Renowned and award-winning British composer Cecilia McDowall will travel to Cleveland in February for the concert Cecilia and Her World: Music of Cecilia McDowall, presented by the Cleveland Chamber Choir under the baton of artistic director Scott Macpherson. Central to these concerts celebrating her choral works will be a newly-commissioned piece. These concerts will also include music she considers influential to her own style. McDowall won the British Composer Award for Choral Music in 2014 and, more recently, the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Works Collection in 2021. Her works are performed worldwide.

Additionally, several collegiate choirs from Case Western Reserve University, Kent State University, will join us for these concerts, and join CCC for a massed performance of McDowall’s The Presence. A pre-concert talk will be presented by Charles Edward McGuire, PhD, from Oberlin College & Conservatory, 45 minutes before the performances. This concert is sponsored in part by the Tri-M Foundation, Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, and the Ohio Arts Council.