RCM Community Recognized at the 2024 JUNO Awards

Alumni and other RCM community members were recognized at the 2024 JUNO awards last night both as winners and nominees. “Canada’s Biggest Night in Music” was hosted by Nelly Furtado who is both an alumna and Honorary Fellow of the RCM.  For the previous two years, the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) JUNO Awards were hosted by RCM alumnus, Simu Liu. 

RCM alumna Tate McRae won Artist of the Year as well Single of the Year for Greedy. Group of the Year was awarded to The Beaches, of which RCM alumna Leandra Earl is a member, who also won Rock Album of the Year for Blame My Ex. RCM alumna Amanda Marshall won Adult Contemporary Album of the Year for Heavy Lifting and James Ehnes, RCM Honorary Fellow and Koerner Hall artist, won Classical Album of the Year: Solo Artist for Nielsen: Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 4. Lastly, RCM alumnae, Teagan and Sara, were honoured with the JUNOs Humanitarian Award for their efforts in supporting 2SLGBTQ+ youth.  

Other RCM community 2024 JUNO winners included: 

• BLOND:ISH aka Vivie-ann Bakos (RCM Alumna) for Call My Name (Underground Dance Single of the Year) 

• Christine Jensen (Koerner Hall artist) for Day Moon (Jazz Album of the Year: Solo) 

• Dominique Fils-Aimee (Koerner Hall artist) for Our Roots Run Deep (Vocal Jazz Album of the Year) 

• Feist (RCM Honorary Fellow) for Multitudes (Adult Alternative Album of the Year) 

• Hilario Duran (Koerner Hall artist) for Cry Me A River (Jazz Album of the Year: Group) 

• Nicole Lizée (Koerner Hall artist) for Don't Throw Your Head in Your Hands (Classical Composition of the Year) 

• OKAN (Koerner Hall artist) for Okantomi (Global Music Album of the Year)

Many other RCM community members were nominated for JUNO awards including RCM alumna and Koerner Hall artist Allison Au whose album Migrations was nominated for Jazz Album of the Year: Group. Migrations was commissioned by The Royal Conservatory in 2019, premiered in January 2020 at the RCM’s 21C Music Festival, and was recorded as Au’s fourth studio album in 2022. 

RCM community 2024 JUNO nominees also included: 

• Amahl Arulanandam (RCM alumnus and Koerner Hall artist) for Bestiaries (Classical Album of the Year, Large Ensemble)  

• Rich Aucoin (RCM alumnus) for Synthetic Season 2 (Electronic Album of the Year)  

• Meredith Bates (RCM alumna) for Tesseract (Instrumental Album of the Year)  

• Laila Biali (RCM alumna) for Your Requests (Vocal Jazz Album of the Year)  

• Alex Bird (RCM alumnus) for Songwriter (Vocal Jazz Album of the Year) 

• Silvie Cheng (RCM alumna) for Portrait (Classical Album of the Year, Small Ensemble) 

• Caroline Marie Brooks (RCM alumna) for We Will Never Be The Same (Contemporary Roots Album of the Year) 

• Brian Current (RCM alumnus and Koerner Hall artist) for Bestiaries (Classical Album of the Year, Large Ensemble) 

• Luca Fogale (RCM alumnus) for Run Where the Light Calls (Adult Contemporary Album of the Year) 

• Emily Haines of Metric (RCM alumna) for Formentera II Metric (Rock Album of the Year)  

• Barbara Hannigan (RCM alumnus and Koerner Hall artist) for Infinite Voyage (Classical Album of the Year: Solo Artist) 

• Hill Kourkoutis (RCM alumna) (Jack Richardson Producer of the Year) 

• Taes Leavitt (RCM alumna) for Love-a-By (Children's Album of the Year)  

• Mark Limacher (RCM alumnus) for You're Alike, You Two (Vocal Jazz Album of the Year) 

• Russ Macklem (RCM alumnus) for The South Detroit Connection (Jazz Album of the Year: Solo) 

• Omega Mighty (RCM alumna) for Rush Dem (Reggae Recording of the Year) 

• Charlotte Mundy (RCM alumna) for Bestiaries (Classical Album of the Year, Large Ensemble) 

• Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Koerner Hall artist) for Sibelius 3 & 4 (Classical Album of the Year: Large Ensemble) 

• Brooke Nicholls (RCM alumna) for Glory To God (Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year) 

• Kerri Ough (RCM alumna) for We Will Never Be The Same (Contemporary Roots Album of the Year) 

• Susan Passmore (RCM alumna) for We Will Never Be The Same (Contemporary Roots Album of the Year) 

• Justin Tessier (RCM alumnus) for Pretty Monster (Rock Album of the Year) 

• Shania Twain (RCM alumna) for Queen of Me (Pop Album of the Year) and Artist of the Year 

See the full list of winners and nominees here.  Congratulations to all!