Introducing New Guest Artist & Teacher

Paul Shipper

Paul is singer, instrumentalist, actor and opera director...is a former faculty member of Mannes College of Music and the New School. He is a founding member of music ensemble, EX Umbris, has toured with Tragicomedia, The Mark Morris Dance Group, The New York Baroque Dance Company among many others, and brings his expertise teaching voice and music.

Paul has performed in all 50 states and 17 countries with early music groups such as Pomerium, The Baltimore Consort, Hesperus, Concert Royale, Early Music New York, The Folger Consort, Piffaro, Artek and many others.

Paul's concentration will be on voice production for both speaking, singing, diction and playing simple instrumental music from the Commedia dell'Arte period using both wind and string instruments.

In the opera world he has sung feature roles from Monteverdi to Berlioz, and devised gestures and stage direction for The New York Continuo Collective, as well as colleges and regional opera companies.

Paul can also be heard on the soundtracks of various bad horror films, and along with fellow Ex Umbrians, in Showtime and PBS mini-series and educational programs.

Paul's next directing projects are Blow's Venus and Adonis, and The Marriage of Figaro for Juneau (Alaska) Lyric Opera. Other upcoming projects feature Puccini, Rossini, and Mozart opera roles, and Bach, Handel and Mendelsohn oratorios.

Instruments which Paul Shipper plays

Renaissance lute, Baroque & Renaissance Guitar,
Cittern,
Theorbo,
Baroque Flute,
Recorder (masters degree),
Whistles,
Shawm,
Bombard,
Renaissance Bagpipe,
Pipe and Tabor,
Tambourine,
Frame Drums,
Side Drum,
Bones,
Castanets,
Scaccia Pensieri
and Paul Sings Bass.