Jennifer Paull

Jennifer Paull is a hautboïste born in 1944 in the United Kingdom. Graduate of the Trades of Art, Doctor of Philosophy, this soloist devoted his career to the oboe de amore. Many type-setters wrote for it. Let us quote inter alia: William Blezard, Edwin Carr, Wilfred Josephs, John McCabe, John Rushby-Smith, Harold Schiffman and Leonard Salzedo. Jennifer Paull discovered the world of the music whereas it was child. Thanks to the benevolence of an enlightened and patient professor, it began its musical studies with the piano. At eight years it was attracted by the oboe but turned finally to the choir singing, the violoncello and the organ without for that giving up the piano. One day however, its dream was carried out. It attended a concert with the Royal Academy of Music in London losqu' it discovered the oboe de amore through a part of Jean-Sebastien Bach. It was the spark which will lead Jennifer to devote forty years of its life to this beautiful almost forgotten instrument of general public. Besides it will remain only the soloist in the world which devoted its career exclusively to the cause of the oboe de amore. Although having had many stations in prestigious orchestras both in England and in Europe like hautboïste and specialist in the oboe de amore (Symphony orchestra of the B.B.C., English Chamber orchestra, Orchestrates Philharmonic of Rotterdam etc), the orchestral repertory did not correspond to its waitings because its instrument was anything else only one occasional guest. It did not find its place in these formations which however sometimes could emphasize its instrument when all the conditions were met. It then decided pousuivre its studies and obtained a Doctorate in Philosophy. It specialized then and was rewarded for its original work in the field for musical pedagogy. Besides one will note his study on the disorders of the training and the syndrome of overload (synesthesia). It declared besides at the time: “The lens through which I view my subject is one of has musician who delights in the juxtaposition and oneness of all of the Arts: to their comparison to my own and the very lack of separation and division between”.