Paula was awarded the Tagor Gold Medal from the Royal College of Music and won the Karaviotis Prize in the Les Azuriales International Competition and has performed on stages and concert platforms across the UK, the United States, and Europe. Paula was born in Tennessee and has since made the UK her home. She recently wrote a libretto for Aidan! a children’s opera which was premiered for English Touring Opera in Spring 2021. She is also a passionate singing teacher who has experience working in the NHS Voice Clinic.

Operatic engagements include Hanna Glawari The Merry Widow, Cunegonde Candide (Scottish Opera), the title roles in Lucrezia Borgia and Tosca, Tsaritsa of Shemakha The Golden Cockerel, Mimi La bohème, Elettra Idomeneo, Elle La voix humaine with English Touring Opera. Recent roles include Donna Anna Don Giovanni (Longborough Festival Opera), Giulietta Un Giorno di Regno, title role Thaïs (Chelsea Opera Group), Cunegonde Candide Iford Arts. As a concert soloist: Mahler 8th Symphony (Opera North Symphony Orchestra), Mahler 2nd Symphony, Strauss Four Last Songs, Rossini Stabat Mater, Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven Missa Solemnis and Mass in C, Dvořák Te Deum, Britten War Requiem (Southampton Philharmonic and London Mozart Players).

Last year she released a recording of Le voix humaine and has just recorded Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder coupled with works by Victor Ullman and Korngold. She will be reprising the role of Hanna Glawari this Summer at the Buxton Festival.