Career

A graduate of the Queensland Conservatorium where he reveived the Medal of Excellence, Dean won the Australian Clarinet Competition, the Mattara National Concerto Competition, the Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition in Los Angeles (as a member of the Movellan Wind Quintet).

He often performs together with his brother, the Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

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Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 Brett Dean

Brett Dean

Brett Dean is a contemporary Australian composer, violist and conductor.-Career:Dean studied at the Queensland Conservatorium where he received a Medal of Excellence. From 1985 to 1999, Dean was a violist in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2000, he decided to pursue a career as a freelance...

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Paul Dean is one of the members of the Southern Cross Soloists, based in Brisbane. As soloist, recitalist and chamber music

Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...

ian, Paul Dean has performed in Norway, England, Japan, the USA and Canada.

During 1987 and 2000 he was Principal Clarinet with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra

Queensland Symphony Orchestra

The Queensland Symphony Orchestra is an Australian orchestra, based principally in Brisbane in the state of Queensland.The QSO played its first concert on 26 March 1947, with the orchestra consisting of 45 musicians, conducted by Percy Code. John Farnsworth Hall was recruited from the Sydney...

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In 2003 Dean was a soloist with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra

The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra was founded as a 17 player radio ensemble in 1936, in Adelaide, South Australia. The orchestra reformed in 1949 as the 55 member South Australian Symphony Orchestra. It reverted to its original and present title, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, in late 1974, and...

 and The Queensland Orchestra. He toured nationally with the Australian String Quartet

Australian String Quartet

The Australian String Quartet is a prominent Australian string quartet, which presents an annual program of chamber music throughout Australia and internationally....

, playing the Brahms Quintet

Clarinet Quintet (Brahms)

Johannes Brahms's Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 was written in 1891 for the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld. It is widely regarded as Brahms's supreme achievement in chamber music.The piece is known for its autumnal mood...

, Op. 115, and toured New Zealand and the US with the Southern Cross Soloists in the same year.

In 2004 he was a guest artist at the Sydney Festival

Sydney Festival

Sydney Festival is Australia's largest and most attended annual cultural event running every January since it was first held in 1977. Its program features around 80 events including contemporary and classical music, dance, circus, drama, visual arts and artist talks...

 and the Australian String Quartet’s Bridgewater Mill Series, toured nationally with the Macquarie Trio and performed over 50 concerts throughout Australia with the Southern Cross Soloists.

Described by London’s The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times

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 as "the excellent Paul Dean", he has toured extensively throughout USA, Asia, Europe and New Zealand. His performance of the Frankel

Benjamin Frankel

Benjamin Frankel was a British composer. Frankel's most famous pieces include a cycle of five string quartets and eight symphonies as well as a number of concertos for violin and viola; his single best-known piece is probably the First Sonata for Solo Violin, which, like his concertos, resulted...

 Clarinet Quintet, Op. 28, at the 1997 International Clarinetfest in Lubbock, Texas

Lubbock, Texas

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 won him a standing ovation.

Currently Dean invests his time and artistic expression as the Artistic Director of Southern Cross Soloists, the SunWater

SunWater

SunWater is a company located in Queensland, Australia. The company supplies bulk water to over 6000 customers and water consultancy to a range of clients....

 & Stanwell

Stanwell Corporation

Stanwell Corporation is an electricity generation company in Australia. It is fully owned by the Queensland Government, and has a portfolio of generating sites using thermal coal, wind, and hydroelectric power in Queensland....

 Winter Music School and the Bangalow

Bangalow, New South Wales

Bangalow is a small town in New South Wales, Australia, in Byron Shire with a population of 1,327. The town is 765 km north of Sydney and 167 km south of Brisbane, just off the Pacific Highway...

 Music Festival, as well as making regular appearances at festivals throughout Australia.

In 2007 he was Artistic Director of the Bonyi International Youth Music Festival in Brisbane. In 2011 he will be the Artistic Director for tutti world youth music Beijing (www.tuttibeijing.com) an international youth music festival dedicated to music education.

In 2010, Paul Dean was appointed as Artistic Director of the Australian National Academy of Music

Australian National Academy of Music

The Australian National Academy of Music is Australia's centre of excellence responsible for training the country's finest young musicians. Located in the South Melbourne, Victoria, it is a member of the Australian Roundtable for Arts Training Excellence...

 in Melbourne, succeeding his brother Brett Dean in that post.

Discography

• 1990: From Fire by Fire, Queensland Wind Soloists
• 1996: Frankel: Chamber Works, Queensland Symphony Chamber players
• 2009: Sublime Mozart: Works for Clarinet, Paul Dean, the Grainger Quartet, The Queensland Orchestra, Guillaume Tourniaire (conductor): Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
  
  : Clarinet Concerto
  Clarinet Concerto (Mozart)
  Mozart's Clarinet concerto in A major, K. 622 was written in 1791 for the clarinetist Anton Stadler.It consists of the usual three movements, in a fast–slow–fast form:# Allegro# Adagio# Rondo: Allegro...
  
  , K. 622; Clarinet Quintet
  Clarinet Quintet (Mozart)
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, K. 581, was written in 1789 for the clarinetist Anton Stadler. A clarinet quintet is a work for one clarinet and a string quartet . Although originally written for basset clarinet, it is almost always played on a clarinet in A or B-flat...
  
  , K. 581