Press Reviews
(Selected press quotes below. For full reviews and feature articles, please visit artist's Digital Presskit.)
What the critics say about Maya Beiser...
"Brightly voiced and musically attentive everywhere. The young Israeli cellist had a firm and even hand regardless of subject: bleak modernism, sultry ethnicity, or Romantic revival." - The New York Times
"Flawless ... definitive ... an outstanding performance. From her most nimble notes to her wild and fascinating cadenzas, Beiser simply made the piece her own." - Newsday, New York
"...she went at the incredibly challenging cello solo like a rock guitarist, playing its slides, plucked notes, double stops and other difficulties with style and abandon." - The Gazette, Saratoga, NY
"Maya Beiser is a cellist with a powerful and unique personality and a dominant dramatic talent. Superb playing, simply a Jewel." - Al Hamishmar, Tel Aviv
"Ardently songful. Beiser's tone was plangent, her intonation secure and her vibrato admirably taut." - American Record Guide
"Powerful expression and a profound, resonant, beautiful sound. A demonstration of brilliant virtuosity." - Haarets, Jerusalem
"Ms. Beiser's playing was impressive in its exquisite, gorgeous sound. A phenomenal cellist, endowed with a truly unique temperament." - St. Petersburg Evening News
What the critics say about Pablo Ziegler...
“Pianist and composer Ziegler, who played with Astor Piazzolla’s own band for 10 years, delivered the real thing with the help of a sensational youthful-looking bandoneón player, Héctor del Curto, and a jack-of-all-trades guitarist, Claudio Ragazzi (who had to carry the bass line and play chords and solos). They imbued an 80-minute set of music by Piaz zolla and Ziegler with plenty of energy and jazz-steeped music that enthralled an enthusiastic audience.”
-Harvey Steiman, The Aspen Times Weekly, July 24, 2007 reviewing the Aspen Music Festival
“If you’ve never experienced tango, this new jazz-tinged tango may be for you. Ziegler’s music carries all the weighty seriousness of life, complete with all the carefree, improvised trappings of hope.”
-Sean Harder, Savannah Morning News, March 24, 2006
“the most successful blend of modern jazz and tango I’ve ever yet heard”
– Audiophile Audition
“there’s no question that Ziegler takes the tango to levels of sophistication and refinement probably undreamed of by Piazzolla”
– Chicago Tribune
“and then there’s Ziegler’s playing. He is cool, understated and makes everything look easy and natural, although those rumbling let hand figures, those clever glissandos are anything but. Just as a really suave tango dancer seems not to move with feet but on wheels, Ziegler skates the keyboard”
– Los Angeles Times