Gwen Krosnick Cellist

Cellist Gwen Krosnick has appeared across the world as recitalist, chamber musician, and exuberant advocate for music. She is known for her ecstatic and luminous voice; for her incisive, smoldering intensity; and for her deep, burnished palette of sounds at the cello. Her artistry, concert programming, and teaching center joy, immediacy, daring, and emotional connection between audience, players, and composers. Krosnick was the founding cellist of Trio Cleonice, with whom she performed to widespread acclaim across the United States, Europe, and Asia from 2008 to 2016; and most recently became the new cellist of the NYC-based Cassatt String Quartet, which group – founded in 1985 – focuses both on serious, joyful reimaginings of standard quartet repertoire and on a huge range of contemporary music, including by composers whose backgrounds have traditionally been underrepresented on classical music stages. In addition to an active life in chamber music, Krosnick’s concert seasons include recitals of solo contemporary American cello music and teaching, in the summers, at Kneisel Hall in Blue Hill, Maine.

Gwen is a recent transplant to northern Westchester, and lives in South Salem with her rescue Australian Shepherd dog, Anya. She is a virtuoso home cook, a tea drinker, and a passionate reader (an impromptu visit to the Katonah Reading Room, on her first real estate jaunt, made her suspect that she was on the right track): especially of contemporary literary fiction (especially by women of color); love poetry of all ilks; and long, long-form novels, the last in what is perhaps a throwback to her college major in Russian.