Upcoming Releases
Cedille Records (operating organization, Cedille Chicago, NFP) is a Grammy-winning not-for-profit recording company that promotes Chicago’s world class performers and composers by permanently documenting their artistry on high-quality recordings. As a nonprofit funded largely by charitable donations and uninhibited by the need to reach commercially-driven sales targets, Cedille Records is able to provide a renowned platform for these musicians to pursue their artistic visions.
PACIFICA QUARTET| AMERICAN VOICES
The Pacifica Quartet continues its American Collections project with an album highlighting the unique tradition of American song. American Voices features the world premiere recording of a new work by composer James Lee III alongside pieces by Florence Price and Louis Gruenberg, plus music from Antonín Dvořák’s time in the United States, including “Goin’ Home” from his “New World” Symphony. The acclaimed children’s choir Uniting Voices Chicago joins the Quartet for this exciting program.
(Spring 2024)
Eric Rudd Photography
ELIZABETH BOWDEN, CHICAGO YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA/ALLEN TINKHAM | STORYTELLER: CONTEMPORARY CONCERTOS FOR TRUMPET
Classical trumpeter Mary Elizabeth Bowden partners with the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra (of which she’s an alumna) for an exciting program showcasing new works by living composers. The album presents world premieres of works written for Bowden by Clarice Assad, Tyson Davis, Reena Esmail, Vivian Fung, Sarah Kirkland Snider, and James M. Stephenson.
(June 2024)
EIGHTH BLACKBIRD | COMPOSITION AS EXPLANATION
Multiple Grammy-winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird continues to push the boundaries between classical music and art performance with the world premiere recording of composition as explanation. Composed by Pulitzer Prize and Grammy winner David Lang, composition is based on Gertrude Stein’s 1926 essay culled from her celebrated Oxford lectures of the same name.
(July 2024)
Photo by Freddie Collier
IAN KOZIARA, BRADLEY MOORE | SILENCED – UNSUNG VOICES OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Tenor Ian Koziara makes his Cedille debut with a recital that highlights composers whose lives were affected by antisemitism and the Holocaust. The program comprises songs by Vítězslava Kaprálová, Franz Schrecker, Viktor Ullman, and Alexander Zemlinsky. An alumnus of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and 2022 Luminarts Cultural Foundation Fellow, Koziara is a rising star in opera.
Supported by Patricia Kenney & Gregory O’Leary and the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Fund for Vocal Recordings at Cedille Records
PROJECTED RELEASE | AUGUST 2024
Photo by Kristen Hoebermann