Baritone Paul Laurence Fletcher studied music education, voice and composition at Abilene Christian University and won a full opera scholarship to The Hartt School, where he took top prizes in operatic and art song performance while earning his Master of Music Degree in Voice. In an extensive and diversified repertoire ranging from medieval songs and motets to Kurt Weill’s Threepenny Opera, he has regularly performed with leading southern New England ensembles and theaters to consistently enthusiastic reviews. As a featured concert and oratorio soloist he has appeared with Orchestra New England, the American Classical Orchestra, Yale Collegium Musicum, Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Pro Arte Singers and many others, with recent solo engagements including Messiah with New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Voce, Elijah with Greater Middletown Chorale and Eastern Connecticut Symphony Chorus, Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem on the Three Choirs Festival with Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Weill’s Walt Whitman Songs with Wesleyan University Orchestra, and Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs with Willimantic Symphony Orchestra. He can also be heard in Morten Lauridsen’s Be Still My Soul, Be Still and O Magnum Mysterium on Voce’s critically acclaimed recording made with the composer, Sure On This Shining Night.

Paul is a member of Actors’ Equity Association and has performed leading and supporting roles in productions at Lambs Theatre (Times Square), Theatre 315 (NYC), Downtown Cabaret Theatre, the Shubert Opera, Opera Theatre of Connecticut, Hartford Stage, Theatre on the Green, Ivoryton Playhouse and others, with Lancelot, Tony, Emile deBecque, Joe Hardy and Macheath among his credits. He is a soloist/section leader at Christ Church Cathedral in Hartford and also serves as Principal Vocal Coach for the Greater Middletown Chorale. He teaches privately and is on the voice faculty at Calvary Music School in Stonington. Paul, his wife Jessica and their twin 18-year-old sons Nathan and Zachary live in Middletown.

You can visit his website at www.paullaurencefletcher.com.