Michael Paul

Voice Teacher

Michael Paul is a New York-based private voice teacher and specialist who is on the voice faculty of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. This season some of his star pupils, Jennifer Rowley, Brian Jadge, and Michael Chioldi, to name a few, sing principal roles at the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington National Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Teatro Colon, Teatro alla Scala, Deutsch Oper Berlin, English National Opera, Teatro San Carlo, and The Mariinsky Theater. His students have been prize winners in the Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Auditions, Richard Tucker Awards, Operalia, International Tchaikovsky Competition, George London Awards, William Mattheus Sullivan Grants, and many others. His emerging professional students are regularly accepted into the American and International young artist training programs such as the Merola program and Adler fellowship at San Francisco Opera, La Scala’s young artist program, Santa Fe Opera’s apprentice artist program, The Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist program at the Washington National Opera, The Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and others. 

Michael began his studies at SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music in music education. Upon graduation from the Westminster Choir College in vocal performance, he received a fellowship in vocal chamber music at the Aspen Music Festival. He was a well recognized Oratorio and Chamber Music singer in the greater Metropolitan area. He furthered his vocal education with a clinical internship at the Vox Humana laboratory at the Head and Neck Surgical Group affiliated with Roosevelt Hospital in New York with Dr. Anat Keidar CCC-SLP and Dr. Anthony Jahn. Michael has served on the faculty of Washington National Opera’s Domingo–Cafritz Young Artist Program and a frequent masterclass artist for organizations as far ranging as the Moscow Choral Academy, Elena Obraztsova Foundation, and Minnesota Opera. In 2006 Michael founded, Masterclass Ischia, which is a technical vocal training program for professional and entry-level professional opera singers, as well, he is an advisor and a referral teacher for several prominent artist agencies, theaters, and medical professionals.