Paul Robinson
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 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 joined Edvard Grieg Vokalensemble at the start of 2015 and singing 2nd tenor. He is the Musical Director of the Vokalensemble and an artistic director of Edvard Grieg Korene.