Paul Turner is an honours graduate and elected Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, where his many prizes and awards culminated in the Queen's Commendation for Excellence and the Peter Pears Accompaniment Prize, adjudicated by Pears himself. An experienced recitalist, he has appeared at London's leading venues and major U.K. festivals and has given concerts in Europe and  South America, working with many eminent singers and instrumentalists.

“Paul Turner was superlative in every way - wonderfully sensitive, with a very wide tonal palette” (Oxford Mail)

“One of this country's most able and experienced accompanists… some very fine playing indeed”

(Pan CD review)