Congratulations to composers Steve Reich, Jonny Greenwood, and Sarah Kirkland Snider, all of whom have been shortlisted for Opus Klassik Awards in Germany.

Steve Reich has been nominated for World Premiere Recording of the Year for the first recordings of his pieces Jacob's Ladder and Traveler's Prayer. The former, performed by the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Jaap van Zweden, and Synergy Vocals, was made during its October 2023 world premiere at Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall. “Lovely and refreshing," says the New York Classical Review. "Superb." The latter, performed by Colin Currie Group and Synergy Vocals, was made at Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, also in 2023. "The tone of its score, from first note to last, is sustained sublimity," says the Los Angeles Times. You can get it and hear it here.

Jonny Greenwood's score to the Paul Thomas Anderson film One Battle After Another has been nominated for Film Music/Score of the Year. It features 18 new compositions performed by London Contemporary Orchestra, with conductor Hugh Tieppo-Brunt. Greenwood contributed piano, guitar, bass, percussion, and ondes Martenot. The film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, and Benicio Del Toro, and Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti, is Greenwood's sixth Nonesuch-released Anderson film score. "Paul Thomas Anderson fans are well accustomed to how instrumental Jonny Greenwood's music is to the auteur’s body of work," Indiewire says of their collaborations: "Greenwood's original scores expertly capture Anderson's tones." You can get it and hear it here.

Sarah Kirkland Snider's album Forward Into Light has been nominated for New Classic/Neoclassic. Snider’s fifth full-length LP, the all-orchestral album Forward Into Light was produced by Silas Brown and recorded by Metropolis Ensemble led by artistic director/conductor Andrew Cyr. It features Forward Into Light, inspired by the American women’s suffrage movement; the string orchestra and harp (Noël Wan) version of Drink the Wild Ayre; Eye of Mnemosyne, a work on memory, innovation, and culture; and Something for the Dark, a meditation on resilience. Snider says: “I chose to create an album of these four works because they share themes of perseverance, alliance, and evolution through dark and light—concepts that have been at the forefront of my mind in recent years." You can get it and hear it here.

The winners will be announced this summer. The Opus Klassik 2026 awards will be presented in Berlin during the weekend of October 9–11, 2026.