British pianist and author Paul Roberts has been a regular guest artist and lecturer in the United States since 1999. Roberts is a Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, visiting professor at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, and director of Music at Castelfranc piano program in southern France.

In addition to his extensive playing and lecturing schedule that takes him across the United States, Great Britain and Western Europe, Amadeus Press of NY has just released a Paul Roberts DVD entitled “Mists, Fairies and Fireworks: Debussy's Preludes for Piano,” featuring Roberts as part of their new "Steinway Presents" DVD series. 

Roberts parallel career as a writer has led to London’s Phaidon Press’ fall release of his Debussy biography. He is also author of the celebrated book on Debussy, Images: The Piano Music of Claude Debussy (Amadeus Press), a combined study of music, poetry and painting. At present he is working on a companion volume Reflections: The Piano Music of Maurice Ravel which will give further insight into the cultural and artistic milieu of France at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Roberts has just finished making a film for Great Britain’s BBC television, to be screened this spring, in which leading instrumental performers have been asked to teach a variety of celebrities from all walks of the arts, entertainment and politics, to learn a classical instrument from scratch. Paul achieved teaching Diane Abbott -- the first black Member of Parliament in Tony Blair's Labour Party, and a leading political broadcaster and activist -- to play a Chopin Prelude in four months.

As a leading authority on Debussy, Paul Roberts is currently recording the complete piano music. The first CD in the series received four-star recommendation from Classic CD magazine - who proclaimed it as "probably the most desirable modern recording of the Preludes currently available in the UK" - while Erato Disques said his performances were "comparable to the very greatest." The second disc - Images I and Preludes II – earns equal praise.

"You feel in his playing an uncommon depth of study and absorption
that supports, and legitimizes, a free imaginative license."  
Independent on Sunday (London)