MUSIC and CONCERT PERFORMANCE:

At age five, Paul found the piano-sound to be mesmerizing, then with piano lessons he began his journey into music. During high school Paul played bass, drums, piano and trombone and attended two Stan Kenton jazz workshops. He graduated with a major in graphic arts and is in the hall of honour at Thomas A. Stewart Secondary School. This was the first sign of his interdisciplinary approach to the arts. At seventeen Paul began formal music study at Humber College in Toronto and at nineteen he was invited to play bass in the Brian Browne trio. Browne was the 1974 Canadian songwriting award winner — Paul began performing with him five nights a week while learning repertoire from the great American songbook.

Paul has now performed with jazz luminaries Cedar Walton, Geoff Keezer, Kenny Wheeler, Scott Hamilton, Jo-Anne Brackeen, Lynn Arrial, Richard Wyands, Moncef Genoud, Junior Mance, and Don Thompson. He has accompanied singers Roger Whitaker, Molly Johnson, Tabe Johnson, Jackie Richardson, Susannah McCorkle, Trudy Desmond, Alana Bridgewater, Michael Dunston, Carol Welsman, Barbra Lica, and David Clayton Thomas. As a studio bassist, he played on the 2018 platinum selling video game soundtrack Cuphead .

In 2016 Paul began leading his own ensembles and released his jazz duo recording titled Look Ahead, with Robi Botos. The Hi-Def 24/96 surround-sound version is distributed in Germany by highresaudio.com. German magazine Audio-Test declared Look Ahead to be "A Diamond of Modern Sound" and referred to Paul as "The Highly Doped Canadian Bassist."

Look Ahead establishes Paul as a concert bass artist with recent performances at Huntsville's Algonquin Theatre, The Waterloo Uptown Jazz Festival, Showplace (Peterborough), The Leith Summer Festival, The Elora Summer Festival and The Burlington Performing Arts Centre.

SCREEN-MEDIA:

In 1991, Paul founded The Audio Producers Inc. to create music & sound for screen-media. Selected music commisions in film, television and advertising include: — (Film) Blue Monkey, Dixie Lanes and Mishka — (TV) the orchestral 2001 CBC-National News theme, George Stroumboulopoulos's CBC-The Hour, CBC News Now and Ikea's Space for Living — (Advertising) Susuki, Mattel, Pepsi, Novartis, ASUS, CN Tower, IBM, Mastermind Toys, Stanley Tools, Velamints, Purolator, Mazda, CIBC and Scotia Bank.

Paul also has extensive experience with audio-post re-mixing and mastering in immersive 5.1 surround-sound. Recent documentaries and short films in 5.1 include Cleo Tellier's film The Silence, (45 international festival awards) and Mishka (18 million views on YouTube). Paul also mixed Gord Downie's Secret Path, (CBC Doc's) Spurred On (The Battle of Passchendaele) and the feature length documentary, Global Sunrise Storyteller, which premiered at the United Nations. He has mixed approximately 1000 TV episodes: Jiggy Jump (CBC Kids) Holmes on Homes, (HGTV) Candice Tells All, Get Colour, (W Network) Stylin' Gypsies, Moving The McGillivrays, House of Bryan, Maple Leafs Outloud and Brojects. Sports doc's for TSN include, The Extra Yard (Oilers Entertainment & The Toronto Argos) Making History, Touch 'em all Joe, What If, Too Many Miracles, Odd Couple and Double Play (Blue Jays). He is a certified Apple-mFit (mastered for iTunes) mastering engineer who has mastered dozens of music recordings including music from the Agha Khan 2017 Diamond Jubilee and Dave Bennett's 2017 release Blood Moon for Mack Avenue records.

RECORD LABEL:

In 1994 Paul and Joe Sealy started Triplet Records Inc. Paul is the label A&R producer, bass artist and vice president. By 1999 Triplet achieved three Juno nominations (Sealy/Novotny-Dual Vision, Carol Welsman-Lucky To Be Me, Sealy/Novotny-Blue Jade) and a 1997 Juno win for Joe's Africville Suite. In 2009 Paul and lyricist Dan Hill collaborated to write The Railway Porters Song, a tribute to three Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR) porters, Jackie Washington, Daniel Peterson (Oscar Peterson's father) and Joseph Maurice Sealy (Joe's father), all who worked on The Canadian. It was released on the 2009 Sealy/Novotny recording Songs and sung by Jackie Richardson, Jully Black and Dan Hill. Triplet continues to release high quality music and has international distribution via The Orchard - Sony Music.

ACADEMIA:

Paul received support from the Toronto Arts Council in 2015 to compose a suite for jazz orchestra. He titled the suite Humanasonics because it is inspired by anthropological human universals, a topic which cultivated extensive research at York University and resulted with his MA in June 2017. Soon after graduation from York, Paul was invited to the International Art of Record Production conference (ARP2017) in Stockholm-Sweden to present a new paper — his autoethnographic case-study detailing the making of Look Ahead in Hi Definition (24/96) 5.1 surround-sound and mastered for iTunes (MFiT). The paper is now published in the conference journal JARP, establishing Paul as a musicological author in The Art of Record Production. Paul's ARP2017 presentation was supported by Canada Council for the Arts. Paul is now a 5th year doctoral student at York University and his research is focusing on DIY Music Production and Dolby Atmos. Paul teaches Composition, Songwriting, Music Production, Mastering, Bass, and Music Business. Paul was on the faculty of Mohawk College for 6 years, Humber College for 14 years, and is now on the faculty at Centenial College.

Paul is endorsed by HHB Communications Canada.

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