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Paul Goodey-Avedisyan is Course Director of LMFL, a role he took up in September 2026, and now oversees all aspects of preparation for the 2027 summer course at Giggleswick School. He first taught at LMFL in 2007 as an oboe tutor and became LMFL's Strategy Director in 2022. He now also teaches piano, composition, theory and aural, and runs the Musicianship module.
Paul studied oboe and piano at the Royal College of Music and at the University of California, Los Angeles, then completed his doctorate at the RCM. He has appeared as a soloist in the UK, mainland Europe, Russia, North America, India and China, performing pieces written for him by composers including Michael Oliva, Edwin Roxburgh, Edmund Jolliffe and Marc Yeats. His CD "New Ground" was rated 'excellent' by BBC Music Magazine, and he has recorded Gary Carpenter's Double Concerto "Doubles" with Linda Merrick. As the oboist in rarescale he has premiered hundreds of works across the UK and Europe, and with Sounds Positive he has given over sixty premieres.
Paul's compositions include solo and chamber pieces, a Triple Concerto for oboe, marimba, piano and chamber orchestra, and the concerto "Hohler Fels", written for Karin de Fleyt, flautist with the Stockhausen Estate, which was premiered and recorded in 2013.
From 1998 to 2006 he was Head of Wind, Brass & Percussion at Trinity College of Music. In 2007 he moved to the Royal Northern College of Music as Head of the School of Wind, Brass and Percussion, and in 2013 he became Vice Principal (Performance) and was awarded Fellowship of the RNCM. Since moving to the south of France in 2017 he has worked freelance across Europe as a performer, composer, teacher, examiner and adjudicator, and in 2024 he advised ABRSM on its new performance exam syllabus.
Paul performing at LMFL, Valbonne. The first piece is very quiet and performed off-stage whilst the audience hums. The second piece is Paul giving the premiere of one of his Etudes fo Oboe: a piece using funk rhythms and multiphonics.
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