I improvise a lot every Sunday, but I don't often look back and listen. These two improvisations came from Sunday, August 27, 2023, and I like them!
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Audience art
Audience member Dan Sniezak created these images from yesterday's Art of Fugue performance!
The Phelps Mansion Hosts Performance By 2 Harpsichordists
Harpsicord concert at Phelps
Paul Cienniwa is joining his longtime collaborator Michael Bahmann to perform Bach’s The Art of…
Read moreGorecki Harpsichord Concerto with the Amernet String Quaret
I had great fun playing Henryk Górecki’s cheeky Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings, Op. 40 at yesterday's Music at St. Paul's concert. Click here to watch a video of the performance.
Bach Cantata 111 in Delray Beach
My Chancel Choir at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Delray Beach, FL sang an excellent service of Choral Evensong on March 3. Included in that service was Bach's Cantata 111.
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…
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:
Palm Beach Symphony gives glorious concert at Bethesda
By Mark Aliapoulios - Special to the Palm Beach Daily News
Posted: 4:01 p.m. Tuesday, March 13, 2018
The Palm Beach Symphony’s performance Monday night was vibrant and glorious.
Maestro Ramón Tebar led the orchestra in…
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Playing Bach in Boston
Last week, I played a short Bach program for Emmanuel Music's Lindsey Chapel Series in the stunning chapel. Photographer Steve Dunwell was there to document the pre-concert excitement:
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 moreOld 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 morePreparing 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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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.
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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…
Read moreFolk 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…
Read morePaul 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: …Read more
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: …Read more
So Nat, A Sonata
Yesterday at First Church in Boston, 'cellist Leo Eguchi and I performed Ellie Miller's So Nat, A Sonata:
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…Read more
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…Read more
Via Spector and serendipity, the harpsichord invaded pop
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…
Read moreTribute to Sandy Hook victims set to Obama’s words
By Stratford Star on December 14, 2015
Former Newtown resident Eleanor Miller composed a piece to pay tribute to the victims of the Sandy Hook shootings on Dec. 14, 2012. It uses text extracted and edited from…
Read moreThe Choir of First Church in Boston knocks it out of the park!
I'm in the midst of the best choral year I've seen in my ten years at First Church in Boston. This particular piece is a bit out of the scope of our regular repertoire, but it's sung so well, particularly…Read more
Warming up the choir
This photo was taken from the pre-concert warmup for Mendelssohn's Elijah with the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra in October 2015.
Music at First Church in Boston
In Gibbons’s ‘Cries,’ a social portrait, and a subtle warning
By Matthew Guerrieri Boston GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
By Matthew Guerrieri Boston GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
YALE CENTER FOR BRITISH ART
"Any Kitchen Stuff.”
Today, First Church in Boston offers a special service marking…
Read moreFirst Church Awarded 2015 Gian Lyman Silbiger Grant
Beacon Hill Times, August 14, 2015
Through the collaboration of violist da Gamba Carol Lewis and music director Dr. Paul Cienniwa, First Church in Boston, located at 66 Marlborough St., has been awarded the 2015 Gian Lyman Silbiger Grant…