Gwen Krosnick

Cellist Gwen Krosnick has appeared across the world as recitalist, chamber musician, and joyous advocate for music. Her career spans devoted chamber music playing and solo cello recitals; teaching, writing on music, and concert presenting; and countless premieres and performances of contemporary music. Krosnick is known for her ecstatic and luminous voice; for a deep, burnished palette of sounds at the cello; and for her fierce technique that etches gestures, colors, and bass lines with arresting conviction.

Gwen Krosnick was the founding cellist of Trio Cleonice, with which group she played for eight years across the United States, Europe, and Asia. With Cleonice, Krosnick spent three years in residence at New England Conservatory, commissioned new works for piano trio, and began a critically-acclaimed community concert series, Trio Cleonice & Friends. Most recently, Krosnick was from 2021 to 2025 the cellist of the Cassatt String Quartet, with which group she worked closely with composers such as Tania León, Victoria Bond, and Joan Tower, championing their music as well as that of Dorothy Rudd Moore, Florence Price, and dozens of other composers whose backgrounds have traditionally been underrepresented on classical music stages.

Krosnick’s 2025-2026 season includes solo cello recitals focused on works by Tania León, Donald Martino, Aaron Wolff/Chet Baker, J.S. Bach, Ralph Shapey, and Milton Babbitt; passionate teaching; and founding and Artistic Directing a new Westchester chapter of the non-profit Music For Food.

Krosnick has twice served as Visiting Professor at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and has given masterclasses there and at Eastman, Oberlin, Cleveland Institute, and Duke; since 2024, she has served on the faculty of Columbia University’s Music Performance Program. During the summers, Krosnick teaches at Kneisel Hall.