Joel Krosnick (born 1941) is an American cellist who has performed as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician throughout the world for over 40 years.
There was so much recorded and live chamber music in his home that by the time Joel was twelve years old, he had played most of the Classical and Romantic piano trio literature with his mother and (now professional) violinist brother, Aaron.
The connection with the music of his time has become a lifelong passion for Krosnick and has led to premieres and performances of the works by such composers as Roger Sessions, Elliott Carter, Charles Wuorinen, Ralph Shapey, Richard Wernick, Stefan Wolpe, Perry Goldstein, Milton Babbitt, Paul Zonn, Donald Martino, Stanley Walden, and Morton Subotnick.
With his sonata partner of over twenty years, pianist Gilbert Kalish, Krosnick has performed recitals throughout the United States and Europe.
In 1984, Krosnick and Kalish gave a six-concert retrospective of 20th-century music for cello and piano at the Juilliard theatre and at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.[1] With Gilbert Kalish, Krosnick has recorded for Arabesque Records the Complete Sonatas and Variations of Beethoven and the Sonatas of Brahms, as well as works of Poulenc, Prokofiev, Elliott Carter, Hindemith, Debussy, Janáček, and Henry Cowell.
In January 2001, he played the concerto by Sir Donald Francis Tovey in three performances with the Jupiter Symphony with Jens Nygaard conducting.