About

Harpist from Toulouse, Cécile Delage today has the chance to make a living from her passions in Montreal. She devotes most of her time to teaching the harp. After teaching in music schools such as Sérénité Sonore, the Youth School of the Faculty of Music of the University of Montreal, or the Siamsa Montreal School of Irish Music, she developed her own school today, Aziliz in which she teaches both individual and group lessons, combining classical, Celtic and modern music. She also keeps space for her varied music projects.

Cécile discovered this “enchanting” instrument in Toulouse in France when she was 9 years old. Very quickly, she went to the classical harp, called concert harp. After several years at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Toulouse, Cécile has come to settle in Quebec since 2012 to study musicology and music interpretation. She has performed with orchestras, such as the Orchestre Symphonique des Jeunes de Montréal, or the University of Montreal Orchestra. She also participated in orchestral internships at the Orford art center (now Orford Music), masterclasses (Catherina Englichova, Isabelle Moretti, Xavier De Maistre), and has given several solo recitals (Orford Music, master's recitals). With a master's degree in classical harp (followed with Caroline Lizotte at the University of Montreal), she decided to devote more time to celtic music since 2017. She also plays currently with the Orchestre Philarmonia Mundi of Montreal.

During the summer of 2010, she discovered the complexity of Irish music, participating in the International Festival of University Music in Belfort in France. Then, in a celtic harp lesson with the harpist Janet Harbison, in Limerick, Ireland. Since the end of her studies, she has developed this style on her celtic harp, in search of new sounds and combinations of genres. She has since developed several musical projects, such as with Orange Mist with whom she recorded a CD in 2018 or Duo Delmes, founded in 2015 with the flautist François-Xavier Dueymes, with whom she played two times in a row at the festival Celtic Harmonies. She has a new trio with clarinet and cello, named Malvenn (violet in breton).

Cecile also plays for yoga classes, traditional dances and theater pieces. She co-founded the Montreal Harpists Society. In may 2023, her student's group music Borealys participated in the Harpes au Max festival in France.

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