Paul Erhard’s performance background includes classical double bass, jazz, improvised raga music of India (2013-2015 Fulbright scholar in India), and solo improvisations that combine elements of these rich musical traditions.  Time Art Space Art, born in 2019, is Paul’s newest creative venture of collaborations through music improvisation and composition with painters, photographers, dancers, poets, actors, and film makers.  With TASA, Paul is particularly interested in celebrating through music goodness and beauty in nature and humanity, and the oneness at the core of external diversity. In 2026, Paul composed and performed/recorded solo double bass music for two short films: “Tricky Fairy Lumens” by Chris Pearce and “Making/Faith” by Robert DeJonge.  Paul and pianist Alejandro Cremaschi’s soon to be released recording “Wanderer’s Songs” on London-based Meridian Records is the first professional recording of solo double bass music of Argentine composer Luis Jorge González.  In 2025 Paul joined the Longmont Symphony (CO) as co-principal double bass.

As a classical double bass soloist, Paul has regularly performed double bass recitals with pianists in the USA, Europe, and Asia.  Paul premiered (February 2020) the L. Subramaniam Double Concerto for Violin and Double Bass (written for Paul) with Dr. L. Subramaniam, violin, and has performed many other double bass concertos with orchestras around the USA.  An active chamber musician, his collaborations with the Grammy-winning Takács Quartet include the Schubert Trout Quintet in 2019 at Lincoln Center, New York City.  Paul is Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado College of Music in Boulder, where he taught for 37 years.  In addition to double bass, Paul developed and taught the course “Improvisation for Strings” for 25 years.