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Paul
Elliott, tenor
Since his solo debut in England in 1972 Paul Elliott has performed with such world-class orchestras as The London Bach Orchestra, The Amsterdam Chamber Orchestra, The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, The English Chamber Orchestra and The London Mozart Players. He is perhaps more widely known for his performances of Early Music, having performed with European early music groups including The Academy of Ancient Music, The Early Music Consort of London, The London Early Music Group, Musica Antiqua Köln, The Deller Consort, Pro Cantione Antiqua and The Hilliard Ensemble, of which he was a founder member.Paul Elliott's discography lists over one hundred recordings of music ranging from Perotin to Weber. Amongst his best-known recordings are two CDs of Handel's Messiah and the video recording of that work filmed in Westminster Abbey and conducted by Christopher Hogwood. He also appeared in the TV series Music in Time hosted by James Galway, now a standard music-history teaching-tool in many U.S. colleges. Some more recent recordings include Proverb by Steve Reich for Nonesuch and Fragments, Hoquetus, The Age of Cathedrals and Monastic Song for Harmonia Mundi (USA).
Paul Elliott's solo debut in the United States was with Christopher Hogwood and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of Handel's Messiah at the Hollywood Bowl in 1982. Engagements since then have included appearances at the Kalamazoo Bach Festival, the San Antonio Festival in Texas, and concerts with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra as well as a production of Mozart's Idomineo staged in Chicago's Shedd Aquarium and many concerts of Messiah with The City Musick in Chicago, and in Toronto with the Canadian baroque orchestra, Tafelmusik.
Paul Elliott has a remarkably varied repertoire: he has toured Bach "Passions" with the London Bach Orchestra and with the Amsterdam Chamber Orchestra under Charles de Wolff in Holland, sung Handel's L'Allegro...with the San Francisco-based Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra under Nicolas McGegan, performed concerts of medieval and renaissance music at summer festivals in Barcelona, Ferrara and Nantes and in the Vancouver Early Music Festival, toured in the United States with songs by Beethoven and Schubert accompanied by fortepiano with Andrew Appel and Ensemble Four Nations, as well as performing early and contemporary music by Cage, Palestrina and Arvo Pärt with Theatre of Voices at the Opéra de Paris, the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. and in New York, Leipzig, Berlin, Rome, Milan and London. Today, he makes frequent appearances with the San Francisco-based vocal and intrumental ensemble Magnificat which specializes in music of the 17th century.
Paul Elliott has been a Visiting Lecturer at Washington University, St. Louis, and taught master-classes for Musique Sacrée à Notre-Dame de Paris. Paul Elliott is Professor of Music and Director of the Early Music Institute in the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and holds the CMVT (Certified McClosky Voice Technician) designation from the Boston-based McClosky Institute of Voice of which he is a past President. He is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and an Honorary Fellow (Hon FASC) of the London-based Academy of St. Cecilia.
Paul Elliott trains soloists and small chamber groups with special emphasis on appropriate performance styles and techniques in all periods of music. He is married to the viola da gamba player Wendy Gillespie. They divide their time between performing and teaching work in the United States and relaxation and European performances from their base in Nice, France.
Enquiries about professional engagements should be made directly to Paul Elliott.
Paul Elliott