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Staff Contact Information
Dr. Paul Cienniwa, Executive Director
pcienniwa@binghamtonphilharmonic.org
Phone: 607-723-3931 ext. 4
Lesley McClelland, Operations Manager
lmcclelland@binghamtonphilharmonic.org
Phone: 607-723-3931 ext. 5
Brian Nayor, Director of Sales and Development
bnayor@binghamtonphilharmonic.org
Phone: 607-723-3931 ext. 2
Dr. Julia Grella O'Connell, Director of Education and Community Engagement
j.grella.oconnell@binghamtonphilharmonic.org
Phone: 607-723-3931 ext. 3
Alex Shapiro, Marketing Consultant
Phone: 607-484-7774
Scott Smith, Box Office Assistant
Phone: 310-659-3567
Danielle Rogers, Graphic Design
Staff Biographies
Dr. Paul Cienniwa, Executive Director
Paul Cienniwa has been Executive Director of the Binghamton Philharmonic since April 2020. As an arts administrator and performer, he founded Newport Baroque Orchestra, led Music at St. Paul's (Delray Beach, FL) into its 32nd year of chamber music, and was Chorus Master of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra. As a church musician, he has served several historically important churches, including First Church in Boston and Trinity Church (Newport, RI), and he is currently organist at Christ Episcopal Church, Binghamton. He was awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale University in 2003.
Lesley McClelland, Operations Manager
Lesley began working as Librarian for the Binghamton Philharmonic in 2021 and joined the office in 2023 as Marketing and Publications Coordinator. A classically trained oboist, she is a graduate of Ithaca College (BM '97) and has previously played in the Altoona and Williamsport Symphonies, as well as being a current member of the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes. Lesley owns a small sheep farm in Owego, NY, where she has lived since 2008.
Brian Nayor, Director of Sales and Development
Brian Nayor has been a proud Binghamton Philharmonic team member since November of 2016. He moved to the Southern Tier in 1999 as a student at Binghamton University, where he earned his B.A. in English in 2003. As an actor, small business owner and long-time advocate for both the arts and Downtown Binghamton’s revitalization, Brian feels blessed to lend his talents, passions, and life experience to one of the region’s most prominent institutions. In his various roles with the Philharmonic, Brian has met, befriended, and served countless music lovers at over 100 concerts and shared the organization’s ever-evolving story in their ask campaigns, brochures, program books, and over dozens of grants.
Dr. Julia Grella O'Connell, Director of Education and Community Engagement
Julia Grella O'Connell is an award-winning music historian and educator. She has taught at Hunter College, The City College of New York, and SUNY Broome, where she created the college's first course on Black American music history. Her innovative project-based work in music education for all ages has received grants from the SUNY Broome Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Broome County Arts Council, and she has worked as a curriculum consultant for the music departments of Illinois State University, Utah Valley University, and Cambridge University. She has published numerous articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century music, and her book, Sound, Sin, and Conversion in Victorian England, won the 2019 Diana McVeagh Award for Best Book on British Music. She received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2009.