Paul Cienniwa
Paul Cienniwa is an American harpsichordist, organist, and choral conductor. He is Director of Music Ministries at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Delray Beach, Florida. Before that, he was Music Director at First Church in Boston and Chorus Master of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra. He was on the faculties of the Music School of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, UMass Dartmouth, and Framingham State University. He has recorded for Albany Records and Whaling City Sound. He has collaborated with uilleann piper Jerry O'Sullivan, recorder player Aldo Abreu, and violinist Rachel Barton Pine.
Life
Cienniwa was born in Niles, Illinois in 1972. He completed his undergraduate at DePaul University in 1994. He then attended the Yale School of Music, where he earned a M.M. in 1997, a M.M.A. in 1998, and a D.M.A. in 2003. His principal teachers were harpsichordists Roger Goodman and Richard Rephann and organist Jerome Butera.[1]
Discography
- Allison: Volume One (2015)
- Harpsichord Music for a Thin Place (Whaling City Sound, 2012)
- Larry Bell: In a Garden of Dreamers (Albany, 2012)
- O'Sullivan Meets O'Farrell (2010)
- Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba (Whaling City Sound, 2009)
Publications
- By Heart: The Art of Memorizing Music (2014)