Out of Darkness into Light

Paul PlummerOrganist

Paul Plummer was organ scholar at New College, Oxford before moving to London in 1995 to study piano accompaniment at the Guildhall School; he also attended courses at the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme. Whilst working and studying in London he was Director of Music at St Stephen’s Church, Gloucester Road, where he began and accompanied the weekly Rush-Hour Recital series; he also conducted the West London Vocal Ensemble (later “Hythe Singers”). In 2008 he moved to Germany to work as repetiteur at the opera house in Kiel; then from 2010‒12 served as Studienleiter (Head of Musical Preparation) at the Tiroler Landestheater, whose Intendantin (General Director) was mezzo-soprano Brigitte Fassbaender. Since 2012 he has been freelance again, and now lives in South London, working as a vocal coach privately, for the Royal Opera’s Jette Parker Young Artists’ Programme, and for various young singers’ programmes in Germany and Italy. Visit him at www.paulplummer.co.uk.