Paul Roberts BA FGS

‘A truly creative performer.’ The Guardian

Paul Roberts is known internationally for his performances of French music. He is author of a celebrated book on Debussy, Images: The Piano Music of Claude Debussy (Amadeus Press) - which has just been reprinted in paperback - and Reflections: The Piano Music of Maurice Ravel. His parallel career as a writer also led to a commission from Phaidon Press for a biography of Debussy, which was published in 2007. 

Paul Roberts is recording the complete piano music of Debussy. The first CD in the series received four-star recommendation from Classic CD magazine - ‘probably the most desirable modern recording of the Preludes currently available in the UK’ - while Erato Disques said it was ‘comparable to the very greatest.’ The second disc - Images I and Preludes II - has just been released.

Paul Roberts travels world-wide, and has recently given masterclasses and recitals at the conservatories of Sydney and Brisbane in Australia, at the Stockholm Academy, in Madrid, and in San Francisco, New York (Juilliard) and Baltimore (Peabody). He has made three consecutive appearances at the Piano Festival Northwest in Portland, Oregon, where he returns again in 2002. 

He is a Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, where he is currently working on a research project on Ravel’s piano music, and he is the director of the piano summer school in southern France, Music at Ladevie.

‘You feel in his playing an uncommon depth of study and absorption that supports, and legitimises, a free imaginative licence.’ Independent on Sunday