About Wick

Wick is a cellist, composer, and artist who defies easy categorization. His work lives in visceral, yet carefully curated collaborations where music, fine art, kink, and trippy visuals merge into live performance.

He has developed a wide-ranging practice spanning performance, nightlife, and installation. His work has been presented internationally in galleries, theaters, and experimental art spaces across Europe and the United States including House of Blues Chicago, PLEX , The Tank NYC, The Owl, and Paris Fashion Week.

His recent array of innovative and experiential projects includes Exquisite Drones with Dutch Kills Theater Company, lauded by Jeremy Shatan of AnEarFul as “an extraordinary and multilayered piece for cello and electronics” inspired by the surrealist drawing game exquisite corpse, a live BDSM-inspired performance artwork Quiver for Circuit MOM and International Mister Leather’s “Victory Party,” and BUNKER, a multi-sensory installation exploring the hidden resonances of erotica in a wartime bunker with Helen Hines (FKA Kéké Søl) in collaboration with Berlin-based sex workers and Shibari practitioners. In 2025, he collaborated with renowned American performance artist Ron Athey on the “Darkness Visible II” workshop in Athens, Greece.

In 2017 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, MASS MoCA, The Greene Space, Carnegie Hall, on National Public Radio’s “From The Top” show, and throughout the USA as the onstage-cellist in the 10-Tony Award winning show, The Band’s Visit 1st Broadway National Tour.

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)

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.

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 Young Performing Artists Competition, a top prizewinner of the Samuel & Elinor Thaviu Competition for Strings. He is a recipient of the 2019 Anthony Quinn Foundation Fellowship, and has since been a recurring judge for the Foundation’s national competition and has served as a panelists for The Hambidge Center residency admissions in 2022.

At the age of nine, Wick began studying classical cello and became a student of Professor Hans Jørgen Jensen in 2012. He later 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 and an electric cello crafted by South African-based instrument maker Murray Kuun.