Sharon J. Paul holds the Robert M. Trotter Chair of Music at the University of Oregon, where she currently serves as the Department Head of Music Performance and Director of Choral Activities. Her teaching includes graduate courses in choral conducting, repertoire, and pedagogy, along with conducting the internationally award-winning Chamber Choir.
The University of Oregon Chamber Choir has garnered international attention in recent years by placing first or second in five international choral competitions, most recently winning both of their competitive categories at the World Choir Games in Auckland, New Zealand, in July 2024.
Dr. Paul has presented interest sessions at regional, state, division, national, and international conferences. She appears frequently as adjudicator, clinician, conductor, teacher, and honor choir director throughout the United States and abroad, with recent engagements in Massachusetts, Montana, Georgia, California, Texas, Wisconsin, Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand, and Costa Rica.
In 2026 Dr. Paul was honored to be the inaugural recipient of Northwest ACDA’s Vanguard Award which recognizes “a visionary choral musician or educator whose innovative spirit, unwavering dedication, and artistic excellence are shaping the future of choral music and education.” In 2025 she was awarded the UO School of Music and Dance’s Berwick Excellence Award for Inclusive Teaching and in 2019 she received Oregon ACDA’s Podium Award for “outstanding contributions to the choral arts.” In March 2020, Oxford University Press published Dr. Paul’s book, Art & Science in the Choral Rehearsal, which features many of the creative and evidence-based teaching strategies she has cultivated over her career.