Paul D'Arcy

Paul D'Arcy

Paul D’Arcy is in demand nationally as a soloist, chamber musician, and professional chorister. As an oratorio soloist, he performs the works of Handel, Mozart, Bach, Mendelssohn, Haydn, Monteverdi, Schütz, and Zelenka as well as contemporary composers including premieres by Caroline Shaw, Benedict Sheehan, and Kate Moore. Solo performances include projects with the Austin Symphony, Tucson Symphony, and American Classical Orchestra as well as professional chamber, choral, and early music ensembles such as Artefact, True Concord, ensemble viii, Spire, Musica Sacra, Musica Viva, Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, Conspirare, Skylark Vocal Ensemble, and the Santa Fe Desert Chorale. 

D’Arcy is an avid chamber musician and choral singer. As a New York City based freelance musician, D’Arcy has had the opportunity to work with many of the city’s most celebrated ensembles and conductors. Concert performances include the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under Jap van Zweden, Musica Sacra and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine under Kent Tritle, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s under Pablo Heras-Casado, the American Classical Orchestra under Thomas Crawford, the choir of Trinity Wall Street under Julian Wachner, Musica Viva under Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez, the St. Andrew’s Music Society under Andrew Henderson, the Trident Ensemble, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra under Gustavo Dudamel. Other projects include performances with the New York City Ballet under Andrew Litton, National Sawdust, the Worldless Music Series at BAM, Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity Lutheran under Donald Meineke, recordings with Essential Voices under Judith Clurman, and the premiere of David Lang’s Mile Long Opera.

D'Arcy also travels nationally, performing with the Grammy® winning Conspirare in Austin, True Concord in Tucson, Skylark in the greater Boston area, Ensemble viii in Austin, the San Diego Bach Collegium, Ensemble Origo in Hartford and Boston, Seraphic Fire in Miami, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, the Cape Cod Symphony, Vox Humana in Dallas, Spire in Kansas City, the Advent Choir in Boston, and the Victoria Bach Festival. He has performed on over thirty recordings including the 2015 Grammy winning album, The Sacred Spirit of Russia with Conspirare. He has also appeared on two PBS specials and a NPR Tiny Desk concert. Paul recently toured Korea as a chorister and soloist with the American Soloist Ensemble sponsored by the National Chorus of Korea. D'Arcy maintains an active voice studio of approximately twenty students in New York City, and is a vocal coach for the New York City Children’s Chorus.