Jennifer Paull
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Born | Jennifer Irène Schulcz 24 November 1944 Liverpool, England |
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Jennifer Irène Paull is a musician, writer, author, and publisher.
Jennifer Paull was born in
Career
Jennifer Paull is an oboe d'amore (alto oboe) soloist. Her career has been spent in researching, instigating, commissioning and publishing repertoire for the oboe d'amore and subsequently, the other rare members of the oboe family of instruments. Her aim has been to make this virtually forgotten instrument into a contemporary recital voice, not uniquely one of the Baroque with which it was virtually exclusively associated when she began this mission during her studies at the Royal College of Music, London (1964). Edwin Carr was the first international composer to write for her during the late 1960s and others followed as she became known for her specialisation and her acclaimed performance as a soloist. Insufficient material had existed before her pioneering work to sustain a recital career on the oboe d’amore.
She quickly became established as an oboe d'amore expert, in particular with the
Jennifer Paull gave recitals in Great Britain and Europe with John McCabe, who composed both Concerto for Oboe d'amore and Chamber Orchestra and Dance-Prelude (for oboe d'amore and piano) for her. The duo were honoured to give the première of this piece (commissioned by the Merseyside Arts Council and the City of Liverpool) at a Royal Gala Performance in the presence of
Working in
In 1995 Jennifer Paull recorded The Oboe d'amore Collection Volume I, the first ever CD devoted exclusively to the oboe d'amore: The Oboe d'amore Collection Volume II and The Amoris Consort were recorded in 1996. A further CD, including the
Donation
In 2009, Jennifer Paull donated her entire Amoris International library of publications to the Werner Icking Music Archive (WIMA), which has since been linked to International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), also known as the Petrucci Music Library.
Personal life
Jennifer Paull, a synaesthete, has four children, two daughters and two sons; Patrick Hufschmid, the celebrated guitar builder and plectrier[2] and Pascal Hufschmid, an art historian and world-renowned expert on Photography, currently the Director of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva. She lives in Switzerland near the French border in a wine-growing village not far from Montreux.
Writings
Jennifer Paull has written many articles for specialist double reed society magazines and others, in particular the classical music magazine, Music and Vision Daily, now Classical Music Daily.
Her book, Cathy Berberian and Music’s Muses was published by Amoris Imprint in 2007.
In the spring of 2020, she was asked by the New Oboe Music Project to write a piece explaining how she had undertaken her pioneering mission. This article, Oboe d’amore: Mission Impossible, was published in four parts throughout the month of June of that year:
Part I, Part II, Part III, Part lV.
References
- ^ Jennifer Paull's family links to Felix Mendelssohn and Arnold Schönberg sourced from geni.com.
- ^ "Hufschmid Guitars". Hufschmidguitars.com.