Paula M. Kimper, b. 1956, a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, has been active in New York City for 30 years as a composer of opera, theater, dance, film and song.

Ms. Kimper’s first opera, Patience & Sarah, received its world premiere in Lincoln Center Festival '98, and was most recently produced in June 2007 in Oakland, California. The Captivation of Eunice Williams, commissioned by the PVMA of Deerfield, MA, premiered in July 2004, and was most recently performed in Skopje, Macedonia, in an historic co-production of the Albanian National Theater Company and the Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra, in September 2008.  Ms. Kimper is at work on an opera based on The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder, which received a workshop in October 2007 with Old Deerfield Productions.

The Restless Yearning Towards My Self, a setting of a poem by Perry Brass for counter-tenor and string quartet was commissioned and premiered by Downtown Music Productions in March 2008. Ms. Kimper appears as guitarist/composer with singer Elaine Valby and dancer/choreographer Amy Pivar in an ongoing collaboration called Songs for Solo Dance and Voice. EMPTINESS, A suite of Mahadeviyakka, for two voices, guitar and dancer was commissioned by Amy Pivar and premiered at NYC’s Dance New Amsterdam in March 2007. Don Juan, a new translation of Molière by Virginia Scott, was scored for solo guitar and performed by the composer in July 2007. Skinny Marys Talk About Faith (2007), and 10 of 10,000: Mermaid Lullabies (2005), for two voices and cello, were commissioned and premiered by Seraphim.

Ms. Kimper has composed for films and television since 1987. GLACIER BAY, an award-winning 2006 short film, directed by Douglas Moser, features music by Kimper. Flight of the HARMONIC MESSENGER, a 1993 electro-acoustic CD release, has aired worldwide.