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Your Legacy: Supporting Chicago’s Future Musicians — and Musicians’ Futures
For more than three decades, Cedille Records has been committed to a singular mission: preserving and sharing the artistry of exceptional musicians through recordings that stand the test of time. Each album we produce is more than a moment in performance — it is a lasting document, ensuring that great music and great artists continue to inspire long into the future.
As we look ahead, Cedille’s organizational goal is sustainability: building the resources needed to continue recording, promoting, and preserving music for generations to come. While annual gifts make an immediate and meaningful impact, planned gifts play a uniquely powerful role in securing this future. They allow us to think beyond the present moment and ensure that Cedille’s work endures.
For musicians, a recording is a legacy — an artistic statement that lives on well beyond a single performance. It captures each musician or ensemble’s unique interpretation, expression, and voice in a way that audiences can revisit and rediscover for decades. In much the same way, a planned gift allows you to create your own enduring legacy.
“Just performing sometimes feels temporary. You perform, it’s out there, [then] it’s gone. But when you record, you’re creating something that’s going to exist like a visual work of art. It’s a permanent thing you have. [Recording] puts a stamp on it.”
— Anthony McGill, clarinetist
By including Cedille in your estate plans — whether through a bequest in your will or by naming Cedille as a beneficiary of a retirement account or life insurance policy — you extend your support beyond your lifetime. These gifts are usually simple to arrange, yet profoundly impactful. They help ensure that future artists will have the opportunity to record their work and that listeners everywhere will continue to experience the richness and diversity of classical music.
Your legacy can be one that champions artistry, preserves culture, and sustains an organization you value. With thoughtful planning today, you can help ensure that Cedille’s music — and your commitment to it — continues to resonate for generations to come.
For questions or more information, please contact Julie Polanski (julie@cedillerecords.org, 773.989.2518).
Recommended
Pacifica Quartet’s final album in the American Collections trilogy – American Portraits. Bringing together touchstones of the American repertoire, American Portraits features some of the most canonical American chamber works alongside world premiere recordings of two newly commissioned works.
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.