These are just a small sample of audience reactions at Portland Piano International where Paul Roberts regularly performs and teaches at the Summer Festival.
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‘A truly creative performer.' ‘You feel in his playing an uncommon depth of study and absorption that supports, and legitimises, a free imaginative licence.' 'Performances comparable to the very greatest' 'Everything he said was valuable and his playing divine; very inspiring.' |
He is a regular guest of the Golandsky Institute Summer Symposium at Princeton, the Miami International Piano Festival and the Portland International Piano Festival.
Paul Roberts teaches at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, where he is an honorary Fellow; he is visiting Professor at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester.
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As a specialist in French Impressionism Paul Roberts has recorded two discs of Debussy's piano music, and a DVD for Amadeus Press on Debussy's Preludes, recorded in Steinway Hall, New York (www.amadeuspress.com). Click here to find out more about the CDs and DVD. He is the author of Images: The Piano Music of Claude Debussy, and is currently working on a companion volume Reflections: The Piano Music of Maurice Ravel. Paul Roberts' long awaited biography of Debussy will be published by Phaidon Press in April 2008. |
photo: Laurie Lewis
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Book News To mark the event there will be a book launch at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Barbican, London, on 28 April at 7 pm. Paul will read excerpts from the book and perform some of the piano music. There will be a book signing afterwards. Click here for a preview of the preface Amadeus Press are planning to re-issue Images: The Piano Music of Claude Debussy. Copies should be available in May. |
Music at Castelfranc
Paul Roberts is director of the international summer school for pianists, Music at Castelfranc, three seven-day courses in southern France which are open to amateurs as well as aspiring professionals.
'Last year Castelfranc was inspirational and my playing improved out of all proportion so
I am hoping for the same miracle again.'
Julian Britton, retired surgeon
'The course at Castelfranc was one of the most enjoyable times of my life.'
Reiko Nakatsukasa, concert pianist
Week-end courses in Sussex
Paul Roberts runs short piano workshops for amateurs at his home in East Sussex. Participants are accommodated at the house or in nearby bed and breakfasts in the charming medieval village. You are invited to register for information by clicking here.
Paul Roberts is represented exclusively in the United States of America by photos Laurie Lewis where marked, others by Peter Schutte |
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