Watch Soirée Cedille Highlights
Virtual Concert & Benefit
September 28, 2025 | 5PM (CDT)
A big challenge [for emerging artists] right now is getting our voices out there. We need a community to support us, to believe in us, and to give us the resources, along with the guidance. As an emerging artist, I’m trying to figure it all out, and . . . Cedille Records is really helping.”
— Oliver Talukder, oboe
2025 Emerging Artist Competition winner
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Concert Program
OLIVER TALUKDER, OBOE
MORIAH TRENK, PIANO
ALYSSA MORRIS
“Yellow” from Four Personalities [0:11]
MARINA DRANISHNIKOVA (1929–1994)
Poem [2:51]
JEFFREY AGRELL
Blues for DD [11:16]
ARTURO MARQUEZ ARR. TALUKDER
Danzón No. 2 [14:45]
WILL LIVERMAN, BARITONE
KUANG-HAO HUANG, PIANO
DAMIEN SNEED
I Dream A World [0:11]
HENRY BURLEIGH (1866–1949)
“The Jungle Flower” from Five Love Songs of Laurence Hope [3:07]
MARGARET BONDS (1913–1972)
“What Lips my Lips have Kissed” from Four Songs [6:25]
SHAWN OKPEBHOLO
“Jubilee: Thomas Rutling” from Songs in Flight [9:27]
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791)
“Hai già vinta la causa … Vedro mentr’io sopiro”
from Act III of Le nozze di Figaro [15:03]
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HONORING
HELEN ZELL
MARTIN D. GINSBURG AWARD
Including a special video tribute (at 6:15)
RAVINIA FESTIVAL
MUSICAL PARTNERSHIP AWARD
Including a special performance (at 4:24) by
KARISA CHIU, VIOLIN
KUANG-HAO HUANG, PIANO
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