B.A., M.A., PhD

Paul has enjoyed singing from an early age, when he was a chorister at St George’s Chapel, Windsor. He spent his GAP year singing at Hereford Cathedral before reading music at the University of York, achieving a BA and MA. For the last six years he has been a member of the Choir of York Minster, and has just completed a doctorate in music at the University of York.

He directs two vocal ensembles, the Ebor Singers (based in York), and Harmonie Universelle, which have both appeared in the York Early Music Festival, and he has also sung with Corona Coloniensis, a German specialist early music choir, and Red Byrd. Currently he is Publications Research Officer for the York Early Music Press, based at the University of York and runs his own music type setting business, PGMusicTips.

He enjoys listening to jazz, funk, and the film music of John Barry, drinking real ale, browsing the bookshops of Hay-on-Wye, and wandering aimlessly round Paris.

Publications

The Development of the French Few-Voiced Continuo Motet, c.1610-1660.

PhD thesis. University of York (2002)

Editor, York Early Music Press

William Lawes: Psalms to Common Tunes. (2002)

Jean-Baptiste Boesset: Masses. (2002)

Jean-Baptiste Boesset: Motets. (2002)

Charles d’Helfer: Masses. (2002)

Discography

Desolata Est. Ebor Singers. 2001.

In pace in idipsum: music for Compline. Ebor Singers. 2002.

I was glad: music for the Coronation. Ebor Singers. forthcoming

William Lawes: psalms. Harmonie Universelle. forthcoming