Paul Cienniwa is joining his longtime collaborator Michael Bahmann to perform Bach’s The Art of…
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Philharmonic plans return to Forum and busy summer season
Philharmonic plans return to Forum and busy summer season
By George Basler
After more than a year’s absence, the Binghamton Philharmonic will return to the Broome County Forum Theatre on June 19 for two concerts of Baroque music.
And Paul…
Read moreEncounter: TV interview
Back in December, I interviewed with Rev. Jeff Kellam for Encounter, a local TV show put on the the Broome County Council of Churches. Jeff gave me much opportunity to talk about of the the COVID-related goings on at the…
Read moreCoping with COVID: BPO scrambles to preserve season
Coping with COVID: BPO scrambles to preserve season
https://broomearts.org/coping-with-covid-bpo-scrambles-to-preserve-season/
By George Basler
The Binghamton Philharmonic’s 2020-21 season began with a whimper when the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of a BPO Beethoven Cycle concert, set for Nov. 14 at the…
Read moreSome NY arts institutions have seen 40% decreases in income. What they're doing to survive.
Excerpted from Democrat & Chronicle:
The Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra planned to hold three concerts in churches in the fall, but were later told by the state that the church’s exemption to re-open did not apply to non-religious activities. But…
Read moreInterview on WBDY
Binghamton's WBDY interviewed me about the Binghamton Philharmonic's Wallenberg Legacy. This fun interview got me talking about some of the BPO's future projects, including an exciting one based on Rod Serling's "Walking Distance."
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Binghamton Philharmonic appoints new executive director
Binghamton, NY – The Binghamton Philharmonic announces the hiring of new full-time Executive Director, Paul Cienniwa. Effective, April 16th, 2020, Mr. Cienniwa will replace acting director Andrea Carey, who is relocating to Pennsylvania. Mr. Cienniwa holds a Doctorate of Musical…
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Jubilate Youth Choir
One of the things that excited me about taking the position at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Delray Beach, FL was the opportunity to create a youth music program from scratch. There was nothing in place! Now at the end…
Read moreTelemann CD featured in Strings Magazine
While not a review, Strings Magazine featured a nice profile of my violinist/collaborator Dorian Komanoff Bandy with a good discussion of the source materials for our October 2018 CD release. Click here to read it.
St. Paul’s music director bids 2018 farewell with ‘Goldberg Variations’
St. Paul’s music director bids 2018 farewell with ‘Goldberg Variations’
December 29, 2018 By Greg Stepanich for Palm Beach Arts Paper
It’s said that the insomniac Count Hermann von Keyserling, an ambassador from Russia to the royal court…
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New Release: Telemann Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, Frankfurt, 1715
Telemann
Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord
Frankfurt, 1715
Dorian Komanoff Bandy & Paul Cienniwa
Telemann (1681-1767) was one of music’s great mavericks, an aesthete with a restless mind and cosmopolitan tastes. During his nearly seven-decade career, he sampled…
Read moreKarl Henning's Op. 116
On August 19, 2018, I performed Karl Henning's Plotting (y is the new x), Op. 116 with excellent violinist Mei Mei Luo. The performance was recorded for YouTube, and you can view it here:
St. Paul’s marks 30 years of music
Paul Cienniwa will play Bach’s Art of the Fugue on the harpsichord at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. Photo provided
By Janis Fontaine
Music at St. Paul’s will celebrate its 30th season with a…
Read moreThe X Commandments
In late summer, I created an edition of "The X Commandments," John Farmer's 1592 setting of a versified Ten Commandments that appeared in "The Whole Booke of Psalmes, With Their Wonted Tunes, As They Are Sung In Churches, Composed Into…
Read moreFormer student performance
A former high school student from the Rhode Island Philharmonic Music School studied Brahms' Second Rhapsody with me this past spring. This YouTube video is of her playing it at Eastman a few weeks ago:
Fabulous!
Finding Faith: Music brought organist to God — and Delray Beach
Finding Faith: Music brought organist to God — and Delray Beach
Paul Cienniwa, who starts June 1 as St. Paul’s Episcopal Church’s music ministry director, says ‘music can touch people who aren’t religious. It’s…
Read moreCouperin's Kyrie
Back in the very early 2000's, I arranged the first Kyrie couplet from François Couperin's organ "Mass for the Convents." My arrangement, originally for organ alone, is a verbatim setting of Couperin's excellent part-writing with the addition of the text…Read more
Leaving New England
I will be leaving New England to begin a new position as Director of Music at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Delray Beach, Florida. The position begins on June 1, so I will be moving at the end of May.…Read more
A very nice book review
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…Read more
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…
Read moreSingalong 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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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.…Read more
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…
Read moreMusical 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).
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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
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Sonata No. 2
https://youtu.be/xCb0_mnouBg
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