Conductor, oboist and pedagogue, Dr. Paul Sherman, D.M.A, enjoys a musical career with a wide range of styles and forms.  He is now entering his third year as Director of the Chapman Wind Symphony.  The Wind Symphony performs both classic repertoire and the best of new wave of contemporary music.  He also directs winds chamber music and is Instructor of Oboe.  For the last decade he has been music director for the Santa Clarita Valley Youth Philharmonic, Orchestra and Prelude Strings an organization of three orchestras and 200 students based at College of the Canyons.  This season his orchestra is a Los Angeles Philharmonic Partner Orchestra and will perform in Walt Disney Concert Hall in May as part of the International Youth Orchestra Festival.  He is also deeply involved in contemporary music and is Executive Director of ensembleGREEN along with commissioning works for his large ensembles and solo oboe.

He performs regularly on modern and period oboes in orchestral, solo and studio settings.  On period instruments he performs with: Musica Angelica, San Diego Bach Collegium, Harmonia Baroque Players, Del Mar Baroque and is a founding member of Arroyo Baroque.  He teaches baroque oboe performance and is director of Le Canards du Roy, baroque oboe band at USC.