David Paulig
David Paulig is a music theorist, educator and recorder player whose work bridges artistic practice and pedagogy. After studying in Cologne, he gained teaching experience at several German music institutions before joining the Mozarteum University Salzburg in 2014. His wide-ranging activities include teaching music theory, aural training, analysis, improvisation and figured bass, alongside regular concert and workshop engagements as a performer.
David Paulig was born in Limburg an der Lahn and studied secondary education (subjects: music and geography in Cologne. Subsequently, he studied composition with Tilmann Claus, aural education with Friedrich Jaecker, and instrumental pedagogy of the recorder with Ursula Schmidt-Laukamp at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz (HfMT) Cologne. He completed his diploma studies in 2011. Between April 2012 and October 2014, he held teaching positions for composition, aural training, and analysis at the Evangelische Kirchenmusikhochschule Herford and at the music academies in Detmold, Hannover, and Karlsruhe.
In addition, he sang in the RSH vocal ensemble at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf under the direction of Anders Eby until 2013. He regularly gives concerts with the recorder in various ensembles and gives lessons and seminars for recorder ensembles and individual students. Since October 2014 he has been a senior lecturer at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg in the areas of music theory, aural training, analysis, improvisation and figured bass.