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Welcome to our new website!
WELCOME!
We hope our new website provides you with an improved experience so that our artists’ work is more accessible to you and classical music listeners everywhere. After all, you the listener are a vital component of our unique not-for-profit mission: to record Chicago’s finest classical musicians and promote them to a world-wide listening audience.
Please explore the site, see what it has to offer, and let us know what can be improved. In addition to the updated look and feel, it has new features that we hope you will enjoy:
- Purchase individual tracks so you can add to your collection by work, movement, or however you like.
- Sample every track from our newer recordings!
- Improved and more reliable FLAC downloads.
- Submit a review of your latest Cedille discovery. Your thoughts and feedback are important to us and our artists — we’re very excited to learn what you think! Be the first to review a 2015 release and we’ll give you $10 off your next order.
- A new media player: select from two channels on our site-wide player:
1) Selected tracks from our latest releases
2) A weekly featured Cedille Chicago Presents podcast
We’ll use this blog to keep you informed about Cedille and our work with Chicago’s finest artists. Expect posts on new recordings, events, and ways you can get more involved. You’ll hear from our artists, Board members and donors, and members of Cedille’s staff.
If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions, leave us a comment below or email us at info@cedillerecords.org.
Best regards and happy listening,
James Ginsburg
President
Recommended
Commissioned by Cedille Records specially for our 2025 Emerging Artist Competition winner, oboist Oliver Talukder, as a companion for his Briefly Gorgeous album, Powder is a two-track single of Two Songs for voice, oboe/English horn, and piano by Delfin Demiray, who was Talukder’s classmate at the Curtis Institute of Music. The first song features Chicago mezzo, Sophia Maekawa, while Talukder performs the second song’s special effect and extended technique-infused vocal line himself (as an “overdub”), demonstrating yet another facet of his artistry.
Winner of Cedille Records’ 2025 Emerging Artist Competition, Chicago-born oboist Oliver Talukder makes his solo recording debut with Briefly Gorgeous. Joined by pianist Moriah Trenk, Talukder presents an album inspired by themes of identity, love, family, and belonging. Drawing on his Mexican and Bengali heritage and his Chicago upbringing, the program explores where classical music intersects with Latino and South Asian traditions, creating a musical portrait shaped by Talukder’s unique story.
With the new month comes a new featured playlist on Spotify — or, in this case, a refresh of our Artist Debuts on Cedille playlist, originally created in 2022 to celebrate the inaugural album by the first Emerging Artist Competition winner, saxophonist Julian Velasco.
The update is to celebrate oboist Oliver Talukder, winner of Cedille’s second competition, as well as other artists who have made their Cedille debus since 2022. (Oliver’s track will be added on Friday when his album, Briefly Gorgeous, is released.)
Enjoy Cedille’s Weekly Featured Release.