Florin Paul was born in Romania in 1958. As a child he was taught the violin and the piano, and from a very early age he showed an exceptional talent for both. When he was eleven years old he was awarded the first prize in the National Music Competition.
    In 1975 he commenced his studies in Bucharest under Professor Stefan Gheorghiu, under whose guidance he received international acclaim.
    He was awarded the Grand Prix Jacques Thibauld in Paris in 1977 and the first Niccolo Paganini prize in Genoa in 1979.
    In 1982 Florin Paul settled in Germany, where he completed his musical education.
After receiving his degree with distinctions as a soloist under Professor Wolfgang Marschner in Freiburg in 1983, he attained other top awards(L.Spohr in Freiburg in 1983, Tibor Varga in Sion in 1984 and the Yehudi Menuhin prize in Paris in 1985)and became increasingly occupied with concert appereances which led to radio and record recordings and numerous solo appereances with philharmonic and chamber orchestra from Bucharest, Bratislava, Paris, Metz, Sttutgart, Munich, Lausane and Nice, to name but some.
    In recent years Florin Paul has concerted his energies on further increasing his repertoire of chambers music, as is shown for example by his appereance at the 1988 Macao festival with the ten Beethoven sonatas. On several occasions he has performed the Bach Double Concerto together with Henryk Szeryng.
    Since 1994 Florin Paul is first concert-master in the famous Hamburg Radio Orchestra(NDR). He held master courses in Goteborg, Trossingen, Cluj , Iasi and Botosani.

C.D. Recordings:

J.S.Bach-Partitas for violin solo(Tacet 10)

J.S. Bach-Sonata for violin solo(Tacet 47)

A.Vivaldi-The Four Seasons (Arte Nova)

W.A.Mozart-Simfonia concertante for violin, viola and orchestra (Arte Nova)

J. Joachim-Pieces(Works)for violin and piano, FAE Sonata(Tacet 56)