• “...one of the most vital and original ensembles on the American music scene.” ARTICLE
  • “...the very model of a modern music chamber band.” ARTICLE
  • “...as close to being a rock band as a chamber orchestra can be.” ARTICLE
  • “...the future of classical music...” ARTICLE

-New York Times

  • “...insouciant virtuosity...a force to reckon with in contemporary American music.” ARTICLE
  • “...equal parts exuberance, nonchalance and virtuosity...crisp and exhilarating.” ARTICLE

-Financial Times

-Entertainment Weekly

  • “...superb...” ARTICLE
  • “...superbly controlled energy...expressively fluid performances...” ARTICLE
  • “...a triumph of ensemble playing.” ARTICLE

-San Francisco Chronicle

  • “...brought precision and urgency to classical, rock and baroque fare, leaving you dazed but thoroughly enlightened and energized.” ARTICLE

-Washington Post

-Remix Magazine

  • “...dazzlingly virtuosic...” ARTICLE

-San Jose Mercury News

  • “...superb...an exciting evening...with a gleeful sense of spontaneity.” ARTICLE
  • “...genre-busting...” ARTICLE
  • “...spectacular...youth, energy, and talent focused on making us hear what the music's up to.” ARTICLE

-Boston Globe

  • “...puts a high premium on fun and games.” ARTICLE

-Los Angeles Times

  • “...this passionate, intelligent performance was a model of how to get more energized - and younger - audiences for classical music.” ARTICLE
  • “...there are concerts that...put everyone present in frantically good spirits - events that linger in the memory and allow one to recall with pride, ‘. . . and I was there.’ This concert was such an event.” ARTICLE

-Andante

  • “...a clean, unforced reading of previously unimagined lucidity.”

-The Philadelphia Inquirer

  • “...incontestably kick-ass...” ARTICLE
  • “...this ensemble not only possesses extreme virtuosity (that we knew) but...has developed powerful ideas about how to renovate the concert experience. Alarm Will Sound are incontestably a sensational force.” ARTICLE

-Alex Ross, The Rest is Noise

  • “...extreme virtuosity and, more interestingly, heart-felt playing.”

-Atlanta Journal-Constitution

  • “...wild precision and brass balls...”

-Boston Weekly Dig

  • “The chamber orchestra...staged a takeover of Zankel Hall..., rewriting music history, blowing away concert conventions, infiltrating the audience and even evicting the stagehands for most of the evening and rolling the piano themselves. A tongue-in-cheek sequence of projected photos and text offered a simultaneous counterpoint of commentary. If concert music has a future among the young, this is what it looks like.” MORE

-Newsday

  • “...these are the definitive performances of these works.” ARTICLE
  • “A staggering palette of nuances and colors... expert execution.”

-Billboard