Michael Paul:
CLASS OF 1983
South Glens Falls High SchoolClass of 1983
South glens falls, NY
Westminster Choir College of Rider UniversityClass of 1993
Princeton, NJ
Crane School of MusicClass of 1986
Potsdam, NY
Michael's Story
Michael Paul's professional students perform in both national and international venues, in opera, oratorio, lied, and musical theater. Mr. Paul graduated from the Westminster Choir College. He has furthered his education with a Fellowship in Vocal Chamber Music with the Aspen Music Festival and did studies at SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music. He completed an extensive clinical internship in Vocology with world-renowned voice experts Dr. Anat Keidar and Dr. Anthony Jahn of the Head and Neck Surgical Group affiliated with Roosevelt Hospital of New York.
Michael's students perform regularly at venues such as the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Washington Opera, Covent Garden, Deutsch Oper Berlin, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Communale in Florence, the Welsh National Opera, Opera Australia, Baltimore Opera, Dallas Opera, The Florida Grand Opera, Connecticut Opera, and the Portland Opera. More regional venues and festivals include the Aspen Music Festival, Ashlawn-Highland Festival, Chautauqua Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Lake George Opera Festival, Des Moines Metro Opera, Kentucky Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Opera Southwest, the Pensacola Opera, Tulsa Opera, the Palm Beach Opera, and the Santa Fe Opera. On Broadway his students have performed principal roles in The Phantom of the Opera, Flower Drum Song, Jane Eyre, Marie Christine, Miss Saigon, Les Miserables, and the Lion King.
Mr. Paul's students have been prize winners in competitions such as the Metropolitan Opera Competition,the Gerda Lissner Foundation, the Palm Beach Opera Competition, the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Competition, the New York Oratorio Society Competition, the Opera Index Awards, The George London Awards, Heinz Rehfuss Singing Actor Awards and The Florida Grand Young Patronesses of the Opera Competition. His students also perform regularly in concert venues such as Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Town Hall, and many other recital venues and are accepted regularly into the major American opera apprentice programs.
As a soloist, Mr. Paul is widely recog...Expand for more
nized as an oratorio soloist in the New York Metropolitan area specializing in the works of Bach, Handel, and Mozart. Operatically he has performed with the Spoleto Festivals, here and in Italy, the Lake George Opera Festival, Opera d'Estate and The State Opera Theater in Trenton. His Teachers have included David Adams, Floyd Callahan, Giovanni Fontana, and Ellen Lang. He has served on the adjunct faculty for Queens College and is affiliated with Washington Opera's Domingo Cafritz Young Artist program.
He has given masterclasses and lessons for the young artists programs at the Chautauqua Opera, the Lake George Opera Festival, The International Lyric Academy, Florida Grand Opera and The Schnittke Center under the Schnittke Institute of Music in Moscow. His teaching has engaged him in masterclasses at educational institutions from the Crane School of Music to the University of Memphis and the Moscow Conservatory, where he has recently completed a series of Masterclasses for the RIA International Vocal Development Program.
He also regularly presents lectures for the Mannes School of Music's Graduate Seminar and Columbia University's Doctoral program on issues ranging from male vocal production to career development. He was a featured speaker on the New York Singing Teachers' Association's bi-annual Vocal Symposium 2002 lecturing on retraining the injured tenor voice. He has served as Director of Programming for the New York Singing Teachers' Association, and is a frequent judge and adjudicator for various competitions and panels. He was a member of the advisory board to the Washington Choral Ensemble under William Usher's leadership. He has given several radio and television interviews and masterclasses for organization's like NPR, the Mezzo channel and Gfartig's weekly classical music radio hour. During the previous 5 summers he served on the faculty of the New Opera Festival di Roma's International Lyric Academy and serves as Artistic Director of Opera Ischia. He is an advocate for the gradual development of the young singing voice and specializes in working with rehabilitating injured voices.
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