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Cedille is excited to release an exclusive YouTube single of the sixth movement, “Assembly” from Vijay Iyer’s Trouble in a masterful performance by violinist Jennifer Koh and the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble conducted by Timothy Weiss. Iyer’s work is featured in The Cool Blue Wind, a photographic collage and permanent installation at the Obama Presidential Center.
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.
Enjoy performances from the 2025 Emerging Artist Competition finalists, plus a performance from 2021’s winner Julian Velasco! Our second competition, sponsored by the Zell Family Foundation, included a diverse class of incredibly accomplished, early-career musicians with deep ties to Chicago.
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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.