Paul Robinson
Tenor Paul Robinson joined Edvard Grieg Kor at the start of 2015, and is also the artistic leader for the a capella-projects.
Paul Robinson was both a boy chorister and a choral scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, where he read music. He continued his studies at the Royal College of Music and was the inaugural holder of the Mills Williams Junior Fellowship.
Solo concert performances have included Bach’s St John Passion 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 Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music; Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music with Sir Simon Rattle and CBSO and Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers and Handel’s Messiah with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
His recordings include Purcell’s Ode to St Cecilia and Mendelssohn’s version of Bach’s St Matthew Passion for Radio della Svizzera Italiana (RTSI) and a setting of Psalm 91 on the Hyperion Schubert series.
Other solo engagements have included Beethoven’s Mass in C in Bergen; 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. He was a company member of the Buxton Festival for four years during which time he understudied several roles including Handel’s Samson.
He is a member of the choir at Hampstead Parish Church in London, where he has performed the Evangelist in both the St John and St Matthew Passions of J.S. Bach. He joined Edvard Grieg Kor at the start of 2015 and sings 2nd tenor.
