San Francisco Bach Choir: Musicians

Picture of Paul Flight Paul Flight, a noted conductor and singer, is in his seventh season as principal conductor of the Madison Early Music Festival (WI), at which he has directed masterworks by Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi, Purcell, Tallis, and Francisco Guerrero. Flight is the newly-appointed Artistic Director of the California Bach Society, and he is also founder and Artistic Director of The Haydn Singers, a Bay Area chamber choir that performs the music of Haydn, Mozart, and their contemporaries. Paul has twice been a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, directing the University's top choral ensembles. He recently conducted the operas Savitri by Gustav Holst and Les malheurs d'Orphée by Darius Milhaud for Mills College, and he has conducted productions of Telemann's Der geduldige Socrate and Handel's Acis and Galatea for the San Francisco Early Music Society. Paul Flight received his doctorate from Indiana University, where he studied conducting with Robert Porco. His research focused on the Venetian composer Giovanni Croce (1557-1609) and he has recorded a program featuring the music of Croce for Harmonia, a nationally syndicated radio show.

An accomplished countertenor, Paul made his Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra debut under Esa-Pekka Salonen in December 2005 in John Adam's oratorio El Ni–o, and he has sung the work for the Norwegian State Opera (Oslo), the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and at the Ravinia Festival (Chicago). In May he returned to LA to sing the US premiere of Unsuk Chin's Cantatrix Sopranica with the Philharmonic, and will perform the work with the Berkeley Symphony under Kent Nagano in April 2007. His portrayal of Philip Glass' Egyptian pharaoh Akhnaten received glowing reviews from the San Francisco Chronicle. Flight's interpretations of 18th-century operatic and concert repertoire have also been critically acclaimed: he sang the title role in Handel's Solomon for the Sacramento Early Music Society, and the title role in Karl Heinrich Graun's opera Montezuma. Paul has recorded for the Dorian, Harmonia Mundi, and Glissando labels.



		Musicians Paul Flight Guest Conductor Paul Flight, a noted conductor and singer, is in his seventh season as principal conductor of the Madison Early Music Festival (WI), at which he has directed masterworks by Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi, Purcell, Tallis, and Francisco Guerrero. Flight is the newly-appointed Artistic Director of the California Bach Society, and he is also founder and Artistic Director of The Haydn Singers, a Bay Area chamber choir that performs the music of Haydn, Mozart, and their contemporaries. Paul has twice been a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, directing the University's top choral ensembles. He recently conducted the operas Savitri by Gustav Holst and Les malheurs d'Orphée by Darius Milhaud for Mills College, and he has conducted productions of Telemann's Der geduldige Socrate and Handel's Acis and Galatea for the San Francisco Early Music Society. Paul Flight received his doctorate from Indiana University, where he studied conducting with Robert Porco. His research focused on the Venetian composer Giovanni Croce (1557-1609) and he has recorded a program featuring the music of Croce for Harmonia, a nationally syndicated radio show. An accomplished countertenor, Paul made his Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra debut under Esa-Pekka Salonen in December 2005 in John Adam's oratorio El Ni–o, and he has sung the work for the Norwegian State Opera (Oslo), the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and at the Ravinia Festival (Chicago). In May he returned to LA to sing the US premiere of Unsuk Chin's Cantatrix Sopranica with the Philharmonic, and will perform the work with the Berkeley Symphony under Kent Nagano in April 2007. His portrayal of Philip Glass' Egyptian pharaoh Akhnaten received glowing reviews from the San Francisco Chronicle. Flight's interpretations of 18th-century operatic and concert repertoire have also been critically acclaimed: he sang the title role in Handel's Solomon for the Sacramento Early Music Society, and the title role in Karl Heinrich Graun's opera Montezuma. Paul has recorded for the Dorian, Harmonia Mundi, and Glissando labels.

Musicians

Paul Flight

Guest Conductor