Paul Laurence Fletcher

Vocal Coach & Staff Singer

Baritone Paul Laurence Fletcher and his wife Jessica moved to Oklahoma this past year from Connecticut, where Mr Fletcher regularly appeared in repertoire ranging from oratorio and opera to recital and chamber music with many leading performing organizations in southern New England and New York.A featured guest soloist with such ensembles as Orchestra New England, the American Classical Orchestra, and the Hartford, New Haven and Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestras, Mr. Fletcher was chosen by National Medal of Arts recipient Morten Lauridsen to record the CD premiere of the composer’s dramatic solo setting of A.E. Houseman’sBe Still My Soul Be Still, as well as the solo version of Lauridsen’s popular O Magnum Mysterium on Voce’s critically praised collaboration with the composer, Sure On This Shining Night. American Record Guide judged these solo performances to be “superb,“ finding the recording as a whole to be “absolutely stunning.”

A member of Actor’s Equity Association, Mr. Fletcher has performed leading and supporting roles in productions at Lamb’s Theatre (Times Square), Theatre 315 (New York City), Hartford Stage, Downtown Cabaret Theatre, Theatre on the Green, Ivoryton Playhouse, Shubert Opera, Opera Theatre of Connecticut and others. His professional credits include the roles of Tony (West Side Story), Macheath (Threepenny Opera), Lancelot (Camelot), Emile (South Pacific) and Don Quixote (Man of La Mancha).

Mr. Fletcher’s extensive experience as a professional ensemble singer includes multiple European tours and Anglican cathedral residences in England and Scotland, and he was one of six baritones/basses from across the United States selected from auditions in late 2011 to form the bass section of a new professional ensemble, the Yale Choral Artists, conducted by Jeffrey Douma, whose inaugural program of music by Handel was presented to critical acclaim in Carnegie Hall’s 2012 Zankel Hall series.

An honor’s graduate of Abilene Christian University, Mr. Fletcher won a full scholarship/graduate assistantship to the Hartt School at the University of Hartford (MM in Voice with distinction), where he took first prizes for operatic performance as well as in the La Voix Poetique art song competition, and was featured in master classes with Bidu Sayao and Marlena Malas. He is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and teaches privately in Oklahoma City and online.

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