Moray Piano Competition 2008

As a pianist and writer, an enlightening teacher and lecturer, Paul Roberts has a versatility and energy that takes him around the world. He has an especially active career in the United States, where he is a regular guest of the Juilliard School in New York and the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. On the West Coast he makes regular visits to Seattle, Portland and San Francisco, where he plays and teaches at the University of Washington, San Francisco Conservatoire and Portland State University. He is one of the few British pianists to have performed in the prestigious Portland Piano International series, and he returns to Portland every summer to perform at the Portland International Piano Festival. Elsewhere he has given recitals and masterclasses at the conservatories of Sydney and Brisbane in Australia, at the Stockholm Academy, and in Madrid. In London he is an honorary Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. He was recently appointed Visiting Professor of Piano at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. In France he is the musical director of the international piano summer school, Music at Castelfranc, and has been a jury member of the International Debussy Competition.