Paul is a musician based in Switzerland. Paul plays the cello, piano, bass guitar, and clarinet. None of them particularly well. He likes to walk through nature, though he doesn't do it much. 

Paul listens to all kinds of music. He dislikes Phillip Glass. Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker inspired him to compose for dancers. He hopes to learn how to dance as well.

He loves to write, though he prefers to arrange and play music with friends. Otherwise he’s having a drink at a bar. When he was younger he took lessons in harmony, counterpoint, and conducting at the Basel-Musik Akademie. He doesn't remember much of it.

From time to time he conducts new and (very) old music with various ensembles.

Paul finally completed his first degree. He studied composition under Mathias Steinauer, Olav Lervik, Till Löffler, German Torro Perez, and Kaspar Ewald, theory under Andreas Brenner, and Johannes Schild, and conducting under Iwan Wassilevski.

He wants his lifelong task to be to bridge the gap between serious music and music for entertainment. His dream is to unify styles where fragments of serious music and fragments of music for entertainment would not just be scattered about frivolously but would be the elements of a diverse musical reality.

Before studying music he kind of studied Physics, but he’s not sure if it counts.

He’s a member of JODOQ.


"Paul is one of the most outstanding talents we've met... Remember that name, Paul is already making his mark and I have no doubt he'll do great things in ALL of the musical genres he's interested in."

- Nan Schwartz (Grammy Award Winning Composer)

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