BealeCanto - Bass

Paul Murray

Paul is a native of Memphis, TN. He spent ten years in the Bay Area, receiving his MM in 2005 from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and performing many main-stage roles with various companies, including Opera San Jose, West Edge Opera, Livermore Valley Opera, Opera Bangkok, the Silicon Valley Symphony, the San Francisco Bach Choir, the San Jose Symphonic Choir, the Sonoma County Bach Choir, Chora Nova, the Mendocino Music Festival, and the Santa Rosa Symphony.

He has served on the faculty of CSU Fresno and Santa Clara University. Now back in Memphis, while pursuing a doctorate at the University of Memphis, he is adjunct faculty at Rhodes College, and is a member of the Rhodes Mastersingers and Beale Canto.

Paul Woodie Whited

Paul Woodie Whited, bass. Woodie Whited holds a B. M. from the University of Mississippi, and a M.M. from the University of Memphis where he was a Hohenberg-Scheidt young artist recipient. He has been teaching for 15 years and has taught K-12. Woodie currently is the Fine Arts Chair and Choral Director at Bartlett High School. His choirs continually receive superior ratings at regional and state festivals.