NYFOS 2007-2008 Season:  Artist Bios

Paul Appleby, tenor

Tenor Paul Appleby is a first year master’s student at The Juilliard School.  Mr. Appleby’s opera credits include the role of Achille in the Juilliard Opera Theater’s production of Iphigénie en Aulide, Ferrando in Così fan tutte at the Chautauqua Institute, and Le Mari in Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias with Notre Dame Opera.  He made his debut with the New York Festival of Song this past January in the Juilliard-NYFOS collaboration, Songs of Peace and War.  He has sung many times with the South Bend Symphony, as well as in performances as tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Magnificat, and Haydn’s Harmoniemesse with the Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra. Upcoming performances include appearances with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in a concert of Bach cantatas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and his debut with the Opera Theater of St. Louis. Mr. Appleby graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2005 with degrees in music and English.  He has sung with NYFOS in Island Journeys (2007) and in No Song is Safe From Us (2007).  He also will be appearing in an upcoming televised NYFOS lecture/recital called The Chemistry of a Song.