Program Books/Paul Wiancko

Paul Wiancko

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Paul Wiancko is a composer, cellist, and serial collaborator. A member of Kronos Quartet since 2023, he succeeded the late Geoff Nutall as Artistic Director for Chamber Music at Spoleto USA. Wiancko is the first composer to hold either position. Praised as a “multifaceted talent” with a “singular voice” by the Washington Post, Wiancko has composed, arranged, and performed in a dramatically large range of genres, collaborating with artists including Max Richter, Chick Corea, Norah Jones, Dirty Projectors, The National, Wye Oak, and the Aizuri, Guarneri, JACK, St. Law­rence, and Kronos Quartets. www.paul­wiancko.com.