Paul Chambers is a percussionist and educator from Kingston, New York. He holds a Master’s degree in percussion performance and a Bachelor’s degree in music education from the State University of New York at Fredonia as well as an Associate’s degree in music from SUNY Ulster. He is currently an adjunct instructor in the music department at SUNY Ulster as well as front ensemble director of the championship winning Arlington High School Marching Band and Winter Percussion Ensemble. He is in demand as a performer throughout the Hudson Valley in a variety of professional orchestras, musical theater organizations, and jazz ensembles, including principal positions with the Woodstock Symphony Orchestra and Woodstock Playhouse. Other performance highlights include being selected as a member of the International Marimba Orchestra for the 2021 Percussive Arts Society International Convention. He won a position in the inaugural World Percussion Group of 2016 which is an ensemble conceived to give wide reaching exposure and experience to the most promising up-and-coming percussionists around the world. He is an avid performer, researcher, and clinician of traditional African music. He studied abroad in Ghana on three separate occasions and, in 2016, was awarded a Fulbright grant to document and study traditional music in South Africa. The resulting research is published in the academic journal, African Music.