| Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance | |
| Awarded For: | quality chamber music performances |
| Presenter: | National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences |
| Country: | United States |
| Year: | 1959 |
| Year2: | 2011 |
| Website: | grammy.com |
The Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance was awarded from 1959 to 2011. The award was discontinued in 2012 in a major overhaul of Grammy categories; since 2012, recordings in this category have fallen under the Best Small Ensemble Performance category. The award has had several minor name changes:
Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.
| Year | Winner(s) | Title | Nominees | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Hollywood String Quartet | Beethoven | [1] | ||
| 1960 | Arthur Rubinstein | Beethoven | [2] | ||
| 1961 | Laurindo Almeida | Conversations with the Guitar | [3] | ||
| 1962 | Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky, William Primrose | Beethoven Serenade, Op. 8; Kodály: Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7 | [4] | ||
| 1963 | Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky, William Primrose | The Heifetz-Piatgorsky Concerts with Primrose, Pennario and Guests | [5] | ||
| 1964 | Julian Bream Consort | An Evening of Elizabethan Music | [6] | ||
| 1965 | Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky, Jacob Lateiner | Beethoven Trio No. 1 in E Flat, Op. 1, No. 1 | [7] | ||
| Noah Greenberg conducting New York Pro Musica | It Was a Lover and His Lass (Morley, Byrd and Others) | ||||
| 1966 | Juilliard String Quartet | Bartók The 6 String Quartets | [8] | ||
| 1967 | Boston Symphony Chamber Players | Boston Symphony Chamber Players - Works of Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, Fine, Copland, Carter, Piston | [9] | ||
| 1968 | Ravi Shankar, Yehudi Menuhin | West Meets East | [10] | ||
| 1969 | Vittorio Negri (conductor), E Power Biggs with the Edward Tarr Brass Ensemble & Gabrieli Consort | Glory of Gabrieli Vol. II - Canzonas for Brass, Winds, Strings and Organs | [11] | ||
| 1970 | Chicago Brass Ensemble, Cleveland Brass Ensemble, and Philadelphia Brass Ensemble | Gabrieli Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli (Canzoni for Brass Choirs) | [12] | ||
| 1971 | Eugene Istomin, Isaac Stern, Leonard Rose | Beethoven The Complete Piano Trios | [13] | ||
| 1972 | Juilliard String Quartet | Debussy Quartet in G Minor; Ravel: Quartet in F Major | [14] | ||
| 1973 | Julian Bream, John Williams | Julian and John (selections by Lawes, Carulli, Albéniz, Granados) | [15] | ||
| 1974 | Gunther Schuller (conductor), New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble | Joplin | [16] | ||
| 1975 | Pierre Fournier, Arthur Rubinstein & Henryk Szeryng | Brahms Trios (Complete)/Schumann: Trio No. 1 in D Minor | |||
| 1976 | Arthur Rubinstein, Henryk Szeryng, Pierre Fournier | Schubert Trios No. 1 in B Flat Major, Op. 99 and No. 2 in E Flat Major, Op. 100 (Piano Trios) | [17] | ||
| 1977 | David Munrow (conductor), Early Music Consort of London | The Art of Courtly Love | [18] | ||
| 1978 | Juilliard String Quartet | Schoenberg | [19] | ||
| 1979 | Itzhak Perlman, Vladimir Ashkenazy | Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Complete) | [20] | ||
| 1980 | Dennis Russell Davies (conductor) and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra | Copland | [21] | ||
| 1981 | Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman | Music for 2 Violins (Moszkowski: Suite for 2 Violins; Shostakovich: Duets; Prokofiev: Sonata for 2 Violins) | [22] | ||
| 1982 | Itzhak Perlman, Lynn Harrell and Vladimir Ashkenazy | Tchaikovsky | [23] | ||
| 1983 | Richard Stoltzman, Richard Goode | Brahms The Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120 | [24] | ||
| 1984 | Mstislav Rostropovich, Rudolf Serkin | Brahms Sonata for Cello and Piano in E Minor, Op. 38, and Sonata in F Major, Op. 99 | [25] | ||
| 1985 | Juilliard String Quartet | Beethoven The Late String Quartets | [26] | ||
| 1986 | Emmanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma | Brahms Cello and Piano Sonatas in E Major and F Major | [27] | ||
| 1987 | Emmanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma | Beethoven Cello and Piano Sonata No. 4 in C and Variations | [28] | ||
| 1988 | Itzhak Perlman, Lynn Harrell, Vladimir Ashkenazy | Beethoven The Complete Piano Trios | [29] | ||
| 1989 | Murray Perahia, Georg Solti, David Corkhill, Evelyn Glennie | Bartók Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion; Brahms: Variation on a Theme by Joseph Haydn for 2 Piano | [30] | ||
| 1990 | Emerson String Quartet | Bartók 6 String Quartets | [31] | ||
| 1991 | Daniel Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman | Brahms The Three Violin Sonatas | [32] | ||
| 1992 | Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, Jaime Laredo, Yo-Yo Ma | Johannes Brahms Piano Quartets | [33] | ||
| 1993 | Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma | Brahms Sonatas for Cello and Piano | [34] | ||
| 1994 | Emerson String Quartet | Ives String Quartets | [35] | ||
| 1995 | Daniel Barenboim, Dale Clevenger, Larry Combs, Daniele Damiano, Hansjorg Schellenberger, Berlin Philharmonic | Beethoven/Mozart: Quintets (Chicago-Berlin) | [36] | ||
| 1996 | Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma, Richard Stoltzman | Brahms/Beethoven/Mozart: Clarinet Trios | [37] | ||
| 1997 | Cleveland Quartet | Corigliano String Quartet | [38] | ||
| 1998 | Emerson Quartet | Beethoven The String Quartets | [39] | ||
| 1999 | André Previn, Gil Shaham | American Scenes (Works of Copland, Previn, Barber, Gershwin) | [40] | ||
| 2000 | Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis | Beethoven The Violin Sonatas (Nos. 1-3, Op. 12; Nos. 1-3, Op. 30; "Spring" Sonata, etc.) | [41] | ||
| 2001 | Emerson String Quartet | Shostakovich The String Quartets | [42] | ||
| 2002 | The Angeles String Quartet | Haydn The Complete String Quartets | [43] | ||
| 2003 | Takács Quartet | Beethoven String Quartets ("Razumovsky", Op. 59, 1-3; "Harp", Op. 74) | [44] | ||
| 2004 | Kronos Quartet, Dawn Upshaw | Berg | [45] | ||
| 2005 | Martha Argerich, Mikhail Pletnev | Prokofiev (Arr. Pletnev): Cinderella - Suite for Two Pianos; Ravel: Ma Mère L'Oye | [46] | ||
| 2006 | Emerson String Quartet | Mendelssohn The Complete String Quartets | [47] | ||
| 2007 | Emerson String Quartet | Intimate Voices | [48] | ||
| 2008 | Eighth Blackbird | Strange Imaginary Animals | [49] | ||
| Pacifica Quartet | Elliott Carter: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 5 | [50] | |||
| 2010 | Emerson Quartet | Intimate Letters | [51] | ||
| 2011 | Parker Quartet | Ligeti String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 | [52] |