Paul Sottnik
Songwriter ~ Accompanist
Paul is like a salad of leafy dance accompanist with a side of songwriter and a light vinaigrette of jazz and musical theater. He writes songs about familiar things like cafes, gardening, mythical creatures and the oppressive tyranny of the capitalist machine. He lives in Chicago, studied piano at SUNY Fredonia and is a multi-instrumentalist.
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Contact
Austin, TX
631 624 1995
paulsottnik@gmail.com
My new EP Venus de Mango is streaming now on all platforms!
(click the cover photo above)
Discography
Argo 2020
Sandalwood and Gasoline 2020
Ballet Music for Cosmic Circumstance 2020
Lapis / Tourmaline 2019
Mela Two 2019
Still Talkin' 2018
Supermarkets 2018
Music Box Mind 2018
The Everythingness 2017
MELA 2016
MANAGER OF SOTTNIK MUSIC
creating projects since 2015
MUSIC DIRECTOR / PIANIST
“Ballad of Left and Crabbe” (Workshop) Understudy Theater 2019
“Barney the Elf” Pride Arts Center 2018
“A Charlie Brown Christmas” Buffalo’s Theater of Youth 2017
“Guys and Dolls” 17’ and “Beauty and the Beast” 18’ at Catherine O’hara HS
“Beauty and the Beast” and “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Please Change” Cobblestone Arts Center 2017
“Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat” 16’ at Theater in the Mist
"420 The Musical" 2016 and 2017
BALLET CLASS ACCOMPIANIST
AUSTIN, TX 2021
Dance Institute
CHICAGO, IL 2018-2021
Common Conservatory
Chicago Movement Collective
Visceral Dance Center
Ruth Page Center for the Arts
Hubbard Street Dance
Chicago High Scool for the Arts
Hyde Park School of Dance Chicago, IL
Chicago Ballet Arts
Dance Works Chicago
Ballet Chicago
BUFFALO, NY 2016-2018
University of Buffalo
ASOCIATED ENSEMBLES
Mela Ensemble
Soulfire and the Eternal Flame Austin, TX
Trust This Ghost Chicago, IL
Ponder Buffalo, NY
All'amore Jamestown, NY
The Everythingness Buffalo, NY
Bobby Skrzypek and the Pedestrians Western, NY
All'amore Jamestown, NY
PERFORMANCE VENUES
810 Meadworks Medina, NY
Bucktown Garden Festival (2019) Chicago, IL
Caffeine Underground NYC
Daily Planet Cafe Buffalo, NY
Davenport's Piano Bar Chicago, IL
Erie Maritime Museum Erie, PA
Funk and Waffles Syracuse, NY
Gallery Cabaret Chicago, IL
Hotel ZaZa Austin, TX
Infringement Festival (2017) Buffalo, NY
La Macchina Evanston, IL
Lot 10 Ithica, NY
Merge Buffalo, NY
Mohawk Place Buffalo, NY
Mojo's Jamestown, NY
Nietzche's Buffalo, NY
Parish Public House Albany, NY
Pausa Art House Buffalo, NY
Petterino's Chicago, IL
Piano's NYC
Radio Bean Burlington, VT
Slyfest (2017) Western New York
Starry Night Cafe Rochester, NY
Stone Church Nermarket, NH
Sylvie's Chicago, IL
The 9th Ward Buffalo, NY
The Basement Long Island, NY
The Bug Jar Rochester, NY
The Cavern Toronto, ON
The Elbo Room Chicago, IL
The Gypsy Parlour Buffalo, NY
Uncommon Ground Chicago, IL
Wine on Hertal Buffalo, NY
PERFORMED ON
"Sticky Gumbo" by Cyndi Stark 2021
"Before We Go..." by Trust This Ghost 2020
"Mela Two" 2019
"The Everythingness" 2017
"Mela" 2016
"Gin and Yonic" by Yonic 2015