Stephen Smoliar at examiner.com reviewed Hannah Addario-Berry's new album, Scordatura:
"Addario-Berry has mastered the art of getting every note to speak to the attentive listener. Her name may not be familiar to listeners who think that they have already decided on a favorite cellist, but the freshness of her approach to the Opus 8 sonata not only deserves but also demands attention from anyone interested in this piece."
Read the rest at examiner.com.
Stephen Smoliar reviewed the new Joseph M. Colombo/The Living Earth Show recording. Here's an excerpt:
"Colombo takes an interesting approach to the pacing of this narrative. “I watch the fire…” sustains its destructive energy for a little over seven minutes. However, the concluding movement takes less than three minutes, suggesting that one need only let go of the urgency of the present to acknowledge the inevitability of passing. The result is some highly persuasive rhetoric packed into an impressively short duration."
"...Post-Haste Reed Duo show us an admirable musical poeticism and a supreme command of their instruments for a very lively and absorbing program of where chamber music can be in our times. Highly recommended."
- Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review
Post-Haste Reed Duo's debut album is an honorable mention in the March 2016 edition of textura. The review:
"theirs is no novelty act; the music on the release holds up as an excellent collection of contemporary classical works by Louis Andriessen, Simon Hutchinson, Lanier Sammons, John Steinmetz, and Ethan Wickman, no matter the instrumentation involved."
"...what beneath a canopy of angels...a river of stars demonstrates above else is that whatever reservations one might have harboured regarding the limitations of a saxophone-and-bassoon pairing can be put aside, as Fredenburg and Rodriguez clearly show that music of limitless stylistic range and emotional scope is possible when such instrumentation is involved."
Pianist Jai Jeffryes reviewed Meerenai Shim's Pheromone and her album release show at Scholes Street Studio in Brooklyn, NY.
"Rarely do I enjoy a concert with a pleasure so rich and so complete as the pleasure I experienced at the Pheromone preview. Put a flute in the hands of Meerenai Shim and she is a sorceress."
Tammy Evans Yonce reviewed Meerenai Shim's Pheromone in The Flute View:
"Her first two albums are fantastic but Shim has outdone herself with this latest release. Pheromone takes her playing to a completely new level."
Read the rest of the review at The Flute View.
Daniel Barbiero reviewed Meerenai Shim's Pheromone in the Avant Music News:
"Pheromone, the third solo recording by San Francisco-area new music flutist Meerenai Shim, is a fine collection of new electroacoustic works, all but one of which were commissioned for this recording. The six compositions encompass their composers’ individual approaches to integrating the flute with electronics of various types, and reflect Shim’s own genre-challenging, eclectic engagement with new music."
Flutist Amanda Cook reviewed Meerenai Shim's Pheromone in I CARE IF YOU LISTEN.
"Virtuosic Versatility"
Here's an excerpt:
"...Pheromone stands in a class of its own. This album’s dedication to all electro-acoustic compositions definitively breaks from traditional repertoire and instrumentation, unapologetically plays to Shim’s strengths, and highlights her incredible versatility as a contemporary artist."
