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…

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’ 

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…

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…

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:

by The Coastal Star 

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…

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…

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 

by The Coastal Star 

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…