cecille elliott

Cecille is a multifaceted musician specializing in voice, violin, and viola. Throughout her music career she has taken on various avenues from orchestra halls and auditoriums to pubs and open mics. Her passion lies in the diversity of music, and how her instruments find voices around the world and in various genres.

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Cecille grew up in a household of string players and dedicated her younger years to learn violin and viola, playing chamber music and orchestral music in her hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan.​ She received her Bachelor of Arts in 2011 from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan where she focused on voice studies. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon.

 

As a performer and creator, she has collaborated with various artists across the country to bring their projects to life, and she can be found performing regularly around Portland. She takes her singer-songwriter sets to local venues, creative writing being one of the main passions of her life, and drivers of her career. Locally she sings regularly with Resonance Ensemble and is recruited to sing and play for other local organizations and artists. She is a commissioned composer having written and performed two of those works for Resonance.​

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Cecille currently sings with Lyyra, a 6-voice women's choir from the Voces8 Foundation, as the lowest alto of the group. They are signed with Warner Classics, and together have toured the United States and Europe bringing performances and workshops of many genres of choral music to audiences around the world.

 

She spends much of her free time buried in various forms of creative writing, and building her skills as a visual artist, with film, photography, drawing, and painting as her mediums of choice.