Paul Cienniwa Bach series

Paul Cienniwa, harpsichordist, and violinist Dorian Komanoff Bandy will present “Bach Explored,” a recital series focusing on different aesthetic facets of Bach’s musical language, surveying its roots in music of his contemporaries and forebears. Recitals of violin sonatas will take place at the New Bedford Art Museum, 608 Pleasant St., New Bedford, Massachusetts, Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. on October 1 (“Bach the Dionysian”), January 29 (“Dark Visions”), and April 8 (“Bach the Apollonian”). 

Cienniwa is chorus master of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra, directs the chorus at Framingham State University, and teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. As organist and conductor, he is music director at First Church in Boston, where he leads the fully professional First Church Choir and can be heard weekly on WERS (88.9 FM) Boston.

For information: http://paulcienniwa.com/itinerary.