CECILIA CONCERTS SOCIETY
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Mission Statement
To connect people across communities through the power and passion of live chamber music. To promote a diversity of premiere chamber music experiences, nurturing and educating audiences and artists.
About This Cause
For more than thirty years, Cecilia Concerts has been presenting diverse, world-class chamber music experiences in welcoming, bilingual, accessible, and intimate settings that connect our community, educate and inspire audiences and artists, and enhance the rich heritage and culture of K'jipuktuk/Halifax. A non-profit charity, over the past three decades, we have presented inspiring performances by hundreds of emerging and established musicians, including countless GRAMMY, JUNO, Prix Opus, and Prix Félix-winning artists. Our organization is widely recognized in our region and across Canada for the quality and diversity of its performing arts, educational, and community outreach programming. Cecilia Concerts’ 2022/2023 Musician-In-Residence is multiple prize-winning pianist Silvie Cheng. Our 2021/2022 Composer-In-Residence is Nehiyaw/Cree composer and flutist Jessica McMann, who is a Laureate of the Hnatyshyn Foundation REVEAL Indigenous Art Awards. Our Sensory-Accessible Concerts series is led by award-winning pianist Jennifer King and Registered Music Therapist Anna Plaskett. These free concerts are designed to be welcoming, friendly, and accessible for autistic, neurodivergent, and intellectually disabled community members and their families, as well as seniors with age-related changes in hearing and vision that can make loud noises and bright lights uncomfortable or for anyone with underlying conditions that can affect their sensory processing and make traditional concert environments challenging. Our Bravura Nova Scotia–Cecilia Concerts Scholarship Fund provides a generous annual tuition scholarship to a Nova Scotian student aged fifteen or older who, while also enrolled in music theory, shows exceptional promise in an area of music performance. Cecilia Concerts is a member of CAPACOA - the Canadian Association for the Performing Arts, the Canadian Live Music Association, the Atlantic Presenters Association, and Music Nova Scotia. Cecilia Concerts is also an allied member of IPAA - the Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance. STATEMENT OF VALUES: -We value the audience experience through creativity, respect, equity, diversity, accessibility, reciprocity, and inclusiveness in our endeavours and relationships. -We are committed to promoting music of the highest quality. -We are committed to recognizing and developing local artists. -We are committed to providing a safe environment free of harassment and discrimination in which we address systemic inequities and provide equitable access to chamber music. -We are committed to engaging with communities to create the next generation of performers and audiences. -We are committed to inter-organizational collaboration for strong partnerships with local and nationally allied concert-presenting entities and other community organizations. -We honour and hold ourselves accountable to each other, our artists, audiences, partners, volunteers, and the community at large by honouring these commitments.