Awards & Winners

Robert Shaw

Date of Birth 30-April-1916
Place of Birth Red Bluff
(Tehama County, California, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Shaw, Robert
Profession Conductor
Robert Shaw was an American conductor most famous for his work with his namesake Chorale, with the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Shaw received 14 Grammy awards, four ASCAP awards for service to contemporary music, the first Guggenheim Fellowship ever awarded to a conductor, the Alice M. Ditson Conductor's Award for Service to American Music; the George Peabody Medal for outstanding contributions to music in America, the Gold Baton Award of the American Symphony Orchestra League for "distinguished service to music and the arts," the American National Medal of Arts, France's Officier des Arts et des Lettres, England's Gramophone Award, and was a 1991 recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors.

Awards by Robert Shaw

Check all the awards nominated and won by Robert Shaw.

1998


Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance
Honored for : Barber, Bartok, Vaughan Williams (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus feat. conductor: Robert Shaw)
Grammy Award for Best Classical Album
Honored for : Barber, Bartok, Vaughan Williams (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus feat. conductor: Robert Shaw)

Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance Barber, Bartok, Vaughan Williams (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus feat. conductor: Robert Shaw)
Grammy Award for Best Classical Album Barber, Bartok, Vaughan Williams (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus feat. conductor: Robert Shaw)

1997


Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance
Honored for : Harmonium / The Bells (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus)
(Conductor)

Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance Harmonium / The Bells (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus)

1990


Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance
Honored for : Walton: Belshazzar's Feast/Bernstein: Chichester Psalms; Missa Brevis
(Conductor)

Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance Walton: Belshazzar's Feast/Bernstein: Chichester Psalms; Missa Brevis

1989


Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance
Honored for : Britten: War Requiem
(Conductor)

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance Britten: War Requiem

1988


Grammy Award for Best Classical Album
Honored for : Requiem & Operatic Choruses (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus feat. conductor Robert Shaw)
(Producer, Artist)
Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance
Honored for : Requiem & Operatic Choruses (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus feat. conductor Robert Shaw)
(Conductor)
Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance
Honored for : Rorem: String Symphony; Sunday Morning; Eagles
(Conductors, Producer)

Nominations 1988 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Classical Album Requiem & Operatic Choruses (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus feat. conductor Robert Shaw)
Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance Rorem: String Symphony; Sunday Morning; Eagles
Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance Requiem & Operatic Choruses (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus feat. conductor Robert Shaw)

1987


Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance
Honored for : When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd
(Conductor)

1985


Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance
Honored for : Berlioz: Requiem / Boito: Prologue to Mefistofele / Verdi: Te Deum (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus feat. conductor: Robert Shaw, tenor: John Aler, bass: John Cheek)
Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance
Honored for : Berlioz: Les nuits d'été / Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor: Robert Shaw, soprano: Elly Ameling)
Grammy Award for Best Classical Album
Honored for : Berlioz: Requiem / Boito: Prologue to Mefistofele / Verdi: Te Deum (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus feat. conductor: Robert Shaw, tenor: John Aler, bass: John Cheek)

Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance Berlioz: Requiem / Boito: Prologue to Mefistofele / Verdi: Te Deum (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus feat. conductor: Robert Shaw, tenor: John Aler, bass: John Cheek)
Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance Berlioz: Les nuits d'été / Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor: Robert Shaw, soprano: Elly Ameling)
Grammy Award for Best Classical Album Berlioz: Requiem / Boito: Prologue to Mefistofele / Verdi: Te Deum (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus feat. conductor: Robert Shaw, tenor: John Aler, bass: John Cheek)

1966


Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance
Honored for : Handel: Messiah

Nominations 1966 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance Handel: Messiah

1965


Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance
Honored for : Stravinsky: Symphony Of Psalms/Poulenc: Gloria
(Artist)

Nominations 1965 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance Stravinsky: Symphony Of Psalms/Poulenc: Gloria

1964


Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance
Honored for : Britten Choral Works II: A Ceremony of Carols

Nominations 1964 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance

1961


Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance
Honored for : Bach: B Minor Mass
(Choir Director)

Nominations 1961 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance Bach: B Minor Mass