About Wick

Dubbed “the modern cellist” (Cello Sherpa) Wick uses his cello as a focal point at the intersection of music, art, and technology. On an international scale, his body of work spans creative-technology, theater, installation art, kink, improvisation, old and newer music.

Recent projects include collaborating with TISCARENO Studio for Paris Fashion Week 2023, an ongoing interactive installation of ropes and electric cellos with sound artist Kėkė Søl and friends of PREY Collective in an underground bunker in East Berlin, and writing music for GRAMMY award-winning vocalist Zachary James’ album “Song of Myself,” that was named “the classical project of the year” (Daily Music Spin).

He made his New York solo debut at Joe’s Pub at THE PUBLIC theater and has performed at The Kennedy Center, The Dolby, The Kitchen NYC, Constellation Chicago, Segerstrom Hall, The Paramount, MASS MoCA, The Greene Space, Carnegie Hall, on New Sounds, WQXR-WNYC, The Longy School of Music at Bard College’s “seen / unseen” digital series, on National Public Radio’s “From The Top” show, and throughout the USA as the cellist of the five “superb” (The San Diego Union Tribune) onstage musicians in the 10-Tony Award winning show, The Band’s Visit First Broadway National Tour.

His original productions “Wayang.” “Non-Verbal,” “Fugitive,” have premiered at The Owl Music Parlor, Access Theater, Spectrum NYC, Jack Crystal Theater, and profiled on with Second Inversion: rethink classical.

In 2022, his production “Exquisite Drones,” lauded by Jeremy Shatan of AnEarFul as “an extraordinary and multilayered piece for cello and electronics…” patterned after the surrealist drawing game “exquisite corpse” received its premiere at The Owl Music Parlor in Brooklyn, made in collaboration with composers inti figgis-vizueta, Conrad Tao, Wet Hands (Jack McGuire), and multimedia artist Laurie Olinder,

In 2019, Wick performed Resonant City: Venice by acclaimed Italian contemporary music composer Andrea Liberovici at The Italian Academy of Columbia University, a work for solo cello and electronics inspired by the music of Vivaldi to evoke the mysterious, fragile city of Venice. His performance of Cambodian composer Chinary Ung’s “Khse Buon” for solo cello is the featured soundtrack for “Holidays in Cambodia,” a documentary film about refugees of the Cambodian genocide.

He has worked directly with a wide range of artists artists including guitarist Mark Stewart, media artist Laurie Olinder, outdistanced Bassam Saba, director David Cromer, composers Conrad Tao, Chinary Ung, Jakhongir Shukur, George Lewis, inti figgis-vizueta, Andrea Liberovici, Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon, actors Daniel Pettrow, Sasson Gabai, and in a by chance pick-up performance with Laurie Anderson at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. He has performed with Shattered Glass, ACME: American Contemporary Music Ensemble, and members of the Silkroad Ensemble, Bang on a Can All Stars, and International Contemporary Ensemble.

He is the creator and host of the New Voices in Music Series, an interview series started in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic profiling some of the most compelling composers and improvisers of today. As a composer, he has scored and recorded music for TISCARENO Studio’s catwalk for Paris Fashion Week 2023, The BODYSONNET Dance Company, for Zachary James’ Album “Song of Myself,” and had his text piece “landline” performed as part of International Contemporary Ensemble’s “Collaborative Explorations" series with Raquel Klein in 2020.

He is the strings-division winner of the 2016 YAMAHA National Young Performing Artists Competition, a prizewinner of the Samuel & Elinor Thaviu Competition, The Samuel Fordis Concerto Competition, an Anthony Quinn Foundation Fellow, and served as a panelists for The Hambidge Center for the Arts & Creative Sciences.

He is a graduate of Northwestern University and the Manhattan School of Music and pursued private studies with violin-electronics virtuoso Todd Reynolds and cellist Jeff Ziegler from The Kronos Quartet. He has held artist residencies at The Hambidge Center, The Banff Centre for the Arts & Creativity, Kneisel Hall with Shattered Glass, and has performed in select festivals as The Bang on A Can Summer Music Festival Marathon, The Global Musicians Workshop, and attended The Heifetz Institute, Pinchas Zukerman’s Young Artists Programme, and The Bowdoin Festival. He performs on a Marten Cornelissen Cello that once belonged to the renowned cellist Bernard Greenhouse.