Paul Sharp

Royal College of Music trained trumpeter

Paul Sharp played with the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland before taking up a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Music. He studied trumpet and natural trumpet with Michael Laird, Malcolm Smith and Mark Bennett, graduating in 1999 and winning the David Mason Prize for Trumpet.

As an orchestral player, he has played with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, English Chamber Orchestra and Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie.

Since 2000, Paul has played with the English Baroque Soloists and Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique. He performed in the year-long pilgrimage of all the Bach Cantatas, culminating in a broadcast concert in New York on Christmas day 2000. In 2003, he played with the ORR in their residency at the Châtelet in Paris in 2003 performing Berlioz’s Les Troyens. He played with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for their summer season at Glyndebourne in 2002 and with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in the 2005 summer opera season at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. Since the opening season of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in 1997, Paul has performed with the Musicians of the Globe every year providing music for their theatre productions.

A keen member of Alberti Brass, he has also performed with the Gabrieli Consort, New London Consort, English Concert, The King’s Consort, Academy of Ancient Music and Baroque Brass of London. Paul has toured extensively in Europe, USA, the Middle and Far East, performing in venues from St Mark’s Venice to the Carnegie Hall. He has recorded for BBC dramas, The Genius of Mozart, Beethoven Uncovered, Eroica and Venice.