Jennifer Paull

Jennifer Irène Paull (born Liverpool, England, 24 November 1944) is a musician, publisher, "cultural theorist", lecturer, and author.

Paull is the only soloist to have devoted an international career to the oboe d'amore (alto oboe) [25th Anniversary Conference Programme, International Double Reed Society, page 58] cite journal |last=Belfy |first=Jeanne |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1997 |month= |title= |journal=The Double Reed |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages= |id= |url= |accessdate= |quote= ] . Her career has been spent in researching and commissioning works for all the rare members of the oboe family. She is a synaesthete.

Paull quickly became established as an oboe d'amore expert, in particular with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, formerly known as the BBC Northern Orchestra.

She gave recitals at home and in Europe with John McCabe, who composed both a concerto "Concerto for Oboe d'Amore and Chamber Orchestra" and "Dance-Prelude" (for oboe d'amore and piano) for her. The duo were honoured to give the première of this piece (commissioned by the Merseyside Arts Council and the City of Liverpool at the Royal Variety Performance in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II, at the Liverpool Empire Theatre (1971).

Many works have been written for her, including six by both Leonard Salzedo and Edwin Carr.

In 1995 she recorded "The Oboe d'Amore Collection Volume I", the first ever CD devoted exclusively to the oboe d'amore, and in 1996, "The Oboe d'Amore Collection Volume II" and "The Amoris Consort Collection". A further CD of the G.P. Telemann Oboe d'Amore Concerto in A Major was recorded (1997) with the Craiova Philharmonic Orchestra under Michel Barras, for the Association François-Xavier Bagnoud.

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