Paula Mlyn is New York-based composer/singer who has, over the past fifteen years, specialized in composing and performing vocal music. Her output has included song cycles such as Nine Songs to the Poetry of Mark Strand and Donald Justice (1985), Ten Songs to Poems of Dylan Thomas (1986), Fourteen Songs to Poems of Walt Whitman (1991-92), and an opera entitled Eveline loosely based on a short story by James Joyce. She also composed numerous songs to the poems of William Blake, Jane Kenyon, Wallace Stevens, and William Butler Yeats, among many others.

Over the past two decades, Ms. Mlyn has devoted herself to working with Spanish poetry setting the works of Federico Garcia Lorca, Antonio Machado, and Pablo Neruda. In addition, she has a significant body of popular music in Spanish, French, and in English written to the lyrics and poetry of the Cuban-born poet and painter Raul Santiago Sebazco.

Ms. Mlyn’s music has been heard on WNYC and WBAI radio stations, as well as on the Web on ArtMusic Coffeehouse. She also has performed at Symphony Space, Town Hall, CAMI Hall, Performing Arts Center at SUNY Purchase, Hunter College, Southern Connecticut College, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, the Kosciusko Foundation, New York’s Donnell Library, the Puffin Cultural Forum in NJ, and the Levine School of Music in Washington, D.C. Performances for the fall 2005 season include concerts at St. Peter’s Church at CITICORP, Trinity Church’s “Concerts at One” series, and an appearance as part of The Cornelia Street Café’s “The Songwriter’s Beat”.

A member of ASCAP since 1992, Ms. Mlyn began her music studies as a young child and continued at the Manhattan School of Music where she studied piano with Isabel Yalkovsky-Byman and composition with Giampaolo Bracali. She is a graduate of SUNY Purchase (bachelor of fine arts music composition) and Hunter College (master of music degree in music composition) and has studied composition with Myron Fink, Richard Hundley, Charles Turner Yehudi Wyner and John Corigliano. In 1991 she was given a scholarship to attend the prestigious Aspen Music Festival under the auspices of composer George Tsontakis.

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