Paul Shipper, recorder, bass vocals & guitar, is a Grammy-nominated singer, instrumentalist and stage director. In his confused career, he has performed in all 50 states and 17 countries with early music groups such as Tragicomedia, Pomerium, The Harp Consort, Piffaro, ARTEK, and Early Music New York. He is a founding member of Ex Umbris and Ensemble Viscera, and also performs regularly with El Mundo. In the opera world he has sung feature roles from Monteverdi to Berlioz, and has directed and devised gestures for colleges and regional opera companies including Mannes School of Music, Bronx Opera, Juneau Lyric Opera (Alaska) and The NY Continuo Collective, with whom he is also a vocal and instrumental coach. As well as his concert work on vocals, lute, guitar, recorder, flute, winds and percussion, he can be heard on over 50 CDs and LPs and on soundtracks for PBS, HBO, Showtime’s hit series ‘The Tudors’ and various bad horror movies.