Awards

In our over four decades of celebrating beauty through the music of the past, Tafelmusik has received extensive musical and institutional awards.

2019

  • Elisa Citterio wins Leonardo Award for Arts, Science, & Culture from the Italian Chamber of Commerce 2019 ICCO Air Canada Business Excellence Awards

2017

  • Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (Tafelmusik Media) nominated for a 2017 JUNO Award

2016

  • Tafelmusik nominated for 2016 Innovation Award from Classical:NEXT

2015

  • Tafelmusik receives the 2015 NAC Award for Distinguished Contribution to Touring
  • Tafelmusik receives the 2015 Ontario Arts Council’s Vida Peene Orchestra Award
  • Tafelmusik receives the 2015 Ecclesiastical Insurance Cornerstone Award for Building Heritage from the National Trust for Canada for the adaptive use and rehabilitation of Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre

2014

  • Tafelmusik receives the 2014 NAC Award for Distinguished Contribution to Touring
  • Jeanne Lamon is appointed to The Order of Ontario
  • Jeanne Lamon receives Honorary Doctorate from the University of Toronto
  • Jeanne Lamon receives Early Music America’s Howard Mayer Brown Award for Lifetime Achievement
  • House of Dreams (Tafelmusik Media) nominated for a 2014 JUNO Award

2013

  • Tafelmusik wins Touring Artist of the Year 2012/2013 from the Canadian Arts Presenting Association
  • The Galileo Project (Tafelmusik Media) nominated for a 2013 JUNO Award
  • Handel’s Messiah (Tafelmusik Media) nominated for a 2013 JUNO Award
  • Jeanne Lamon receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Toronto Musicians’ Association
  • Alison Mackay wins 2013 Betty Webster Award from Orchestras Canada

2012

  • Bach Tafelmusik and Daniel Taylor CD (Analekta) nominated for a 2012 JUNO Award
  • Tafelmusik and Musica Viva win an Australian Helpmann Award for their presentation of The Galileo Project during their Australian 2012 Tour
  • Bach Tafelmusik and Daniel Taylor CD and Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with OSM (Analekta) nominated for ADISQ awards
  • Managing Director Tricia Baldwin wins the Canada Council for the Arts’ John Hobday Award for Arts Management and the Harvard Business Club of Toronto scholarship.

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 CDRose 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)
  • 15th 16th, and 17th Juno Award nominations for
    • Chants Sacrés et Profanes
    • Bach Orchestral Suites
    • Le Mozart Noir

2002

  • 14th 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

  • 11th, 12th, and 13th 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 Concertosawarded Best Vivaldi recording of 1997 in Italy by the Jury of the Premio Internazionale del Disco
  • Awarded fifth JUNO Award for Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks
  • Music Director Jeanne Lamon receives the Molson Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts

1997

  • Jeanne Lamonreceives 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