Paul Sartin (20 February 1971 – 14 September 2022)[1][2] was an English singer, instrumentalist, composer and arranger, specialising in oboe and violin.

Between school and university, he played oboe with a musical theatre troupe called Gloria, and the English National Opera's Baylis project.

During that period, he gained a diploma – Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music – and was invited to join the band Life Of Reilly, which at that time also included his future collaborator Paul Hutchinson.

[6] The band undertook outreach work with charities Superact[7][8] and Live Music Now,[9][10] and produced two albums – The First Cut[11] and Wager[12] – before splitting in 2005.

He took up a position as vocal tutor at St Edward's School, Oxford in 1999,[13] commenced singing as deputy lay clerk in Winchester Cathedral choir in 2000, and began directing the Andover Museum Loft Singers, a non-auditioning community choir based in Andover, Hampshire, in 2001.

[24] Made In The Great War, a piece devised around the history of a pre-war violin in Sam Sweeney's possession, toured annually for several years from 2014.

[29] He was the co-founder of the Whitchurch Folk Club where he helped to further knowledge of the songs of Henry Lee, collected by George Gardiner.

[32] Sartin hosted BBC Four's Christmas session, broadcast in 2009, which featured Bellowhead and Belshazzar's Feast alongside Jim Moray, The Unthanks, Thea Gilmore and Lisa Knapp.

[34] In August 2022 he talked about Vaughan Williams's relationship to English folk music on BBC Radio 4's Front Row.