A career as a recitalist, oratorio and opera singer, alongside many years of teaching voice at universities, conservatories, and a home studio, has provided Dr. Pauls with an extensive breadth of repertoire knowledge. Her vocal expertise has informed her experience as a choral conductor of youth choirs, adult semi-professional choirs and community choirs, and these combined areas of expertise have prompted invitations across Canada as an  adjudicator and clinician for voice and choral festivals. Recently, she has enjoyed adjudicating at vocal and choral festivals in Calgary, Medicine Hat, Corner Brook, St. John's, and across Ontario. 

 

Dr. Pauls completed a DMA from the University of Toronto in 2013, where she concentrated on Vocal Pedagogy studies with Lorna MacDonald, and dissertation research on Bach’s Cantata BWV 210 (Gregory Johnston, Advisor). Current research exploring methods of accommodating greater diversity in community choral settings has led to paper presentations for conferences at Memorial University (St. John’s, Newfoundland), Laurier University (Waterloo, Ontario), University of Southern Florida (Tampa, Florida), and the Podium 2018 Conference in St. John's NL, and at the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Conferences in Las Vegas, Nevada (2018). She presented "Building Community - A Community Music Project Connecting Newcomers and Established Residents" at Chorus America's inaugural virtual conference (2020).

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Her work as Associate Artistic Director for the Oakville Choir for Children and Youth has generated research titled "Creating a Sisterhood: Working with Adolescent female voices in the choral setting", which combines awareness of physiological vocal development combined with leadership training for young women (as presented at Podium 2018 in St. John's, Newfoundland). Dr. Pauls gave a corollary presentation titled "What Your Mother Never Told You About Your Larynx" about the lifespan of the female vocal instrument, at the inaugural Women's Conducting Institute in Halifax.