Gwen Krosnick is a cellist, teacher, and writer based in New York.

Cellist Gwen Krosnick has appeared across the world as recitalist, chamber musician, and joyous advocate for music. Her career spans devoted chamber music playing, solo cello recitals, teaching, 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. She was a founding member of Trio Cleonice; she now teaches at Columbia University and Kneisel Hall.

  • “The concert’s lodestar was the trio’s cellist, Gwen Krosnick…Krosnick, who had a preponderance of the Quintet’s big melodies, played gorgeously throughout, and looked as though there was no place she would rather be.”

    — The Boston Globe

  • “[Gwen Krosnick’s] playing is marked by a passionate temperament and a strong, rich sound, as well as a formidable technique…Donald Martino's challenging, episodic Trio, written in 2004, was given a fully committed, expressive and enlightening reading, preceded by Krosnick's heartfelt championing of this compelling one-movement piece, which she compared to Italian opera.”

    – The Reading Eagle

  • “Gwen Krosnick proved a most expressive player…it was a brilliant and beautiful performance.”

    – The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus

  • “Watching the animated cellist Gwen Krosnick play makes a Cassatt Quartet concert worth the price of admission almost by itself.”

    – Blogcritics.org