"Cellist prodigy""Extraordinary cello playing""Paul Wiancko not only nailed every note, he played with respect and sincerity.""Paul's voice is a shade above a whisper. His words are few; his pauses long...His music is sure and defined.""Paul Wiancko presented such a stunning reading of the allegro from Dvorák's cello concerto that [Yo Yo] Ma's first comment was: 'What are you doing tonight?' Ma himself was to play the piece later that evening.""Paul has an amazing pop sensibility that not many classical musicians have.""One of the most gifted classical musicians I've worked with."
"Paul never liked to practice...But when you're gifted and restless, and the playing comes easily, it's hard not to blow off the scales and etudes for a Public Enemy hip-hop CD.""Paul Wiancko’s Hip Hop Cello Concerto No. 1 is a terrific example of how when the composer understands both the hip hop and classical traditions and can write music that is simultaneously idiomatic to both styles, the result is surprising, fun, fresh, and even innovative...[Wiancko's] grasp of this hybrid area is clearly much stronger than most.""Paul Wiancko’s arrangement of [Radiohead's] Paranoid Android for four cellos is an excellent and very idiomatic arrangement of a piece well suited to the treatment."