Paula Downes

Soprano

 

 

   
 

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Following an undergraduate degree in Music and a PGCE in Secondary Music Education, both at Cambridge University, Paula taught Music and Singing for three years at at one of the UK's leading Girls' Schools, South Hampstead High School. She moved to Boston, USA in 2005 to join her husband, while he completed his PhD in Musicology at Harvard University, and during her four years there, she worked as Resident Music Tutor at Adams House, Harvard, and as a singing, piano and violin teacher for Artisan Music Studios, for Linneaen Community School, and for the New School of Music in Cambridge, MA. Additionally, she taught Music Together, an early childhood music program. On her return to the UK, Paula worked as Head of Lower School Music at Haileybury College in Hertfordshire before moving on to teach Singing and Music at St. John's College School in Cambridge, UK.

Since having her baby, Penny, in 2011, Paula continues to teach Singing at St. John's College School, as well as occasionally teaching for String Moves. In addition, Paula teaches Singing, Violin to Grade 8 standard, Beginner Piano, Music Theory and GCSE and A Level Music at home in the evenings. Click for more information on times and fees.

 

 

 

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