PAUL DWYER, CELLO
German-American cellist Paul Dwyer enjoys a varied career as a musician and beyond. He has served as tenured Assistant Principal cellist of Lyric Opera of Chicago, Principal cellist of Music of the Baroque, and is a founding member of the Diderot String Quartet and ACRONYM. He has served on the faculty of Notre Dame University and Oberlin Conservatory’s Baroque Performance Institute, among others. Paul was born in Munster, Indiana, but spent the most formative years of his life (according to Freud) in Vienna, where he decided to play the double bass, but was told he’s too small. At age eight his family moved to Munich, where Paul spent most of his time playing soccer, running subversive school newspapers and transcribing Metallica songs for a heavy metal cello quartet he formed with his best friends. In 12th grade, he made his opera debut singing the role of Polyphemus in Handel's Acis and Galatea. Paul strove to get better at the cello and learn more stuff at Oberlin Conservatory (Bachelor of Music), Juilliard (Masters of Music in historical performance) and the University of Michigan (Master of Music & Doctor of Musical Arts). He also spent a year back in good old Europe as a Fulbright Fellow in Amsterdam, delving into contemporary music with Frances-Marie Uitti and baroque cello with Anner Byslma. In 2023 he completed an MBA at University of Chicago Booth School of Business.