Paul Whelan (Baritone)
Born in New Zealand, Paul Whelan studied at the Wellington Conservatoire and then when on to the Royal Northern College of Music in England, where he won several prestigious prizes and scholarships. In 1993 he won the Lieder Prize in the Cardiff ‘Singer of the World’ competition.

He pursues an active concert and recital career. Engagements have included concerts under Rattle, Bertini, Nagano, Hickox, Menuhin, Siniasky, Olmi and Willcocks. He has performed with many leading UK orchestras, as well as the Budapest Symphony Orchestra. He has given recitals at the Wigmore Hall, St David’s Hall Cardiff, the Blackheath Concert Halls, the Cheltenham Festival, for BBC Pebble Mill, all accompanied by Julius Drake; and most recently at the Châtelet Theatre in Paris, accompanied by David Harper. Other recent recordings include A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the LSO under Sir Colin Davis and Kurt Weill’s Silbersee under Markus Stenz.