News

09/08/2011

Gary Green, director of the Frost Wind Ensemble at the University of Miami Frost School of Music, has commissioned Point Blank (2012) for band, to be premiered in Winter 2012
08/24/2011

Paul will be Composer-in-Residence with the Detroit Chamber Winds during the 2011 - 2012 season
07/15/2011

Scordatura Music Society, Nicholas Leh Baker, director, has commissioned a new work for piano trio as a part of their 12x7 commissioning project featuring new works inspired by painter Greg Gummersall.
04/13/2011

Paul's Point Blank (2010) for large chamber ensemble, first performed by Alarm Will Sound, received an Honorable Mention in the 2011 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards.
03/21/2011

Paul was selected for the 2011 Cabrillo Conductors/Composers workshop which will feature his Point Blank (2010) arranged for chamber orchestra
09/26/2010

Paul was chosen as a winner of the Arthur and Mary Platsis Prize for work in Greek Legacy, at the University of Michigan
09/26/2010

Paul's Dani's Dance (2007) for piano trio was awarded second place in the 24th Annual Young Composer's Competition from the Austin Peay State University School of Music
05/23/2010

Making Visible, May 28 - June 13, 2010 / Marina Abramovic Institute West, San Francisco, CA
04/08/2010

Paul received a 2010 BMI Student Composer Award for Gradus (2009) for solo cello.
03/13/2010

Paul's El Mirador (2010) for wind ensemble was named the winner of the Pacific Symphony's American Composers Competition.
03/01/2010

Paul will be an instructor this summer at the University of Michigan Performing Arts Technology camp, July 18 - August 1, 2010)
03/01/2010

Paul will be in residence at the Marina Abramovic Institute this summer, May 28 - June 13, 2010, composing music for the "Making Visible" installation/performance, a collaboration with choreographer Folawole, San Francisco Ballet former Principal Dancer Muriel Maffre, and SF Ballet Principal Dancer Damian Smith.
02/20/2010

Paul will be attending the Mizzou New Music Festival this summer, and will compose a new work for Alarm Will Sound, to be premiered at the festival.
02/26/2009

Paul received the 2009 Michigan Music Teachers Association (MMTA) Commission.
03/28/2008

Paul was chosen for a 2008 Morton Gould ASCAP Award for his piano trio Dani's Dance (2007)
03/08/2008

Paul was awarded second prize in the 2008 Pioneer Valley Symphony Competition. Fellow Michigan M.M. student Takuma Itoh was awarded first prize.
02/11/2008

Paul was chosen to be a Composition Fellow for the Aspen Music Festival Composition Master Class with Christopher Rouse and Sydney Hodkinson, in Summer 2008.