Paul Plummer was educated at New College, Oxford where he gained the FRCO and a BA degree, before attending the Guildhall School of Music and Drama as a post-graduate student of piano accompaniment in 1995. He has studied with Andrew Ball, Graham Johnson, Malcolm Martineau, David Owen-Norris and Roger Vignoles, and in the summer of 1997 was the Wilhemina Sandwen Fellow in vocal coaching and accompaniment at the Tanglewood Music Centre. From 1998 to 2000 he was Geoffrey Parsons Junior Fellow at the Royal College of Music where he is now busy as an accompanist and coach of singers at all levels.

Described in the European press as a “superb accompanist...with remarkably imaginative interpretations”, “with great possession” (The Glasgow Herald, The Independent), "able and sensitive" (Bonn General-Anzeiger), his work with singers has taken him across the UK and further afield. He has performed with singers of the calibre of Stephen Roberts, James Bowman and Henry Herford. Along with the CD Carte Postale (with Simon Gay, Cardinal Records), he has recently made a CD of English song with the tenor Mark Wilde. Recent concert engagements have included playing the piano solo in Constant Lambert’s The Rio Grande, performing with the Orchestra of St. John’s Smith Square in Le Bal Masqué (Poulenc) and playing alongside David Owen-Norris in Carmina Burana for the Oxford Bach Choir. Other events have included recitals at the Royal Opera House (Linbury Studio Theatre), the Swaledale Festival, and Canterbury Sounds New festival (in a recital with James Bowman), adjudicating the piano competitions at various public schools and making a CD of Jewish music with "Laudibus". Work for Radio 3 includes an invitation concert appearance with Lontano and the BBC Singers, a recorded Purcell Room concert, and a full studio recital with the soprano Rachel Nicholls. Recitals in 2002-3 include engagements with Thomas Guthrie at the Purcell Room and Burgh House, Hampstead (for the British Association of Pyschotherapists), a Little Missenden Festival recital with Eamonn Dougan, and a programme of English Song for the Three Choirs' Festival 2003 with the tenor Nathan Vale.

He has since December 1996 also been the regular pianist for the ensemble Cantabile with whom he has toured Italy, Turkey, Germany and Holland as well as frequently performing in UK venues including the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Leeds Civic Theatre, and - before an audience of more than 40,000 - in the 1998 Proms in the Park. In December 1999 he played for the group in 15 cabaret performances at the Bar jeder Vernunft in central Berlin. From 1997 to 2002 Paul was Director of Music at St. Stephen's Church, Gloucester Road, where besides running the church's liturgical music he established the church's renowned "Rush-Hour Recital Series". He is also the Musical Director of the West London Vocal Ensemble with whom he has recently given concerts in central venues of Prague and Vienna.

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