Earning Criteria

• Extensive research about Debussy in Paris with primary and secondary sources resulting in writing the celebrated book, entitled, Debussy’s Paris: Piano Portraits of the Belle Époque, which reveals little-known elements of Parisian culture and weaves the music, the man, the city, and the era into an indissoluble whole.”
• The unique combination of research capabilities and personal take on the composer’s ideas serve as a musical mountain summit where expertise becomes not just a dry theory, but a vivid vehicle of ideas submerging into a stream during live performances of Debussy’s music, transporting the audience to the dreamlike world of imaginative soundscapes, exotic scales, poly-tones, large unresolved chords, and ambiguous tonality so critically characteristic of the composer.
• Associative interpretation and analysis of Debussy’s piano works as related to knowledge of his influences in social, cultural, literature, poetry, and history in both prose writing and piano performance.
• Creative interpretation of Debussy’s piano works in performance.
• Extensive harmonic analysis of Debussy’s music and compositional techniques including exotic scales, poly-tones, large unresolved chords, and ambiguous tonality.
• Recording and Releasing CDs with Debussy’s works.
• InterHarmony Artist Faculty