Cécile Kempenaers studied voice with Mireille Capelle and Rolande Van der Paal at the conservatory of Ghent.  Subsequently she pursued advanced studies with Margreet Honig, Ingrid Voermans, and Jutta Schlegel. She participates in Zefiro Torna, the Huelgas Ensemble, the Collegium Vocale Gent, the French ensemble Akâdemia, the Vocal Consort Berlin, and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir. She often performed as a soloist, both live and on CD, in works by, among others, Schütz, Landi, Buxtehude, Bach, Pergolesi, Purcell, Händel, Telemann and Mendelssohn, with conductors such as Philippe Herreweghe, Marcus Creed, François Lasserre, Attilio Cremonesi, Hans Christoph Rademann, and Paul Dombrecht.