Paul Taub, flute, is Professor of Music at Cornish College of the Arts where he has been faculty since 1979. Paul was trained at Rutgers University and the California Institute of the Arts; his teachers include Marcel Moyse, Samuel Baron, Michel Debost and Robert Aitken.

A founding member of SCP, Paul has had a strong musical presence in the Seattle chamber music scene as a member of the New Performance Group, Sonora and Taneko. He has recently formed duo partnerships with Seattle guitarist Michael Partington and pianists Jovino Santos Neto and Byron Schenkman. He is an active soloist and recitalist, with extensive work in American, Soviet/Russian, and international contemporary repertoire. He has appeared in venues throughout the US Northwest and Southeast, Western Canada, Southern France, and Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania. He has given world and US premieres of music by Henry Brant, John Cage, George Crumb, Janice Giteck, Sofia Gubaidulina, Toru Takemitsu, Peteris Vasks and many others. Paul's program of twelve pieces commissioned for his twentieth anniversary in Seattle (1999) was performed in Seattle in Benaroya Hall's first flute recital and reprised in Atlanta and New York. Oo-ee, the CD of this repertoire, is available on the Periplum label. He is the Chairman of the New Music Advisory Committee of the National Flute Association and a member of the Program Committee for Chamber Music America.