Paul McMahon is one of the country’s leading tenors and early music specialists with an international performing career and an extensive discography of over thirty commercial studio recordings from 1999 to the present day. Previously on the academic staff of the School of Creative Arts, University of Newcastle, Paul is a highly experienced studio and ensemble teacher of voice as well as lecturer in music history and historically informed performance. 　　His PhD thesis, at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, explored the delivery of higher education pedagogy in baroque performance practice. His book George Frideric Handel and Giovanni Battista Draghi: Two contrasting approaches to text setting in John Dryden’s A Song for St Cecilia’s Day, 1687 was published in Cologne by Lambert Academic Publishing in 2009.