PAUL CIENNIWA

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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: …

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…

EastBayRI, March 8, 2016

Under the name of “Allison,” Little Compton resident Allison Messier and Fall River resident Paul Cienniwa have released their debut CD, “Allidson: Volume One.” The recording is a collection of songs by Joni Mitchell, Cat…

ALLISON: Volume One, featuring songs of Joni Mitchell, Cat Stevens, John Dowland, Phil Ochs, Neil Young, Billy Joel, Henry Purcell, and Graham Nash, is now available. Click here for purchasing options.

Yesterday at First Church in Boston, 'cellist Leo Eguchi and I performed Ellie Miller's So Nat, A Sonata: 

https://youtu.be/Y8U9I34mVuM

Ellie is also the composer of the It's Elementary, profiled here: http://paulcienniwa.com/news/blog/tribute-to-sandy-hook-victims-set-to-obama-s-words

Also in that same service (a…

By Matthew Guerrieri BOSTON GLOBE CORRESPONDENT  JANUARY 22, 2016 

On Jan. 24, ALLISON — mezzo-soprano Allison Messier and harpsichordist Paul Cienniwa — performs at Quincy’s Thomas Crane Public Library. The duo’s raison d’être, re-interpreting rock and popular repertoire with…