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Dr. Paul Flight is a noted choral conductor, teacher and singer. He is in his sixth season as principle conductor of the Madison Early Music Festival (WI), where he has directed masterworks by Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi, and Purcell, and he will return there this summer to conduct the music of Francisco Guerrero. 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.
In December Paul made his Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra debut in John Adam's oratorio El Niño, and he has sung the work for the Norwegian State Opera (Oslo), the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and at the Ravinia Festival (Chicago). His portrayal of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhnaten (Oakland Opera) 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.
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