Cecilia Livingston


Cecilia Livingston is a British-Canadian composer who specializes in music for voice. She is in residence at Glyndebourne, where her work is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. Cecilia Livingston is a Fellow at the American Opera Projects in New York, and she is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow in Music at King's College London.

Awards and Events

Cecilia Livingston is a Winner of the Canadian Music Centre’s 2018 Emerging Composer Award, the 2018 Mécénat Musica Prix 3 Femmes for female opera creators in Canada, and a winner in the SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers. Her music has been heard at Nuit Blanche, the 21C Music Festival, World Choir Games and with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. She studied with Steve Reich at Bang On a Can’s Summer Music Festival and at Soundstreams’ Emerging Composer Workshop. Upcoming projects include new work for Glyndebourne, a full-length opera for Opera 5 and TorQ Percussion Quartet, new work for Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, and a song cycle created with Orange Prize winner and poet Anne Michaels.

Education

Cecilia Livingston holds a doctorate in composition from the University of Toronto.