Paul is a composer and researcher based in Sydney who specialises in
writing opera and music for the toy piano. He holds a Doctorate of
Creative Arts from Western Sydney University and is the co-artistic
director of Blush Opera. Paul has collaborated internationally and his
music and operas have premiered in Singapore, the UK, Italy, the USA,
and Armenia in addition to Australian festivals and concert
performances. In 2021, his largest operatic work, Chop Chef, a
collaboration with writer and satirist Julie Koh which explores reality
TV food competitions, was premiered in Parramatta at Riverside
Theatre. In 2018, Paul was an artist in residence with the Art and
Cultural Studies Laboratory in Yerevan Armenia, where he worked on three
new pieces for toy piano including an experimental chamber opera which
he premiered as a keynote performer at the Music as Play Festival in
Italy in 2019. He has collaborated with Italian toy piano specialist
Antonietta Loffredo many times and she has recorded his keyboard works
with the Australian label, Wirripang, as well as performing his music in
Italy. Paul was also a contributing writer to the ABC and triple j
digital series, What is Music?
