Paul Phoenix directs Boswil Choral Summer Academy 2019

July 26 – August 2 2019

Following on from last year’s successful inaugural Choral Summer Academy in beautiful Boswil, the Künstlerhaus Boswil has announced the 2019 Academy. With space for 30 singers the Academy mixes singing workshops with performances and social events. Led by Paul and his associate Dominic Lam, the repertoire stretches from study and performance of music from the Renaissance right up to newly written works, including pieces written specially for the 2018 Summer Academy composition competition.

Click here to find out more about joining Paul, Dominic, and other singers from around the world in this unique location and atmosphere.

Paul Phoenix sings Christmas

Guest soloist with Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen

Billed as a “Kaleidoskop-Konzert”, Paul is the guest soloist on December 13th with the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen and Chief Conductor Fawzi Haimor. In a celebration of Christmas, the wide-ranging repertoire includes music by Tchaikovsky, Irving Berlin, Leroy Anderson and Paul McCartney. Also included is “Child of a Stable” by Thomas Hewitt Jones, which is part of Paul’s album “Journey”.

Tickets for the concert are available here.

Keep up with everything Paul is doing at his Facebook page, and at www.purplevocals.com

Paul Phoenix in USA throughout January

Paul and PurpleVocals in Texas, Minnesota, Philadelphia and Tennessee.

Paul Phoenix is spending the month of January in the USA with 4 very different projects. The month starts in San Antonio, TX, working as a faculty member of the inaugural Alamo Baroque Festival. Paul will be performing music composed around the time San Antonio was founded, including Purcell, Handel and others. He has already given a performance of French baroque music in front of the Alamo (pictured).

Paul has a special affinity with the music of American composer Libby Larsen, with whom he first worked as a member of The King’s Singers. He will sing with the Schubert Club of Minneapolis St Paul in a concert featuring pieces which Libby has written as companion music to comic strip cartoons and other visual media. The program includes “The Fantom of the Fair” which illustrates a story of the superhero in action at the World’s Fair, “The Peculiar Case of Dr. H.H. Holmes” for baritone & prepared piano with projected drawings, and “Love Tamer” with reconstructed comic strip illustrations. See more here.

Paul is a regular visitor to the Philadelphia Boys Choir and he will be working and performing with them in a residency as part of he choir’s 50th anniversary year.

And to end the trip Paul will be visiting Maryville College, TN where he is a regular visitor. You can read more about his work as artist in residence there here.

As always you can follow Paul and Purple Vocals at his website, www.purplevocals.com, and on social media.

Paul Phoenix November roundup

Paul and PurpleVocals travels

Paul has a month which is not untypical, in that he will be working in 5 countries. At the start of the month he was in Shanghai, China, giving workshops and performing for the Elite Education Group. The rest of the month has him reconnecting with European friends in Brussels, Arezzo, Leeds and Madrid, offering his expertise to student soloists and ensembles, to amateur choirs, and to businessmen in professional development sessions.

As we close in on Christmas you can hear Paul singing seasonal tracks in his “Journey” album, released on the Edition Peters Sounds label. Buy it from Amazon here.

See more of what Paul and PurpleVocals are up to at his website and his Facebook pages.

Paul Phoenix Celebrates Five Decades of Song in China

Celebrating five decades of music making, Paul Phoenix begins a new decade with a 9-day tour of China this week, giving performance coaching and singing in Shanghai, Shenyang and Shenzhen, further deepening ties between PurpleVocals and south-east Asia. Following the visit, singers and audiences can find him in Germany between April 21-23, and in the USA between April 27 – May 1.

As always, you can follow Paul on his PurpleVocals Facebook and Twitter pages, or his website www.purplevocals.com.