Paul Honey

Paul Honey (composer) began his musical career as a chorister at Westminster Abbey, where he sang daily in the choir. He is a graduate of the University of Southampton, where he studied music history, composition and orchestration.

Early on in his career he worked primarily as a pianist and keyboard player, performing and recording as far afield as Australia, Japan, North America and Europe. However, in the last few years he has concentrated on working as a composer, initially for Film and TV before shifting his focus to composing solely for live performance.

Paul has composed music for a wide variety of productions for all the major UK broadcasters and in 2023 he was nominated for a Royal Television Society Award and a Music and Sound Award for his score for the documentary feature The People’s Piazza: A History of Covent Garden.

Most recently, he has been working in collaboration with Gregory Warren Wilson on a series of works for voice together with various ensembles, much of which forms the substance of this new CD. Their fruitful creative partnership continues with a collection of comic cabaret songs for tenor and piano, and in complete contrast, a ‘Dramatic Oratorio’ for solo voices, chamber choir and orchestra about the life of Britain’s last hangman, Albert Pierrepoint.