Cedille Records () is the

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of the Chicago Classical Recording Foundation.

History

In 1989, James Ginsburg, the son of U.S. Supreme Court

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg ( ; ; March 15, 1933September 18, 2020) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was nominated by Presiden ...

, founded Cedille Records as a for-profit classical music recording company featuring Chicago-area musicians. Ginsburg's vision for Cedille was "to record local musicians overlooked by the major labels." Cedille is the only Chicago-based classical label since Mercury Living Presence in the 1950s. In 1994, Cedille was transformed into a not-for-profit record label under the umbrella of the Chicago Classical Recording Foundation. The label's releases included ''The Pulitzer Project'', an album featuring Chicago's Grant Park Symphony Orchestra which includes two world premier recordings: William Schuman's " A Free Song" (Pulitzer 1943) and Leo Sowerby's " Canticle of the Sun" (Pulitzer 1946).

Awards and honors

Several CDs released on the label have won or been nominated for

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s. In 2004 ''Brahms & Joachim Violin Concertos'' was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical and in 2005 ''Robert Kurka Symphonic Works'' was nominated in the same category. In 2008 the ensemble eighth blackbird won the

Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance The Grammy Award The Grammy Awards (stylized as GRAMMY), or simply known as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize "outstanding" achievements in the music industry. They are regarded by m ...

for their album ''strange imaginary animals''. In the same year, Judith Sherman won the Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Classical for her work with the label. ''strange imaginary animals'' was included among her production credits along with Jennifer Koh's album ''String Poetic'', which was nominated in the Best Chamber Music Performance category in the same year. In 2009, Ursula Oppens' album ''Oppens Plays Carter'' was nominated for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) in 2009. Most of those nominated for Grammy Awards and an additional thirty-one albums released on the label have received Classics Today's highest rating, 10/10. The song "Nulla in Mundo Pax Sincera" from ''A Vivaldi Concert'' was featured in the documentary ''Pale Male'', an episode of the documentary series ''Nature'' on PBS.

Roster

* Dmitry Paperno * Easley Blackwood, Jr. *

David Schrader David Schrader (born September 15, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American harpsichordist, organist, and fortepianist. He is a professor at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University where he teaches music history and conduc ...

* Kim Scholes * Rembrandt Chamber Players * Patrice Michaels * Georgia Mangos and Louise Mangos *

Chicago Symphony Orchestra The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) was founded by Theodore Thomas in 1891. The ensemble makes its home at Orchestra Hall in Chicago and plays a summer season at the Ravinia Festival. The music director is Riccardo Muti, who began his tenure ...

Boston Symphony Orchestra The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the second-oldest of the five major American symphony orchestras commonly referred to as the " Big Five". Founded by Henry Lee Higginson in 1881 ...

* Vermeer Quartet * John Bruce Yeh * Chicago Chamber Musicians * Chicago Baroque Ensembles * Paul Freeman *

Rachel Barton Pine Rachel Barton Pine (born Rachel Elizabeth Barton, October 11, 1974) is an American violinist. She debuted with the Chicago Symphony at age 10, and was the first American and youngest ever gold medal winner of the International Johann Sebastian ...

* Czech National Symphony Orchestra * Joyce Castle *

Chicago Opera Theater The Chicago Opera Theater (COT) is an American opera company based in Chicago, Illinois. COT is a resident company at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Chicago's Millennium Park and is currently in residence at the newly renovated Stude ...

* Encore Chamber Orchestra * His Majestie's Clerkes * Patrick Sinozich *

Alex Klein Alex Klein (born 1964, Porto Alegre) is an oboist who began his musical studies in his native Brazil at the age of nine, and made his solo orchestral debut the following year. At the age of eleven he was invited to join the Camerata Antigua, one o ...

* Mary Stolper * Wendy Warner * Chicago Pro Musica * Pacifica Quartet * Nancy Gustafson *

Cathy Basrak Cathy Basrak (born 1977) is an American violist. She is the Assistant Principal Violist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and gave the premiere of the John Williams' viola concerto. She previously won several important viola competitions such as t ...

Chicago Sinfonietta The Chicago Sinfonietta is an American orchestra based in Chicago, Illinois. It is nationally and internationally acclaimed as a cultural leader and a powerful advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion and is renowned for its groundbreaking, d ...

* Prague Chamber Chorus * Gaudete Brass Quintet * Michael Tree *

Jennifer Koh Jennifer Koh (born 1976) is an American violinist, born to Korean parents in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Life and career Koh earned a B.A. in English Literature from Oberlin College, as well as a Performance Diploma from the attached Oberlin Conservat ...

* Grant Park Orchestra * New Budapest Orpheum Society * eighth blackbird * Amelia Trio * Recho Uchida * Jorge Federico Osorio * Mathieu Dufour * Charles Pickler * Gary Stucka * Scottish Chamber Orchestra * Orion Ensemble * Elizabeth Buccheri * Cavatina Duo * Matthew Hagle * Trio Settecento * Biava Quartet * Lincoln Trio * William Ferris Chorale * Composer Festival Orchestra * Richard Young *

Ricardo Castro Ricardo Castro Herrera (Rafael de la Santísima Trinidad Castro Herrera) (7 February 1864 – 27 November 1907) was a Mexican concert pianist and composer, considered the last romantic of the time of Porfirio Díaz. Life Castro was bor ...

Jennifer Larmore Jennifer Larmore (born June 21, 1958) is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer, particularly noted for her performances in coloratura and bel canto roles which she has performed in the world's major opera houses.Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, La ...

* Royal Philharmonic Orchestra * Chicago a cappella *

Ursula Oppens Ursula Oppens (born February 2, 1944) is an American classical concert pianist and educator. She has received five Grammy Award nominations. Biography Ursula Oppens was born on February 2, 1944, in New York City into a highly musical family f ...

Chicago Children's Choir Chicago Children's Choir is a non-profit organization, founded in 1956 at First Unitarian Church of Chicago. Organization Founded in Hyde Park in 1956, CCC has grown from one choir into a network of in-school and after-school programs serving near ...

* Baroque Band * Beethoven Project Trio *

Jerome Lowenthal Jerome Lowenthal (born February 11, 1932) is an American classical pianist. He has served as chair of the piano department at the Juilliard School in New York. Additionally, Lowenthal is on the faculty at Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbar ...

* Irina Nuzova * Kuang Hao-Huang * New Brandenburg Collegium

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Awards and honors

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