Paul Charrier grew up in London, starting his singing career early by joining his local church choir at the age of six. After music and singing studies at London University and the Royal College of Music, he embarked on a varied career which has included recording Mozart for a "techno" disc, being cast as a computer nerd and a dog in Spem, an opera by Joe St Johanser, and performing backing vocals for a ride at Alton Towers.  

In between these oddities he has found time for more mainstream activities. Solo appearances include Monteverdi 1610 Vespers at the Edinburgh Festival and Bach B Minor Mass at Symphony Gall, Birmingham. Recently he has sung Bach St Matthew Passion and Handel Messiah in Norwich Cathedral, Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle, Purcell Ode on St Cecilia's Day 1692 and Mozart C Minor Mass.  

He has recorded the bass solos in Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under Marin Alsop, and Priest in St Mark's in Britten's Death in Venice with the City of London Sinfonia and the BBC Singers under the late Richard Hickox. Operatic roles include Guglielmo Cosí Fan Tutte, Frank Die Fledermaus, Morales Carmen and Tesorier Un Giorno di Regno.  

Paul has sung with several well-known ensembles including the Monteverdi Choir, the Glasgow-based Cappella Nova, with whom he has recently made the world première recording of James Macmillan's eight-voice Tenebrae Responsories, and Synergy Vocals, performing Kurt Weill's Die Sieben Totsűnden (Seven Deadly Sins) in Belfast and Dublin and the world premieres of Karin Rehnquist's Embrace Me at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and La Commedia by Louis Andriessen for Netherlands Opera.  

Until 2009 Paul was a Lay Clerk at Guildford Cathedral. He has also been on the staff at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford and at Westminster Abbey, where he sang at the funeral of the Princess of Wales in 1997. Paul Charrier studies with Paul Farrington.