Paul Wiggin

Lyric Tenor Paul Warren Wiggin is the Founder, and former President of MUSE. Paul now trains new MUSE singers, while continuing to sing and serve. Paul is winner of the 1965 National Federation of Music Clubs Ann Gannett Award. Paul studied voice with Ruth Streeter, Rand Smith and Metropolitan tenor, Frederic Jagel at the New England Conservatory of Music. Paul was tenor soloist in choirs and quartets of Union Church, Waban, MA. For 30 years, as well as for 15 years at Temple Sinai in Brookline and Temple Shalom in West Newton. He taught creative writing, communications, public speaking, and “Happenings” for 10 years at Rhode Island College, Rhode Island School of Design, and Rhode Island Urban Education Center. Since 1972, Paul has soloed and performed with Sound Investment’s “very large octet” and with its parent Saengerfest Men’s Chorus, traveling to Canada, Portugal, England’s Royal Albert Hall (World Welsh Choirs), Salisbury and Westminster Cathedrals, and, in 2008, Carnegie Hall. For 25 years, Paul Wiggin directed Waban’s Summerfun-Winterfun Singalongs and was for 10 years song leader at Meadowbrook Day Camp. Barbershop tenoring in high school, led to the Boston Chapter. He performs currently in 4 In Accord Quartet. He and Jean Stackhouse (former chair of Piano Pedagogy at NECM) continue forty years of duet concerts.

Paul and his wife Phyllis have four children, and 11 grandchildren. A MUSE concert by Paul Wiggin features interactive responses and songs from his book of sonnets, songs and sketches, “How Beautiful It Is To Sing!” Add to that the old timey tunes, show biz, classical arias, and songs of faith and hope, and the result is the drawing of fond memories and images worth remembering and anticipating from fans attending his regular MUSE nursing home and bedside-troubadour visits. Paul Wiggin attended of Newton High school, the Rivers School, the Lenox School, Oberlin University, Boston University, and Andover Newton Theological School. Paul graduated from Tufts University (B.A., Drama and English, 1947), and Emerson College, (M. A., Speech and Communications, 1969). MUSE founder likes to say that, “Paul attended many ‘diversities’!”