Paul Cienniwa has been appointed director of the Collegiate Chorale at Stonehill College, a liberal arts college in Easton, Massachusetts, founded by the Congregation of the Holy Cross. He will continue as chorus master of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra, choral director at Framingham State University, and director of music at First Church in Boston, where the professional First Church Choir can be heard weekly on WERS (88.9 FM) Boston.
From 2003–2010, he led Newport Baroque in works from Arne to Zelenka, including performances of Bach cantatas and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, and from 2006–2013, he led Sine Nomine choral ensemble. In 2009, he was music director for Boston Opera Collaborative’s acclaimed production of Handel’s Alcina. He received a bachelor of music degree from DePaul University, studying harpsichord with Roger Goodman and organ with Jerome Butera, and the doctor of musical arts degree from Yale University in 2003, where he was a student of Richard Rephann.
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