🎵🎼🎵Hailed by the Roston Globe as “a firecracker of a pianist” and “master of his instrument” Karl paulnack has partnered vocal and instrumental soloists, chamber groups,orchestras, conductors and opera companies in nearly a thousand concerts throughout North America, Bulgaria, Estonia, France, Macedonia, Norway, Romania and Russia. Engagements of recent and current seasons include the festivals of Bard College, Madeline Island, Round Top, Royaumont, Sonic Boom and Tangle wood, as well as the Bridge, Noe Valley, Stillwater, Walker Museum, Williams College, UC Davis, UT Austin and University of Oregon concert series. He has appeared in concert at Alice Tully, CAMI, Carnegie, Merkin and Weil recital halls, and also at Tangle Wood’s Ozawa Hall,the Library of Congress and the Hollywood Bowl. His regular recital partners include violinist Jorja Fleezanis, soprano Lucy Shelton and numerous chamber ensemble. A frequent performer of new music, Paulnack has been privileged to work closely with many of the important composers of our time including John Adams ,Elliott Carter George crumb ,Karel Husa, steva Reich and Joan Tower in preparating performance s of their works. In describing the Tangle wood premiere of Elliott Carter’s “of Of Challenge and of Love” with Lucy Shelton,the Boston Globe’s Richard Dyar cited Paulnack’s “commanding” performance as “a standard to aspire to”. Paulnack has appeared as a featured guest on such public radio programs a St. Paul Sunday, Performance Today, and Morning Pro Musica ,as well as on Minnesota Public Radio and BBC Television.
🎵🎼🎵Recording of his performance may be found on the Koch, Seamus, Innova and Capstone Labels. Early in his career, Paulnack served as rehearsal pianist and musical assistant to conductors Sir Charles Grove, Christopher Hogwood, Kurt Masur, Sriji Ozawa, Otto Werner Mueller and Michael Tilson Thomas. With the Los Angeles Opera Theater, he was assistant/cover conductor for his mentor Henry Holt, and served on the opera coaching and conducting staff of University of Southern California (USC) and the los Angeles Philiharmonic Institute. His work in opera includes conduction and coaching position at several universities as well as the Tangle wood Music Center,Where he was a member of the team responsible for the historic 50th anniversary performance of Peter Grimes, an event marking Tangle Wood’s renewed commitment to opera in it’s Fellowship programs. Committed to a diverse comprehensive practice of collaborative musicianship as an artist teacher for more than two decades, Paulnack has served as music division director of The Boston Conservatory since 2002. He also serves as music director and conductor of the contemporary opera Lab of Winnipeg and chef de chant of the Orchestra de Picardie in Amiens, France. He co-chaired the highly acclaimed accompanying and coaching department of the University of Southern California, Ithaca College and Music Academy of the West. He holds an undergraduate degree in solo piano from Eastman and completed theM.M. and D.M.A. degree at USC , where his teachers included Gwendolyn Kolofsky and Brooks Smith.
🎵🎼🎵As an advocate for music and the arts, Dr. Paulnack is increasingly in demand as keynote speaker and lecture. His speech “Why Music Matters” ,has been translated into six languages and appeared on nearly 50,000 web pages, in print publications such as the Christian Science Monitor, and in the program books of numerous symphony orchestras and concerts series around the world. In spring 2009, Linda Ronstadt quoted his speech during her official testimony to the United States Congress on behalf of funding for the arts.
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