Paul's Bio
Paul Shipper is a singer, instrumentalist, actor, and director. A founding member of Ex Umbris, over the years he 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. He now performs regularly with El Mundo and Apollo's Fire, and appears on their upcoming CD. He has also recently toured with Tragicomedia and The Harp Consort.
An experienced dance and theater accompanist, he has toured extensively with The Mark Morris Dance Group,The New York Baroque Dance Company, created videos for Tampa Dance Project, and played live for dozens of Shakespeare and other Elizabethan and Jacobean plays and masques. 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.
His 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. He 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.
Contact
Paul can be reached by email at: paul@paulhshipper.com.