Nicole Muller
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Nicole Muller is a classical pianist in Canada. Born in 1973, Nicole Muller is currently teaching piano as a professional member of the Registered Music Teachers' Association. 
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[edit] Training & Formative Classical Years
Ms. Muller started her formal classical training in piano at the age of eight years old and completed her diploma 10 years later. Muller then became became an Associate of the Royal Conservatory in the year 1991. Her musical interests range and vary quite widely, and are shown in her playing, but Ms. Muller's true love of music is mainly reserved for classical piano music.
As well as sharing her love of classical music with her actual students, the recording bug runs deep with Nicole Muller, as she has recorded an album of 12 of the 24 Piano Preludes (Debussy) composed by French composer Claude Debussy. Muller was interviewed by La Première Chaîne, the French language public broadcaster in Canada, in which her album was thus featured.
[edit] A Unique Interpretation of Debussy
Muller's interpretation of Debussy is unique and bears special notice, especially pertaining to her conscious choice to not use the sustaining pedal as often as most other pianists who interpret Debussy. A strident comment in the French language found within one of Debussy's letters to his publisher, Jacques Durand, influenced Muller immensely. In the letter, Debussy is found to remark to Durand about his frustration with so many pianists mistakenly over-pedalling, thus blurring his music. Debussy's theory maintained that in the need to overpedal, those that interpreted his music were blurring every bar, even those for which he did not intend pedal; Debussy saw this an an ill attempt by many to hide the degree to which they were massacring his music. He saw this as a deficiency that exposed a lack of properly-acquired skilled pianistic technique.
[edit] Current Endeavors
Currently, Ms. Muller is currently working on various Chopin piano pieces to be featured on a subsequent and second album. Nicole Muller plans many pieces and new albums in the near future.
