Cellist Gwen Krosnick, who joined the Cassatt Quartet in 2022, has appeared across the world as recitalist, chamber musician, and exuberant advocate for music. She is known for her luminous voice; her smoldering intensity; and for her deep, burnished palette of sounds at the cello. Krosnick’s recent projects include the Boston Beethoven Cycle at Pucker Gallery: a chronological journey of the complete Beethoven string quartets with contemporary works interspersed, curated with her violinist colleague Ari Isaacman-Beck. She has played recitals across the East Coast and Midwest, both alone and with pianists Qing Jiang, Daniel Walden, Lee Dionne, and Emely Phelps. Krosnick’s current and recent seasons include dozens of premieres and major performances of contemporary music, including solo works by Jeffrey Mumford, Richard Wernick, Lei Liang, Ralph Shapey, Elliott Carter, Charles Wuorinen, Roger Sessions, Donald Martino, and Sofia Gubaidulina; and chamber music by James Lee III, Zhou Long, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Dylan Schneider, Chen Yi, Shulamit Ran, Tania León, Ezequiel Viñao, and Dorothy Rudd Moore.

Krosnick was the founding cellist of Trio Cleonice, with which group she performed across the United States, Europe, and Asia from 2008 to 2016. Cleonice was in residence at the New England Conservatory from 2011 to 2014; gave frequent premieres and championed lesser-known works of the piano trio repertoire; and began an acclaimed community concert series, Trio Cleonice & Friends, which presented monthly mixed chamber music programs – ranging from Bach’s Musical Offering to world premieres – to a devoted regular audience.

Gwen Krosnick is a double-degree graduate of Oberlin College and Conservatory, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Russian alongside her cello studies; her Master of Music degree is from New England Conservatory. Her teachers included Natasha Brofsky, Vivian Weilerstein, Roger Tapping, and Donald Weilerstein at NEC; Darrett Adkins and Brian Alegant at Oberlin; and Seymour Lipkin and Laurie Smukler at Kneisel Hall. Krosnick has taught at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Vivace Cello Festival, New England Conservatory Preparatory Division, the New York Youth Symphony Chamber Music Program, and Junior Greenwood; and given masterclasses at institutions such as Eastman, Bard, Oberlin, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and Duke. Krosnick now teaches at Kneisel Hall, where she has served as Artist-Faculty since 2019.

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