Albin Paulus

Albin Paulus is an internationally acclaimed jew’s harp world virtuoso, bagpipe player, experimental yodeller, voice acrobat and composer a musician full of fun and charm in his live performances, both in his music and his personality.
He explores in his award winning solo show (European Competition “FolkHerbst” 2022) the origin of the musical sound. And this exploration leads into new territory: from the voice as the most immediate expression, through the Jew’s harp as an intimate sound miracle to newly created Beyond-of-this-world instruments such as the Wobblephone, including body percussion, and all without use of any overdubbing.
In an energetic one-man performance, Albin Paulus introduces listening habits absurdly in a tongue-in-cheek and entertaining way. All his musical activities are carried by an extraordinary joy of playing, which certainly also the rogue sits on the neck.
Albin, born in Germany with Austrian roots, has been playing the jew’s harp and yodelling since early childhood. After classical clarinet training in Brunswick/Braunschweig and a study of musicology in Vienna and Cremona (Italy), he made a name for himself internationally as a jew’s harp virtuoso, with the first recording of all jew’s harp concerts J. G. Albrechtsberger. 1998 he got the bagpipe award “maître sonneur” in St. Chartier/ France, and in 2011, he was crowned the world virtuoso of the Jew’s harp in Yakutsk/Siberia. Albin’s concert and teaching activities took him all over Europe as well as to Asia, North Africa and Mexico; not least with “Hotel Palindrone” and with very diverse musical projects such as the Trans European “Love Tree Ensemble” (with the Danish fiddler Harald Haugaard), as front singer of the award-winning project “Voices of Ancestors” with the band “Auli” (LV)(Zelta Mikrofons 2020).
Albin plays in numerous ensembles for “Early Music” such as “Concilium Musicum Wien” (A) “Schikaneder’s Jugend” (A) Ensemble Baroque de Limoges (F), Musica Romana (D), Clemencic Consort (A) and in theatre productions.
In 2019 Albin Paulus released his widely noticed solo album „Pur“. In 2022 he won the Special Award of the European FolkHerbst competition in Plauen (Germany) for his solo program.