Thomas Paul

The celebrated basso Thomas Paul has been widely acknowledged as one of the most vocally gifted and musically versatile singers of his generation. Since his Carnegie Hall debut in 1961, he has distinguished himself with enduring international success in an enormous operatic, oratorio, and contemporary chamber music repertoire.

Over a long and far-reaching career, he has been a frequent guest soloist in performances and recordings with the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and Philadelphia Orchestra, and other major orchestras of the United States and Canada. Abroad, his engagements have included Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Mannheim, Zurich, Kiev, Helsinki, Beijing, and Shenyang.

Major recordings include works by Bach, Beethoven, Beach, Berlioz, Carter, Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Rands, Schoenberg, and Varese, earning a Grammy nomination for Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Christ with the Juilliard String Quartet on SONY Classical, performed at Carnegie Hall and recorded at the Library of Congress.

Professor of Voice at the Eastman School of Music for three decades, Paul has been a frequent guest artist with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra since the 1960s.