Cecille Elliott stewards the role of lowest alto in Lyyra. She is a multi-instrumentalist currently based in Portland, Oregon, with a passion for music’s diversity of purpose, expression style, and metaphorical voice through different genres and contexts around the world. She began her music studies on violin and viola, but also found a passion for solo singing from a young age in part through listening to and learning songs of 90s and early aughts radio. Voice would become the center of her studies when she went to university, focusing on solo and choral vocal jazz and classical styles. Her present gigging life in music primarily surrounds performing, recording, writing, and arranging. She is a commissioned composer, having written for both voice and strings.

Outside of music, Cecille loves a good thrift, a good cup of coffee, story-telling as an artform, a day adventure, sports and games, researching genealogy, learning about the cosmos.