Our Vision

Through performance, The Cecilia Ensemble aspires to develop innovative programming, collaborate with musicians to develop meaningful outreach programs, and promote music and music education in the community. The Cecilia Ensemble was founded to:
  • Expose people to works of art in their original context as much as possible within an ensemble setting
  • Develop thoughtful performances through innovative programming
  • Collaborate with area musicians to develop meaningful outreach programs
  • Promote music in the community through accurate and insightful performances of early music
  • Be a community of singers, professionals, and musicians who collaborate to learn more about music performance and life in general
​The Cecilia Ensemble, Inc. is a 501 3c organization based in Augusta, Georgia

2017-2018 Season

Please check back as performance information is updated closer to scheduled dates.

January 25-28, 2018 - TCE in Residence at Bloomburg University, Bloomburg, PA
The Cecilia Ensemble joins Lyric Consort to perform works written for two choirs: Sanctus (Missa Laudate Dominum), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina; Kyrie ('Cantus Missae', Op. 109), Josef Gabriel Rheinberger; and Faire is the heaven, W. H. Harris. Performing alone, The Cecilia Ensemble selections include: I am the Rose of Sharon, Wiiliam Billings, Ubi caritas​, David Conte; Ave verum corpus, Daniel Elder; Hymn to St. Cecilia, Benjamin Britten; and settings of American hymns and spirituals.

April 6, 2018 - Friends of Music Concert Series, Bald Head Island, NC
The Cecilia Ensemble returns to Bald Head to perform for the Friends of Music Society, The program includes motets and anthems of Tudor England and early American music.

June 3, 2018 - Sacred Heart Cultural Center, Augusta, GA
Our annual summer concert features music celebrating life, loss, and resurrection. The concert's title is taken from the first stanza of John Dryden's A Song for St. Cecilia's Day (1687):

From harmony, from Heav'nly harmony
This universal frame began:
From harmony to harmony
Through all the compass of the notes it ran,
The diapason closing full in man.

The program includes Komm, Jesu, Komm, Johann Sebastian Bach; Take him, earth, for cherishing, Herbert Howells; Rest, Ralph Vaughn Williams; Funeral Ikos, John Tavener; Dum transisset Sabbatum, John Taverner; Alleluia, Fredrik Sixten; and the world premier of Dryden's A Song for St. Cecilia's Day set to music by Daniel Elder.