From Kilmarnock, Paul trained with Norman Bailey CBE at the Royal College of Music.   For Scottish Opera he has sung Sacristan Tosca, Theseus The Minotaur by Julian Evans, Scientist in Lyell Creswells’ The Perfect Woman and covered Alberich Der Ring des Nibelungen.  For the Opera House of La Scala, Milan and The Royal Opera, Covent Garden he has understudied Parsons in 1984 by Lorin Maazel.  For English National Opera he has sung the role of Teddy Foran in Mark Anthony Turnage’s The Silver Tassie and covered The Poacher in Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen, Michel in Martin Butler’s A Better Place, Raevsky and Denisov in Prokoviev’s War and Peace. In Nov 2008 Paul created the role of The Father in The World Premier of Skellig by Tod Machover at the Sage, Gateshead and  El Chofer Loco in Letters of a Love Betrayed with Music Theatre Wales.  For Opera West (Norway), he recently sang Hamlet in the World Premier of Ophelia by Henrik Hellstenius.  Other roles include Der Bauer Schubert Des Teufels Lustschloss for Opera de Nancy, Marcello La Boheme Leporello Don Giovanni Monterone Rigoletto Aeneas Dido and Aeneas and The Forester in The Cunning Little Vixen with the Opera Project at Longborough, Scarpia Tosca with European Chamber Opera, New Devon Opera, Opera a la Carte and with the University of Kent, Alberich Das Rheingold with the Mastersingers, Jochanaan Salome in concert, Toreador Carmen in Glasgow’s West End Festival Water Sprite Tchaikowsky Cherevichki at Wexford, Masetto Don Giovanni at Holland Park, Roderich in Dvorak’s Vanda for University College Opera, Edgar in the British Premier of the opera Vision of Lear at the Linbury Studio Theatre and Ghost of Virgil Rachmaninov Francesca da Rimini and Servant Rachmaninov The Miserly Knight with Chelsea Opera Group.