Noted choral conductor, teacher, and singer Paul Flight was appointed Artistic Director of the California Bach Society in 2006. Critics have praised Dr. Flight's conducting acumen, calling CBS a "choir poised to bloom." He is in his tenth season as principal conductor of the Madison Early Music Festival (Wisconsin), where he has directed masterworks by Bach, Handel, Telemann, Vivaldi, Purcell, Dufay, and Guerrero. Paul has twice been a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, directing the University's top choral ensembles. He recently conducted the operas Savitri by Gustav Holst and Les malheurs d'Orphèe by Darius Milhaud for Mills College, and he has conducted productions of Telemann's Der geduldige Socrates and Handel's Acis and Galatea for the San Francisco Early Music Society. Currently, he is Artistic Director of two additional Bay Area ensembles: Schola Cantorum San Francisco, a professional chamber choir, and the founding director of Berkeley-based Chora Nova. Paul received his doctorate from Indiana University, where he studied conducting with Robert Porco. His research focused on the Venetian composer Giovanni Croce (1557-1609) and he has recorded a program featuring the music of Croce for Harmonia, a nationally syndicated radio show.

An accomplished countertenor, Paul performs opera and oratorio internationally. He made his Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra debut under Esa-Pekka Salonen in December 2005 in John Adams' oratorio El Niño, and he has sung the work for the Norwegian State Opera (Oslo), the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and at the Ravinia Festival (Chicago). Closer to home, he sang the title role of the Egyptian pharaoh in Philip Glass' Akhnaten, to glowing reviews from the San Francisco Chronicle. In May 2006 he returned to Los Angeles to sing the US premiere of Unsuk Chin's Cantatrix Sopranica with the Philharmonic, which he performed in the Bay Area under Kent Nagano in the spring of 2007. In 2008 he debuted with the Cleveland Symphony singing the beautiful countertenor solo in Bernstein's Chichester Psalms; later that year, he made his debut at the Kennedy Center with the first counter-tenor role in Adams's El Niño.

An acclaimed interpreter of 18th-century operatic and concert repertoire, Flight has sung the title role in Handel's Solomon, the role of Montezuma in Karl Heinrich Graun's Montezuma and Dardano in Handel's Amadigi di Gaula. He recently performed the Stabat Mater of Vivaldi and has been a soloist for American Bach Soloists and The San Francisco Bach Choir. A versatile singer, Paul performed with Sting in his Songs from the Labyrinth concerts at Los Angeles' Disney Hall in January 2007. He sings in many outstanding professional ensembles including Theatre of Voices, The New York Collegium, Aguavà New Music Studio, Piffaro, The Waverly Consort, The Folger Consort, Pomerium Musices, and The Concord Ensemble, an award-winning male sextet. Paul has recorded for the Dorian, Harmonia Mundi, and Glissando labels.