Paul Cienniwa


Paul Cienniwa is an American harpsichordist, organist, choral conductor, and arts administrator. He is Executive Director of the Binghamton Philharmonic. Previously, he was Music Director at First Church in Boston and Chorus Master of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra. He was on the faculties of the Music School of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, Lynn University Conservatory of Music, UMass Dartmouth, and Framingham State University. He has recorded for Albany Records and Whaling City Sound. He has collaborated with uilleann piper Jerry O'Sullivan, recorder player Aldo Abreu, baroque violinist Dorian Komanoff Bandy, and violinist Rachel Barton Pine.

Life

Cienniwa was born in Niles, Illinois in 1972. He completed his undergraduate at DePaul University in 1994. He then attended the Yale School of Music, where he earned a M.M. in 1997, a M.M.A. in 1998, and a D.M.A. in 2003. His principal teachers were harpsichordists Roger Goodman and Richard Rephann and organist Jerome Butera.

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