PAUL ROBINSON
TENOR

Paul read music and was a Choral Scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, where he had been a boy chorister. He continued his stu dies at the Royal College of Music and was awarded a number of prizes including the Countess of Munster, Wolfson Foundation, Sybil Tutton and RCM Opera Scholarships. Since becoming a tenor he has stu died with Diane Forlano.

Concert performances have included Bach’s St John Passion (Chri stu s) for the London Bach Festival and with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers in Vancouver and his debut at the Wigmore Hall with Malcolm Martineau. Paul has performed Mozart’s Coronation Mass with the Royal Flanders Philharmonic Orchestra, Purcell’s Indian Queen and Dioclesian with the Academy of Ancient Music, at the Barbican Centre and in Paris, and Handel’s Messiah with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

He has broadcast on BBC radio and his recordings include Wood’s St Mark Passion on ASV, Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols for BBCTV and he also appears on Volume 31 of the Hyperion Schubert series, singing a setting of Psalm 91 in Hebrew. He has recorded Purcell’s Ode to St Cecilia and Mendelssohn’s version of Bach’s St Matthew Passion for Radio della Svizzera Italiana (RTSI) in Lugano, Switzerland.

Recent engagements have included recitals in London, Glasgow and Tel Aviv; Handel’s Messiah and Mozart’s Requiem in King’s College, Cambridge; Haydn’s Missa Sancti Nicolae and Schubert’s Magnificat with the Philharmonia at the Royal Festival Hall, London, Britten’s Cantata Misericordium with the Bochum Symphoniker, Handel’s Solomon and Theodora in Darmstadt and Frankfurt, and concerts in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Shizuoka, Japan.

July 2006



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