Christine Goerke, soprano; Brett Polegato, baritone; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Cho.; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)&     Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony (Sym. No. 1)
  • Tonu Kaljuste, conductor; Manfred Eicher, producer (Swedish Radio Cho.; Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra) Part: Orient & Occident
  • Takacs Quartet; Andrew Keener Beethoven: String Quartets (Razumovksy Op. 59, 1-3; Harp Op. 74)
  • Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Andreas Neubronner, producer (San Francisco Symphony) Mahler: Symphony No. 6
  • Patrick Summers, conductor; Renee Fleming, soprano; Erik Smith, producer (Orchestra of St. Luke's) Bel Canto (Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Etc.)

Best Classical Contemporary Composition

  • Winner:
    John Tavener (Chanticleer: Joseph Jennings; Handel & Haydn Society of Boston)     Tavener: Lamentations and Praises
  • Osvaldo Golijov (St. Lawrence String Quartet) Golijov: Yiddishbbuk Inscriptions for String Quartet
  • Sofia Gubaidulina ((Genady Bezzubenkov, bass; Natalia Korneva, soprano; Viktor Lutsiuk, tenor; Fedor Gubaidulina: Johannes-Passion
  • John Adams (Esa-Pekka Salonen: Los Angeles Philharmonic) Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music
  • Arvo Part (Tonu Kaljuste; Swedish Symphony Orchestra Strings) Part: Orient & Occident
  • Mozhaev, baritone; Valery Gergiev; Cham. Cho. of St. Petersburg & Cho. of the Mariinsky Theater, St. Petersburg; Orch. of the Mariinsky Theater, St. Petersburg)

Best Classical Crossover Album

  • Winner:
    Andre Previn, conductor (London Symphony Orchestra)     Previn Conducts Korngold (Sea Hawk; Captain Blood, Etc.)
  • Allison Brewster Franzetti, piano & Carlos Franzetti, keyboards/conductor (NTstor Marconi, bandoneon; Buenos Aires Tango Orch.) Franzetti: Poeta De Arrabal - Tango Ballet (Plaza Oscura; Virgilio, Etc.)
  • Los Angeles Guitar Quartet LAGQ Latin (Fragile: Hasta Alicia Baila; La Trampa, Etc.)
  • Ian Bostridge, tenor (Sophie Daneman, soprano; Jeffrey Tate, piano) The Noel Coward Songbook (Parisian Pierrot; World Weary, Etc.)
  • Gary Burton, vibraphone & Makoto Ozone, piano Virtuosi (Ravel, Barber, Rachmaninoff, Etc.)
  • Kronos Quartet Nuevo (El Sinaloense; Mini Skirt; Perfidia, Etc.)

Best Classical Vocal Performance

  • Winner:
    Renee Fleming, soprano (Patrick Summers; Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Orch. of St. Luke's)     Bel Canto (Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Etc.)
  • Christine Schafer, soprano (Pierre Boulez; Ens. InterContemporain) Boulez: Pli Selon Pli
  • Vivica Genaux, mezzo-soprano (Rene Jacobs: Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin) Arias for Farinelli (Porpora, Hasse, Broschi, Etc.)
  • Susan Narucki, soprano (Speculum Musicae) Carter: Tempo E Tempi
  • Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano (Bengt Forsberg, piano I, Peter Jablonski, piano II & Nils-Erik Sparf, violin) Chaminade: Melodies - Mots D'Amour

Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media

Best Contemporary Blues Album

Best Contemporary Folk Album

Best Contemporary Jazz Album

Best Contemporary R&b Album

Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album

Best Country Album

Best Country Collaboration With Vocals

  • Winner:
    Willie Nelson with Lee Ann Womack     Mendocino County Line
  • Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Taj Mahal, Alison Krauss & Doc Watson Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Glory, Glory)
  • Mary Chapin Carpenter, Sheryl Crow & Emmylou Harris Flesh and Blood
  • Johnny Cash & Fiona Apple Bridge over Troubled Water
  • Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood Squeeze Me In

Best Country Instrumental Performance

Best Country Performance - Duo Or Group With Vocal

Best Country Song

Best Dance Recording

Best Duo Or Group With Vocal Performance - Pop

Best Engineered Album - Classical

  • Winner:
    Robert Spano & Norman Mackenzie     Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony (Sym. No. 1)
  • Mstislav Rostropovich Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11
  • Eiji Oue Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances; Vocalise, Etc.
  • Kenneth Schermerhorn Chadwick: Orchestral Works (Thalia; Melpomene; Euterpe)
  • Donald Runnicles & Norman Mackenzie Orff: Carmina Burana

Best Engineered Album - Non-classical

Best Female Country Vocal Performance

Best Female R&b Vocal Performance

Best Female Rap Solo Performance

Best Female Rock Vocal Performance

Best Female Vocal Performance - Pop

Best Hard Rock Performance

Best Historical Album

Best Instrumental Arrangement

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)

Best Instrumental Composition

Best Instrumental Soloist Performance - Without Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Murray Perahia, piano     Chopin: Etudes, Op. 10 & Op. 25
  • Earl Wild, piano Hahn: Le Rossignol Eperdu - Poemes Pour Piano (Complete)
  • Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano Kaleidoscope (Woods, Hofmann, Blumenfield, Etc.)
  • Leif Ove Andsnes, piano Grieg: Lyric Pieces (Op. 12, Book 1; Op. 38, Book 2, Etc.)
  • David Holzman, piano Wolpe: Compositions for Piano (1920-1952)

Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance - With Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Neville Marriner, conductor; Hilary Hahn, violin (Academy of St. Martin in the Fields)     Brahms/Stravinsky: Violin Concertos
  • Valery Gergiev, conductor; Yuri Bashmet, viola (Nikolay Kornev; St. Petersburg Cham. Cho.; Orch. of the Mariinsky Theatre) Kancheli: Styx/Gubaidulina: Viola Concerto
  • Sakari Oramo, conductor; Stephen Hough, piano (City of Birmingham Sym. Orch.) Saint-Saens: The Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra
  • Marin Alsop, conductor; James Buswell, violin (Royal Scottish National Orch.) Barber: Violin Concerto; Music for a Scene from Shelley, Etc.
  • Murray Perahia, piano/conductor (Academy of St. Martin in the Fields) Bach: Keyboard Concertos Nos. 3, 5, 6, 7

Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual Or Group

  • Winner:
    Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker & Roy Hargrove     Directions in Music
  • Wayne Shorter Footprints Live!
  • Michel Camilo Triangulo
  • McCoy Tyner Plays John Coltrane: Live at the Village Vanguard
  • Dave Douglas The Infinite

Best Jazz Instrumental Solo

Best Jazz Vocal Album

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

  • Winner:
    Dave Holland Big Band     What Goes Around
  • The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Can I Persuade You?
  • Slide Hampton and SWR Big Band Jazz Matinee
  • Sammy Nestico This is the Moment
  • Mingus Big Band Tonight at Noon... Three or Four Shades of Love

Best Latin Jazz Album

  • Winner:
    Caribbean Jazz Project     The Gathering
  • Omar Sosa Sentir
  • John Santos and the Machete Ensemble S.F. Bay
  • Jane Bunnett Alma De Santiago
  • Duduka Da Fonseca Samba Jazz Fantasia

Best Latin Pop Album

Best Latin Rock/alternative Album

Best Male Country Vocal Performance

Best Male R&b Vocal Performance

Best Male Rap Solo Performance

Best Male Rock Vocal Performance

Best Male Vocal Performance - Pop

Best Merengue Album

Best Metal Performance

Best Mexican/mexican-american Album

Best Musical Album For Children

Best Musical Show Album

  • Winner:
    Marc Shaiman; Scott Wittman     Hairspray
  • Hugh Fordin; Elaine Stritch Elaine Stritch at Liberty
  • Steven Epstein; Stephen Sondheim Into the Woods
  • Hugh Fordin; Frank Loesser Guys and Dolls
  • Jay David Saks; Jeanine Tesori; Dick Scanlan Thoroughly Modern Millie

Best Native American Music Album

Best New Age Album

Best New Artist

Best Opera Recording

  • Winner:
    Daniel Barenboim, conductor; Jane Eaglen, Thomas Hampson, Waltraud Meier, Rene Pape, Peter Seiffert; Christoph Classen, producer (Chor de Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin; Staatskapelle Berlin)     Wagner: Tannhauser
  • Marc Minkowski, conductor; Richard Croft, David Daniels, Lynne Dawson, Gidon Saks, Anne Sofie von Otter; Michel Gache, Arend Prohmann, producers (Cho. des Musiciens du Louvre; Les Musiciens du Louvre, Grenoble) Handel: Hercules
  • John Eliot Gardiner, conductor; Paul Groves & Anne Sofie von Otter; Martha de Francisco, producer (Monteverdi Cho.; English Baroque Soloists) Gluck: Alceste
  • Daniel Harding, conductor; Ian Bostridge & Joan Rodgers; John Fraser, producer (Jane Henschel, Julian Leang, Vivian Tierney, Caroline Wise; Mahler Chamber Orchestra) Britten: The Turn of the Screw
  • Charles Mackerras, conductor; Ian Bostridge, Barbara Frittoli, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Lisa Milne; John Fraser, producer (Edinburgh Festival Cho.; Scottish Chamber Orchestra) Mozart: Idomeneo

Best Orchestral Performance

  • Winner:
    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor (San Francisco Symphony)     Mahler: Symphony No. 6
  • Daniel Barenboim, conductor (Chicago Symphony Orchestra) Furtwangler: Symphony No. 2
  • Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor (Chamber Orchestra of Europe) Dvorak: Slavonic Dances
  • Mstislav Rostropovich, conductor (London Symphony Orchestra) Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11
  • Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra) Turina: Danzas Fantasticas: Sinfonia Sevillana, Etc. / Debussy: Iberia

Best Polka Album

  • Winner:
    Jimmy Sturr     Top of the World
  • Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones My Father's Shoes
  • Walter Ostanek & His Band Good Times Polkas & Waltzes
  • LynnMarie The Polka Record
  • Jerry Darlak and The Touch Let the Good Times Roll

Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals

  • Winner:
    Santana & Michelle Branch     The Game of Love
  • Sheryl Crow & Don Henley It's So Easy
  • Tony Bennett & kd lang What a Wonderful World
  • Natalie Cole & Diana Krall Better Than Anything
  • India.Arie & Stevie Wonder Christmas Song
  • Christina Aguilera Dirrty

Best Pop Instrumental Album

Best Pop Instrumental Performance

Best Pop Vocal Album

Best Pop/contemporary Gospel Album

Best R&b Album

Best R&b Performance - Duo Or Group With Vocal

Best R&b Song

  • Winner:
    Erykah Badu, Robert Ozuna, James Poyser, Raphael Saadiq, Glen Standridge     Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip Hop)
  • Will Baker, Andrew Ramsey, Shannon Sanders, India Simpson Good Man
  • Remy Shand Take A Message
  • Michael Archer, Bobby Ozuna, Raphael Saadiq, Glenn Standridge Be Here
  • Marsha Ambrosius, Darren Limitless Henson, Keith Keshon Pelzer, Natalie Stewart Floetic

Best Rap Album

Best Rap Performance - Duo Or Group

Best Rap/sung Collaboration

Best Recording Package

Best Reggae Album

Best Remixed Recording - Non-classical

Best Rock Album

Best Rock Gospel Album

Best Rock Instrumental Performance

Best Rock Performance - Duo Or Group With Vocal

Best Rock Song

Best Salsa Album

Best Score Soundtrack Album For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media

Best Short Form Music Video

Best Small Ensemble Performance With Or Without Conducto

  • Winner:
    Joseph Jennings, conductor; Chanticleer (Handel & Haydn Society of Boston)     Tavener: Lamentations and Praises
  • The Dufay Collective Cancionero: Music for the Spanish Court 1470-1520
  • Steven Richman, conductor; Harmonie Ensemble New York (Martin Bruns, baritone, Mark Peskanov, violin, Doris Stevenson, piano & Mikhail Svetlov, bass) Stravinsky: Histoire Du Soldat Suite
  • Martyn Brabbins, conductor; Claron McFadden, soprano; The Nash Ensemble & Julia Watson, narrator Birtwistle: The Woman and The Hare
  • Kremerata Baltica & Gidon Kremer, violin/conductor Enescu: Octet, Op. 7; Quintet, Op. 29

Best Southern, Country Or Bluegrass Gospel Album

Best Spoken Comedy Album

Best Spoken Word Album

Best Spoken Word Album For Children

  • Winner:
    Tom Chapin     There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
  • various artitsts Monsters Inc. DVD Read-Along
  • John Lithgow and various artists Ogden Nash's The Christmas That Almost Wasn't
  • Jerry Seinfeld Halloween
  • Jamie Lee Curtis The Jamie Lee Curtis Audio Collection

Best Tejano Album

Best Traditional Blues Album

Best Traditional Folk Album

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

Best Traditional R&b Vocal Performance

Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album

Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album

  • Winner:
    Bebo Valdes Trio with Israel Lopez Cachao & Carlos Patato Valdes     El Arte Del Sabor
  • Various Artists Cuban Masters Los Originales
  • Plena Libre Mi Ritmo
  • Orquesta Aragon En Route
  • Grand Afro Cuban Orchestra or Generoso Jimenez Gereroso Que Bueno Toca Usted

Best Urban/alternative Performance

Best World Music Album

Hall Of Fame

Lifetime Achievement Award

Producer Of The Year - Classical

  • Winner:
    Robert Woods
  • Manfred Eicher
  • James Mallinson
  • Robina G. Young
  • Andrew Cornall

Producer Of The Year - Non-classical

  • Winner:
    Arif Mardin
  • Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis
  • Rick Rubin
  • Nellee Hooper
  • Dr. Dre

Record Of The Year

Song Of The Year

Special Award

Trustees Award

  • Winner:
    New York Philharmonic
  • Winner:
    Alan Lomax
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