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

Highlights of Krosnick’s upcoming seasons include solo cello recitals focused on works by Tania León, Ralph Shapey, Donald Martino, James Lee III, and Dorothy Rudd Moore; quartet tours in the U.S. and Europe; premieres of new works by Joan Tower, Victoria Bond, and Christian Wolff; and – with colleagues Laurie Smukler and Qing Jiang – performing and recording the piano trios of Weinberg and Shostakovich.

Krosnick joined the Cassatt Quartet in 2022, and with her CSQ colleagues specializes both in joyful reimaginings of standard quartet repertoire and in a vast range of contemporary music – with particular emphasis on the music of women and other composers whose backgrounds have been underrepresented on classical music stages. Prior to joining the quartet, Krosnick was the founding cellist of Trio Cleonice, with which ensemble she performed across the United States, Europe, and Asia from 2008 to 2016.

Krosnick has served on the faculties of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, New England Conservatory Preparatory Division, and Junior Greenwood; and given masterclasses at Eastman, Oberlin, Cleveland Institute, and Duke. In Fall 2024, she joins the faculty of Columbia University’s Music Performance Program; she will spend the Spring 2025 semester as Visiting Professor of Cello at Oberlin Conservatory. During the summers, Krosnick teaches at Kneisel Hall, of which she is a longtime alumna, and where she has served as Artist-Faculty since 2019.

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