This year, he and the Chicagoans won in both the best classical album and best orchestral performance categories, performing works by Bela Bartok.
"They are all trained at our best classical schools, and know the full spectrum of Spain's historic dances.
His recording of Verdi's Requiem with the Chicago Symphony on its CSO Resound label won Grammy Awards for best classical album and best choral performance.
We were, and still are, the only chamber group to win the award for best classical recording, and we've done it twice.
The Winter's Tale earned him several awards, including the UK National Dance award for best classical choreography and a Benois de la Dance laureate.
And in the classical categories, the honors went to contemporary music, with all but one nominee ("Opera Arias" sung by Bryn Terfel) in the best classical album and best orchestral performance categories taken from the work of 20th-century composers.
A recording of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's 1930 opera "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny," with James Conlon conducting the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra, led the classical awards, winning best classical album and best opera recording.
The future of the classical music concert will be discovered by taking the best classical music and discovering the best ways to theatricalise it with a mixture of instinct and experiment in front of a live audience.
Leading the classical nominations, with citations in both the best classical album and best orchestral performance categories, was the conductor Sir Simon Rattle's return to Gustav Mahler's uncompleted "Symphony No. 10" with the Berlin Philharmonic.
But perhaps the biggest message to the industry came from the classical field: Sir Colin Davis won a coup for the London Symphony Orchestra when his recording of the Berlioz opera "Les Troyens" won awards for best classical album and best opera recording.
