Paul Wiancko

Paul Wiancko is an acclaimed composer, Director of Chamber Music at Spoleto Festival USA, and cellist of the Kronos Quartet, viola/cello duo Ayane & Paul, and quartet-collective “dream group” (NY Times) Owls.He has collaborated with artists ranging from Max Richter, Chick Corea, and Norah Jones—to members of the Guarneri and JACK quartets—to bands like Arcade Fire, Dirty Projectors, and Wye Oak. Wiancko’s own music has been described as “delicate, harmonically rich,” “joyous, hard-driven” (NY Times), “dazzling, compelling” (Star Tribune), and “vital pieces that avoid the predictable” (Allan Kozinn). He has been composer-in-residence at Spoleto Festival USA, Caramoor, Music from Angel Fire, Portland Chamber Music Festival, and numerous others, and has recently been commissioned by Alisa Weilerstein, Alexi Kenney, Brooklyn Chamber Music Society, and the St. Lawrence, Kronos, Aizuri, Calder, and Attacca Quartets.