International Awards & Nominations

2012 . Bach Tafelmusik and Daniel Taylor CD (Analekta) nominated for a 2012 JUNO Award

2011 . Tafelmusik Chamber Choir Director Ivars Taurins nominated for a 2011 Gemini Award for Best Performance in a Performing Arts Programme for his portrayal of “Herr Handel” in Tafelmusik’s Sing- Along Messiah film by 90th Parallel Productions, which was telecast across Canada on Bravo! 2010 . Tafelmusik’s The Galileo Project: Music of the Spheres was nominated for The International Year of Astronomy 2009/Mani Bhaumik Prize for Excellence in Astronomy Education and Public Outreach

2009 . Tafelmusik receives 2009 Betty Webster Award from Orchestras Canada . The Minor Planet Institute of the International Astronomical Union names a minor planet (an asteroid) after Tafelmusik, in recognition of Tafelmusik’s contribution to the IYA2009 . Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8 CD (Analekta) nominated for a 2009 JUNO Award

2008 . Vivaldi L’estro armonico CD (Analekta/Sony BMG) nominated for a 2007 JUNO Award . Vivaldi L’estro armonico CD (Analekta/Sony BMG) selected as Editor’s Choice by Gramophone Magazine UK in February 2008 . Vivaldi L’estro armonico CD (Analekta/Sony BMG) designated BBC Music Magazine “Orchestra Recording of the Month” in January 2008

2007 . Music Director Jeanne Lamon receives Betty Webster Award from Orchestras Canada . Music Director Jeanne Lamon receives honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters degree from Mount Saint Vincent University. . Canadian Independent Music Award nomination for “Favourite Classical Artist/Group or Duo of the Year”.

2006 . Music Director Jeanne Lamon awarded the Roy Thomson Hall Award for Exceptional Achievement in Music . Awarded eighth and ninth JUNO Awards for Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6 (Analekta) and Baroque Adventure: The Quest for Arundo Donax (Analekta) . Canadian Independent Music Award nomination for Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6 (Analekta)

2005 . Awarded sixth and seventh JUNO Awards for Cleopatra with Isabel Bayrakdarian (CBC) and Jean-Philippe Rameau: Dardanus; Le Temple de la Gloire (CBC) . American Grammy Award nomination for Jean-Philippe Rameau: Dardanus; Le Temple de la Gloire (CBC)

. Canadian Independent Music Award nominations for Italian Oratorios with Matthew White and Cleopatra with Isabel Bayrakdarian (CBC) . Opus Magazine Record Award for Cleopatra with Isabel Bayrakdarian (CBC) . Chris Award, Columbus International Film & Video Festival, Four Seasons Mosaic

2004 . Jeanne Lamon receives the Toronto Musicians’ Association Musician of the Year Award.

2003 . Five Gemini nominations for international documentary Le Mozart Noir, including “Best Performance” . Only Canadian ensemble to win a Banff Rocky Award in the category of Performance Documentary for Le Mozart Noir . Diapason D’Or (France) for Bach Orchestral Suites CD . Rose D’Or nomination (Switzerland) for Le Mozart Noir television documentary . Fourth Lieutenant Governor’s Award for the Arts ($50,000) for excellence in developing private sector and community support . Indie Award nomination for “Classical Album of the Year” - Scarlatti Salve Regina / Vivaldi Stabat Mater with contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Analekta) . Fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth Juno Award nominations for: - Chants Sacrés et Profanes - Bach Orchestral Suites - Le Mozart Noir

2002 . Fourteenth JUNO Award nomination for A Baroque Feast . Third Lieutenant Governor’s Award for the Arts for excellence in developing private sector and community support

2001 . Eleventh, twelfth & thirteenth JUNO Award Nominations for: - Bach Peasant & Coffee Cantatas - Bach Motets - Telemann Orchestral Suites 2000 . Jeanne Lamon receives the Order of Canada . Tenth JUNO nomination for Handel’s Arias and Dances with soprano Karina Gauvin

1998 . Second Lieutenant Governor’s Award for the Arts ($25,000) for excellence in developing private sector and community support . Eleven Vivaldi Concertos awarded Best Vivaldi recording of 1997 in Italy by the Jury of the Premio Internazionale del Disco

1997 . Jeanne Lamon receives the M. Joan Chalmers’ National Award for Artistic Direction . Eighth JUNO nomination for Handel’s Water Music

1996 . Awarded the Echo Klassik Award for Best Orchestra of the Year, the German equivalent of the American Grammy Award . Jeanne Lamon awarded the prestigious Muriel Sherrin Award by the Toronto Arts Council for her international success in music . Lieutenant Governor’s Award for the Arts ($25,000) for excellence in developing private sector and community support . Cannes Classical Music Award for Haydn’s Paris Symphonies. This award is the world’s only classical music prize judged by eight international music magazines.

1995 . Awarded fourth JUNO Award for Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos

1994 . Awarded third JUNO Award for Handel’s Concerti Grossi . Honorary Doctorate awarded to Jeanne Lamon by York University

1993 . Awarded second JUNO Award for Handel’s Floridante . Nominated for Early Music Group of the Year by International Classical Music . Nominated for “Gramophone Record of the Year”

1992 . Three nominations for JUNO Awards for Sony Classical Releases: - Mozart German Dances - Mozart Overtures - Mozart Six Symphonies after Serenades

1991 . Tafelmusik Chamber Choir awarded the Healey Willan Prize for “for its consistently high level of artistic achievement and for its unique contribution to choral art in Canada.”

1990 . Awarded first JUNO Award for Boccherini’s Symphonies and Cello Concertos

1988 . “Ensemble of the Year” award by the Canadian Music Council