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Like many nonprofit organizations, Cedille Records receives funding from a variety of sources, including grants from government agencies, foundations, and most importantly from you, our community of music lovers.
Of particular note right now, the National Endowment for the Arts’ (NEA) investment in arts nonprofits like Cedille over the years has been an essential source of support for meaningful, artist-driven work. You may have seen recent news that numerous NEA grants to arts organizations nationwide have been cancelled. While we did receive a “Notice of Termination” regarding one of our two current NEA-funded projects, we’re pleased to share that Cedille had already received the grant funds, which provided essential early support for the recording of Black Being, a bold and thought-provoking new work on the subject of Black womanhood by the genre-defying flute duo Flutronix, performed in collaboration with the Chicago Sinfonietta. We are not required to return any funds. Thanks to this early investment, along with the continued generosity of our donors, Black Being remains on track and is scheduled for release in February 2026.
We’re excited to bring this bold new work to listeners everywhere. We recognize, however, that finding future opportunities for partnership with the NEA, which used to encourage projects that engaged underrepresented voices in classical music (as Cedille so often does), may prove more difficult.
Moments like this underscore just how important Cedille’s donor community is to our work. Your support ensures that, even when we are hit with unexpected changes, we can continue to deliver extraordinary music that uplifts voices, tells important stories, and reaches audiences around the world. Thank you for being a part of the vital community that helps us further Cedille’s mission.
Recommended
Cedille’s newest digital single, Mischa Zupko: Harpsichord Concerto is available to stream everywhere. Scored for harpsichord and string quartet, the concerto exhibits highly idiomatic harpsichord writing, brought brilliantly into the present by Zupko’s ingenious reshaping of older musical styles into a thoroughly modern expression.
From Chicago-based composter Stacy Garrop comes INVICTUS, Latin for “unconquered.” The work unfolds across four movements and an interlude, moving between lyrical introspection, fierce determination, and triumphant resolve, with Grammy-nominated pianist Marta Aznavoorian and the Chicago Philharmonic under the direction of Artistic Director Scott Speck. Available 5/8.
Haymarket Opera Company presents early-18th-century master Leonardo Vinci’s rare operatic gem, Artaserse (1730). A prominent figure of the Neapolitan School of opera, whose work influenced composers such as Johann Adolph Hasse and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Vinci’s three-act opera seria centers on the Persian prince, Artaserse, who must bring his father’s murderer to justice amidst betrayal, deceit, and mistaken identity.
In celebration of the June 12 digital single release of Mischa Zupko:Harpsichord Concerto, this month’s playlist features that very instrument and its many personalities. There’s delicacy in Lully’s Passacaille contrasted by Soler’s muscular Keyboard Sonata No. 81 in G Minor. Appearing both accompanied and unaccompanied, the harpsichord takes center stage this month.
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