Cedille announces the 2025 Emerging Artist Competition semi-finalists!

Meet the Semi-Finalists

Your Shopping Cart


Your cart is currently empty.

Continue Shopping


Discover

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

Pre-order

The Cavatina Duo — renowned Bosnian guitarist Denis Azabagić and Spanish flutist Eugenia Moliner — collaborates with the Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet on River of Fire, an album featuring world-premiere recordings of five original compositions that bridge classical traditions and Gypsy influences.

Now Available

Songs in Flight features world premiere recordings of Shawn E. Okpebholo’s complete song cycle for which the album is named, along with four additional art songs — one from each of his other song cycles — building upon the themes and messages of his work, performed by Grammy winning and-nominated artists known for their dedication to cultural and historical music projects.

Monthly Playlist

Newly updated for Black History Month 2025 and in honor of our February release, Chicago composer Shawn E. Okpbeholo’s Songs in Flight, our Black Composers on Cedille playlist now features albums from the past two years at the top.

Album of the Week

Enjoy 25% off Cedille’s Weekly Featured Release.