Paula Muldoon is a junior at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she is studying for a B.M. in violin performance and a B.A. in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She currently studies violin with Aaron Berofsky and is a member of the Grammy Award-winning University Symphony Orchestra (USO) under the direction of Kenneth Kiesler, which in February 2008 went on tour, performing at Oberlin Conservatory, Cornell University, and Carnegie Hall. With the USO, she also recorded Evan Chambers’ The Old Burying Ground, a song cycle for orchestra and singers. Her favorite orchestral memories at Michigan are playing in the operas Così fan tutte and La Bohème under Martin Katz..

In addition to her musical pursuits, Miss Muldoon has received many scholastic honors. She was awarded the William J. Branstrom Prize, for being in the top 5% of the freshman class. She has received University Honors all four terms, and was named a James B. Angell Scholar, an honor given to students with no grade below A-. She is considering writing her senior thesis on either 16th-century English poetry and madrigals or on sacred Tudor music.

Before college, Miss Muldoon attended the New England Conservatory Preparatory School, where she studied violin with Lynn Chang and Lilia Muchnik. She toured Spain and France with the Youth Symphony Orchestra, and Venezuela and Brazil while in the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of the world-renowned Benjamin Zander. In Falmouth, she conducted Schola Cantorum of Falmouth, a Renaissance a cappella choir which she co-founded. As director of Schola, she was interviewed on NPR’s The Point with Mindy Todd. She has played with the Falmouth Theatre Guild, the Falmouth Chorale, and the Woods Hole Cantata Consort and was a prizewinner in the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition.

In her spare time, Miss Muldoon enjoys writing fiction, reading, memorizing poetry, crosswords, Scrabble, drinking coffee, listening to, playing and analyzing music, and biking along the ocean.