The Grammy Awards were announced today, and there are a few familiar names this year. The biggest news: Elaine Martone has won Producer of the Year, Classical for a host of recordings, including: Joy! (John Morris Russell & Cincinnati Pops). It is her sixth Grammy Award in her stunning career. Congratulations to Elaine, who produces the Cincinnati Symphony and Pops recordings. She is truly world-class. (Martone is married to Robert Woods, founder of Telarc Records, which was famous for the 100 or so Pops albums they recorded during the Erich Kunzel years … )

The other supporting works on her list are:

• Bartók: String Quartet No.3; Suite From ‘The Miraculous Mandarin’ (Franz Welser-Möst & The Cleveland Orchestra)
• The Book of Spells (Merian Ensemble)
• Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 (Franz Welser-Möst & The Cleveland Orchestra)
• Divine Mischief (Julian Bliss, J. Eric Wilson & Baylor University Wind Ensemble)
• Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 (Franz Welser-Möst & The Cleveland Orchestra)
• Schubert: The Complete Impromptus (Gerardo Teissonnière)
• Stranger at Home (Shachar Israel)
• Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 (Franz Welser-Möst & The Cleveland Orchestra).

Here are some other classical music awards, which also have a few Cincinnati connections:

Best engineered, Classical goes to Bruckner: Symphony No. 7; Bates: Resurrexit. Mark Donahue & John Newton, engineers; Mark Donahue, mastering engineer (Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra).

Best Orchestral Performance:“Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina”
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic).

Best Opera Recording:“Saariaho: Adriana Mater.” This is the first recording of Kaija Saariaho’s second opera, with Esa-Pekka Salonen leading the San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Symphony Chorus. Sadly, Saariaho died of cancer days before the recoding was made. Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Fleur Barron, Axelle Fanyo, Nicholas Phan & Christopher Purves; Jason O’Connell, producer.

(A nomination went to John Adams: Girls of the Golden West,” which included CCM voice professor Elliot Madore in the cast.)

Best Choral Performance:“Ochre.” Donald Nally, conductor (The Crossing).  (Incidentally, Nally is former artistic director of the Cincinnati Vocal Arts Ensemble.)

Best Chamber Music/small ensemble Performance:“Rectangles and Circumstance,” Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion.

Best Classical Instrumental Solo: “Bach: Goldberg Variations,” Víkingur Ólafsson.

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album: Beyond the Years – Unpublished Songs of Florence Price, Karen Slack, soloist; Michelle Cann, pianist. (Cann is a former MAC Music Innovator at the CSO, which whom she has appeared as soloist, and she has also performed for Chamber Music Cincinnati.)

Best Classical Compendium: Gabriela Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor; Dmitriy Lipay, producer.

Best Contemporary Classical Composition: Ortiz: “Revolución Diamantina”
Gabriela Ortiz, composer (Gustavo Dudamel, Los Angeles Philharmonic & Los Angeles Master Chorale).

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media: Maestro: Music By Leonard Bernstein — Bradley Cooper & Yannick Nézet-Séguin, artists; Bradley Cooper, Yannick Nézet-Séguin & Jason Ruder, compilation producers; Steven Gizicki, music supervisor.

Here’s a much-deserved award — Cuban-American composer Tania Leon was awarded the Recording Academy Trustees Award: Lifetime Achievement Award.

To see the full list and more, visit grammy.com.