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Your support makes all the difference.AS the date approaches for the International Classical Music Awards - 8 January in Birmingham, 10 January on BBC 2 - we publish nominations for 14 of the 15 awards. The Personality of the Year, chosen by readers of the Independent and the BBC Music Magazine, will be announced on the night.
Singer of the Year - male
Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo, Thomas Hampson, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Luciano Pavarotti
Singer of the Year - female
Cecilia Bartoli, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Waltraud Meier, Cheryl Studer
Instrumentalist of the Year
Yuri Bashmet, Yo-Yo Ma, Andras Schiff, Mitsuko Uchida
Recording of the Year
Der Rosenkavalier (Haitink / EMI), Die Frau ohne Schatten (Solti / Decca), Beethoven Symphonies (Harnoncourt / Teldec), Janacek Glagolitic Mass (Tilson Thomas / Sony)
Composition of the Year
Corigliano The Ghosts of Versailles, Gorecki Quasi una fantasia, Reimann Das Schloss, Takemitsu Fantasma / Cantos, Tippett Quartet No 5
Conductor of the Year
Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Nikolaus Harnoncourt,
Sir Georg Solti
Orchestra of the Year
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, St Petersburg Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic
Early Music Group of the Year
Freiburger Barockorchester, Sequentia, Tafelmusik, Les Arts Florissants
Opera Production of the Year
Pelleas et Melisande (WNO), The Ghosts of Versailles (New York Met), Wozzeck (Paris Chatelet), Mahagonny (Stuttgart)
Chamber Group of the Year
Alban Berg Quartet, Carmina Quartet, Emerson String Quartet, Trio Fontenay
Newcomer of the Year
Carlo Rizzi, Bryn Terfel, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Maxim Vengerov
Single Event of the Year
The Ghosts of Versailles (New York Met), On the Town (London Symphony Orchestra / Barbican), Tosca from Rome, St Francis of Assisi (Salzburg)
Festival or Concert Series of the Year
BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, Salzburg Festival, 20th Century Season at Le Chatelet, Wien Modern
Chorus of the Year
Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Kirov Opera Chorus, Monteverdi Choir, Stockholm
Radio Choir
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