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Tenor, 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 expert Dr. Anat Keidar and Dr. Anthony Jahn of the Head and Neck Surgical Group affiliated with Roosevelt Hospital of New York. |
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Mr. Paul's students perform regularly at venues such as the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, San Francisco 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 Po rtland 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, 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. |
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Mr. Paul's students have been prize winners in competitions such as the Metropolitan Opera Competition, the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Competition, the New York Oratorio Society Competition, the Opera Index Awards, the Di Capo Opera Competition, Heinz Rehfuss Singing actors 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. His students are accepted regularly into the major American opera apprentice programs.
As a soloist, Mr. Paul is widely recognized 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, Rome's 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 Vilar Young Artist program. 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 has given masterclasses and lessons for the young artists programs at the Chautauqua Opera, the Lake George Opera Festival, and the Florida Grand Opera. He also regularly presents lectures for the Mannes School of Music's Graduate Seminar and Columbia University's Doctoral program on issues of male vocal production. Last spring 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 is an advocate for the gradual development of the young singing voice and specializes in working with injured voices. During the summer he serves on the faculty of the New Opera Festival di Roma. |
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