Paul read music and was a Choral Scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, where he had been a boy chorister. He continued his studies 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.

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 Beethoven’s Mass in C in Bergen; Frederic Pirates of Penzance in Buxton and Cheltenham and Edwin Trial by Jury for Tiramisu Opera, 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; 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.