Paul is Musical Director of The Transports.
As a singer, oboist, violinist, composer and arranger Paul has performed and recorded extensively with BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards winners and nominees Bellowhead, Belshazzar’s Feast and Faustus.
Editor of the Bellowhead Songbook, and Hampshire Dance Tunes, Paul’s composition commissions include: The Seven Joys of Mary for the Choir of Somerville College, Oxford; The Hartlepool Monkey for Streetwise Opera, nominated for a BASCA award; and Kites, Cars and Cor Anglais, commissioned by BBC Radio 4 for the series Playing the Skyline. His latest publication is Community Choirs Folk, for Faber Music.
Since 2001 Paul has directed the Andover Museum Loft Singers, a non-auditioning community choir.
He was awarded a First for his Masters in Traditional Music, and in 2007 received a 75th Anniversary Award from the English Folk Dance and Song Society.