New Zealand logger Mike Crowl wrote a very nice blog post about my book, By Heart: The Art of Memorizing Music. He writes, "This has been the most helpful book I've come across in a long time, in terms…
Dec 30 2016
Nov 15 2016
Messiah community singalong
I will be leading a community singalong Messiah in New Bedford, MA on Sunday, November 27 at 4pm. This charity event will be made up of singers from across the community, and you are cordially invited to come sing or…
Oct 24 2016
Singalong with Automne!
Towards the end of the summer, I was asked to participate in a demo recording for Les Enfants d'Orphée. Little did I know that it was a video demo! The end result is here: https://youtu.be/oG2-NO8FaGA
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Aug 27 2016
Editing Telemann
Back in June, baroque violinist Dorian Komanoff Bandy and I recorded Telemann for a new CD to be released on Whaling City Sound. I blogged about that then (http://paulcienniwa.com/news/blog/preparing-to-record-telemann), and now Dorian has blogged about the editing process.…
Jul 29 2016
Old songs presented in a new way is an ALLISON treat
SouthCoast Today
Posted Jul. 28, 2016 at 2:01 AM
LITTLE COMPTON — ALLISON will perform music from their debut CD, “Volume One,” featuring songs of Joni Mitchell, Cat Stevens, Graham Nash, and more on Aug. 4 at St. Andrews…
Jun 24 2016
Musical Chairs
Those who keep up with my news will remember that I was hired as Director of the Collegiate Chorale at Stonehill College back in 2014, just in time to start teaching the 2015 spring semester (http://paulcienniwa.com/news/blog/paul-cienniwa-appointed-director-of-the-collegiate-chorale-at-stonehill-college).
On a…
On a…
Jun 15 2016
Preparing to record Telemann
Last week, Dorian Komanoff Bandy and I gave a preview performance of the Telemann sonatas that we will be recording at WGBH studios this week. Some of the sonatas made it to YouTube:
Sonata No. 2
https://youtu.be/xCb0_mnouBg
Sonata No. 3 …
Sonata No. 2
https://youtu.be/xCb0_mnouBg
Sonata No. 3 …
May 5 2016
The Candy Store
Singer/songwriter Peter Neuendorffer is a member of the congregation at First Church in Boston. He has played for services on occasion, and his song "The Candy Store" has always struck me as something I'd like to set for choir.
I…
I…
Apr 20 2016
Performers Who Listened To Their Audience
By Paul Bubluski | Newport Mercury | April 19, 2016
Boasting over 40-years of combined performing experience, it’s difficult to imagine a scenario in which career-musicians Allison Messier and Paul Cienniwa would be caught off guard onstage. That is…
Apr 7 2016
Folk rock and classical fare find a match
MANCHESTER — Think Joni Mitchell, Cat Stevens, Graham Nash-meets-Elizabethan composers. Mezzo-soprano Allison Messier teams up with harpsichordist Paul Cienniwa in a CD-release concert at 4 p.m. Sunday at The Derryfield School Performing Arts Auditorium, 2108 River Road.
The duo…
Apr 5 2016
Paul Cienniwa on SoundCloud
I don't really use SoundCloud for audio uploads. (I tend to use YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/pcienniwa)
When SoundCloud came up in a Google search, however, I saw that I was on a number of different recordings. It's quite a diverse list: …
When SoundCloud came up in a Google search, however, I saw that I was on a number of different recordings. It's quite a diverse list: …
Mar 23 2016
'Twice the Fun'--outstanding in every respect
EastBayRI.com
by Jonathan F. Babbitt
LITTLE COMPTON--On Sunday afternoon the 6th of March, Little Compton was treated to a program, as beautifully executed as it was creatively conceived. Performers Paul Cienniwa (organist and choirmaster at First Unitarian Universalist Church in…
by Jonathan F. Babbitt
LITTLE COMPTON--On Sunday afternoon the 6th of March, Little Compton was treated to a program, as beautifully executed as it was creatively conceived. Performers Paul Cienniwa (organist and choirmaster at First Unitarian Universalist Church in…