Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year

| Malcolm Forsyth

| Atayoskewin

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• Alexina Louie, "Cadenzas"
• Oskar Morawetz, "Overture to a Fairy Tale"
• André Prévost, "Scherzo for String Orchestra"

|align="center" rowspan=2|"Juno Awards: the complete list of nominees". Vancouver Sun, September 15, 1987.

| Alexina Louie

| Songs of Paradise

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• Brian Cherney, River of Fire
• Jacques Hétu, Symphonie No 3
• R. Murray Schafer, Concerto for Harpsichord and Eight Wind Instruments
• Claude Vivier, Siddartha

|align="center"|"Juno candidates announced". Vancouver Sun, February 2, 1989.

| Oskar Morawetz

| Concerto for Harp and Chamber Orchestra

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• Pat Carrabré, Sonata No. 1
• Jean Coulthard, Introduction and Three Folk Songs
• Gary Kulesha, Third Chamber Concerto
• Sid Robinovitch, The Sons of Jacob

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| R. Murray Schafer

| String Quartet No.5 – 'Rosalind'

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• Glenn Buhr, Aviravirmayedhi
• Michael Colgrass, Chaconne
• Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté, Cappriccio-Concertante
• R. Murray Schafer, La Cri de Merlin

|align="center"|Mark Bastien, "Rap music makes presence felt in '91 Juno Awards nominations". Montreal Gazette, February 7, 1991.

| Michael Conway Baker

| Concerto for Piano & Chamber Orchestra

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• Patrick Cardy, Virelai
• Oskar Morawetz, Memorial to Martin Luther King
• R. Murray Schafer, Dream Rainbow Dream Thunder
• John Thrower, Improvisation on a Blue Theme

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| R. Murray Schafer

| Concerto for Flute and Orchestra

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• Jean Coulthard, "Music to St Cecilia for Organ and Strings"
• R. Murray Schafer, "The Darkly Splendid Earth: The Lonely Traveller"
• R. Murray Schafer, "Poulenc, Thesus"
• Claude Vivier, "Kopernikus"

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| Chan Ka Nin

| Among Friends

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• Milton Barnes, "Divertimento for Harp and Strings"
• Malcolm Forsyth, "Piano Concerto"
• Jean Piché, "Sleight of Hand"
• Peter Tiefenbach, "Three Poems"

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| Malcolm Forsyth

| Sketches from Natal

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• Jean Coulthard, "Sonata Rhapsody for Viola & Piano"
• Chris Harman, "Iridescence"
• Alexina Louie, "From the Eastern Gate"
• Healey Willan, "Missa Brevis No. 11 Sancti Johannis Baptistae"

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| Andrew P. MacDonald

| Concerto for Violin and Orchestra

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• Glenn Buhr, "Piano Concerto"
• Harry Freedman, "Touchings"
• Alexina Louie, "Music for Heaven and Earth"
• Chan Ka Nin, "I Think That I Shall Never See..."

|align="center"|"Complete list of 1996 Juno Award nominees". Montreal Gazette, February 3, 1996.

| Harry Somers

| Picasso Suite (1964)

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• Chan Ka Nin, "The Charmer"
• Malcolm Forsyth, "Quintette for Winds"
• Harry Somers, "Lyric for Orchestra (1960)"
• Claude Vivier, "Lonely Child"

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| Malcolm Forsyth

| Electra Rising

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• Alexina Louie, "Winter Music"
• Colin McPhee, "Symphony No. 2"
• R. Murray Schafer, "Adieu, Robert Schumann"
• R. Murray Schafer, "Gitanjali"

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| Colin McPhee

| Concerto for Wind Orchestra

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• Linda Bouchard, "Songs for an Acrobat"
• Malcolm Forsyth, "Tre Vie"
• Chris Harman, "Sonata for Viola and Piano"
• John Weinzweig, "Wine of Peace: Two Songs for Soprano and Orchestra"

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| Alexina Louie

| Shattered Night, Shivering Stars

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• Glenn Buhr, String Quartet No. 1
• Glenn Buhr, Winter Poems
• Gary Kulesha, The Book of Mirrors
• Alexina Louie, Arc

|align="center"|"Juno nominees". Toronto Star, February 3, 2000.

| Oskar Morawetz

| From the Diary of Anne Frank

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• Paul M. Douglas, La Cévenole
• Marjan Mozetich, Affairs of the Heart
• R. Murray Schafer, Once on a Windy Night
• Harry Somers, The Third Piano Concerto

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| Chan Ka Nin

| Par-çi, par-la

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• Peter Paul Koprowski, "Concerto for Viola and Orchestra"
• Sid Robinovitch, "Suite for Klezmer Band and Orchestra"
• Harry Somers, "Serinette"
• Owen Underhill, "Love Songs"

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| Bramwell Tovey

| Requiem for a Charred Skull

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• John Estacio, "Test Run"
• Christos Hatzis, "Orbiting Garden"
• Alexina Louie, "Music for a Thousand Autumns"
• Heather Schmidt, "Concerto for Cello"

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| R. Murray Schafer

| String Quartet No. 8

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• Norma Beecroft, "Amplified String Quartet with Tape"
• Christos Hatzis, "Everlasting Light"
• Jacques Hétu, "Piano Concerto No. 2"
• R. Murray Schafer, "Credo"

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| István Anhalt

| The Tents of Abraham

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• John Estacio, "A Farmer's Symphony"
• José Evangelista, "Neuvas monodias espanolas"
• Jeffrey Ryan, "Pangaea"
• Robert Turner, "Third Symphony"

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| Christos Hatzis

| String Quartet No. 1 (The Awakening)

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• Brian Cherney, "Illuminations"
• Chan Ka Nin, "Our Finest Hour"
• Peter Togni, "Illuminations"
• Robert Turner, "Symphony for Strings"

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| Denis Gougeon

| Clere Vénus

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• Stephen Chatman, "Varley Suite for Solo Violin"
• Neil Currie, "Tumbling Strain"
• Harry Somers, "A Midwinter Night's Dream",
• Harry Somers, "Of Memory and Desire"

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| Christos Hatzis

| Constantinople (Hatzis)

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• Brian Current, "This Isn’t Silence"
• Oskar Morawetz, "A Child's Cry from Izieu"
• Jeffrey Ryan, "Quantum Mechanics"
• R. Murray Schafer, "Letters from Mignon"

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| John Burge

| Flanders Fields Reflections

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• T. Patrick Carrabré, "From the Dark Reaches"
• Timothy Corlis, "Notes Towards a Poem That Can Never Be Written"
• Sid Robinovitch, "Song of Songs"
• Bramwell Tovey, "Manhattan Music"

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| Marjan Mozetich

| Lament in the Trampled Garden

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• Stephen Chatman, "Earth Songs"
• Leonard Enns, "Nocturne"
• Marjan Mozetich, "Angels in Flight"
• Rob Teehan, "Dreams of Flying"

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| R. Murray Schafer

| Duo for Violin and Piano

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• Larysa Kuzmenko, "Piano Concerto, 3"
• Jocelyn Morlock, "Exaudi"
• Clark Ross, "Last Dance"
• Peter Togni, "Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae"

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| Derek Charke

| Sepia Fragments

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• Jacques Hétu, "String Quartet No. 2"
• Jeffrey Ryan, "Fugitive Colours"
• Heather Schmidt, "Piano Concerto No. 2"
• Ann Southam, "Glass Houses #5"

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| Vivian Fung

| Violin Concerto

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• Denis Gougeon, "Mutation"
• Alexina Louie, "Echoes of Time"
• R. Murray Schafer, "Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello"
• Howard Shore, The Lord of the Rings Symphony: Six Movements for Orchestra & Chorus

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| Allan Gordon Bell

| Field Notes

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• Tim Brady, "Atacama: Symphonie No. 3"
• Stephen Chatman, "Magnificat"
• James O'Callaghan, "Isomorphia for Orchestra and Electronics"
• R. Murray Schafer, "Quatuors à cordes No. 12"

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| Brian Current

| Airline Icarus

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• John Estacio, "Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra"
• Gordon Fitzell, "Magister Ludi"
• Jacques Hétu, "Sextet, OP. 71"
• Alice Ping Yee Ho, "Glistening Pianos"

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| Dinuk Wijeratne

| Two Pop Songs on Antique Poems

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• John Burge, "Piano Quartet"
• Nicole Lizée, "Bookburners"
• Michael Oesterle, "Centennials"
• Jordan Pal, "The Afar"

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| Jordan Nobles

| Immersion

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• Kati Agócs, "The Debrecen Passion"
• Christos Hatzis, "Going Home Star – Truth and Reconciliation"
• Ana Sokolović, "And I need a room to receive five thousand people with raised glasses... or... what a glorious day, the birds are singing "halleluia""
• Andrew Staniland, "Dark Star Requiem"

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| Jocelyn Morlock

| My Name is Amanda Todd

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• Alice Ping Yee Ho, "Cœur à Cœur"
• Vincent Ho, "The Shaman"
• James Rolfe, "Breathe"
• Andrew Staniland, "Phi, Caelestis"

|align="center"|{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Charlie |date=March 24, 2018|title=Diana Krall, Michael Bublé, Anciients, Jocelyn Morlock, and Ivan Decker put B.C. in Juno Awards winners circle|url=https://www.straight.com/music/1049146/diana-krall-michael-buble-anciients-jocelyn-morlock-and-ivan-decker-put-bc-juno-awards|work=The Georgia Straight}}

| Ana Sokolović

| Golden Slumbers Kiss Your Eyes

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• Vincent Ho, "Arctic Symphony"
• Nicole Lizée, "Katana of Choice"
• Cassandra Miller, "About Bach"
• Bekah Simms, "Granitic"

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| Ana Sokolović

| Evta

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• Rose Bolton, "The Coming of Sobs"
• Vincent Ho, "Kickin' It 2.0"
• Jared Miller, "Under Sea, Above Sky"
• Bekah Simms, "Everything Is...Distorted"

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| Samy Moussa

| Violin Concerto 'Adrano'

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• Zosha DiCarti, "Tachitipo"
• Anna Höstman, "Harbour"
• Alexina Louie, "Take the Dog Sled"
• Ana Sokolović, "Commedia dell'arte"

|align="center"|Holly Gordon and Andrea Warner, [https://www.cbc.ca/music/junos/news/here-are-the-2021-juno-award-winners-1.6036001 "Here are the 2021 Juno Award winners"]. CBC Music, June 4, 2021.

| Keiko Devaux

| Arras

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• Kati Agócs, "Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra"
• Dorothy Chang, "Flight"
• Jaap Nico Hamburger, "Chamber Symphony No. 2: Children’s War Diaries"
• Saman Shahi, "Breathing in the Shadows"

|align="center"|Jackson Weaver, [https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/2022-juno-award-nominees-1.6367948 "Charlotte Cardin, The Weeknd, Justin Bieber lead 2022 Juno Award nominees"]. CBC News, March 1, 2022.

| Bekah Simms

| "Bestiary I & II"

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• Anthony Tan, "An Overall Augmented Sense of Well-Being"
• Keyan Emami, "The Black Fish"
• Nicole Lizée, "Prayers for Ruins"
• Vincent Ho, "Supervillain Études"

|align="center"| Jenna Benchetrit and Arti Patel, [https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/junos-2023-opening-night-winners-list-1.6776262 "The Weeknd picks up 4 wins on Junos 2023 opening night"]. CBC News, March 11, 2023.

| Nicole Lizée

| "Don't Throw Your Head in Your Hands"

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• Amy Brandon, "Simulacra"
• Iman Habibi, "Shāhīn-nāmeh, for Voice and Orchestra"
• Emilie Cecilia LeBel, "…and the Higher Leaves of the Trees Seemed to Shimmer in the Last of the Sunlight’s Lingering Touch of Them…"
• Dinuk Wijeratne, "Portrait of an Imaginary Sibling"

|align="center"| [https://www.cbc.ca/music/junos/juno-awards-2024-full-list-winners-1.7149545 "Junos 2024: full list of winners"]. CBC Music, March 23, 2024.

| Deantha Edmunds

| "Angmalukisaa"

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• Keiko Devaux, "L'écoute du perdu : III. « Voix jetées »"
• Gabriel Dharmoo, "The Fog in Our Poise"
• Vivian Fung, "String Quartet No. 4: Insects and Machines"
• Linda Catlin Smith, "Dark Flower"

|align="center"| [https://www.cbc.ca/music/junos/juno-awards-2025-full-list-winners-1.7497072 "Junos 2025: full list of winners"]. CBC Music, March 30, 2025.