"The Fine Arts Quartet is like the most comfortable of friends, one who allows you to kick off your shoes, let down your pretenses and wallow in the great warmth of its personality."
(Detroit Free Press)
Jerusalem
"The highest level of performance...very musical playing and a great sense of style."
(Jerusalem Post)
St. Louis
"They form an ensemble whose surface polish is as impressive as its interpretive depth, whose approach to music-making is remarkably unified, whose energy and panache seem limitless."
(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Grenoble
"DIVINE VIRTUOSITY"(headline)
(Le Dauphine, Grenoble)
Geneva
"All repertoire seems to be suited to these musicians of the highest caliber, virtuosos without ostentation...The secret of the Fine Arts Quartet: it rests among the elite few able to display a spatial poetic conception."
(La Tribune de Genève)
Gien
"One can only be bewitched by their perfection...It is nearly too beautiful."
(Journal de Gien, France)
Pittsburgh
"They maintained a distinctive collective profile, and generated a vitality that brought the music to life...The players achieved a conversational quality, probing the emotional content of this compelling score in a personal, yet always collaborative way."
(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Oklahoma City
"Rarely has such an elegant, rich and stylish ensemble been heard here."
(Daily Oklahoman )
Grenoble
"Fine Arts Quartet at the Alps Festival: Superb!" (headline)
(Dauphine Libère, Grenoble)
Geneva
"Once more, we salute the warm and luminous qualities of the Fine Arts Quartet whose remarkably mellow and homogeneous playing succeeds in leaping over the threshold of jubilation."
(Le Courrier , Geneva)
Jerusalem
"An exciting ... program was performed with brilliance in all aspects, proving the Fine Arts Quartet to be at the top of its field. One runs out of superlatives to describe its technical flawlessness and often-breathtaking precision. There were beautiful sonorities in every mood and attention to minute detail without any loss of large lines or continuity. It was one of those rare evenings when the critic succumbs to unreserved enjoyment of the music."
(Jerusalem Post)
Cologne
"FINE CHAMBER MUSIC (headline)...Their secret: they were just superb (with) perfect intonation. All voices were equal, perfectly balanced and sensibly weighted."
(Stadt Anzeiger, Cologne)
Liverpool
"It was symptomatic of their approach throughout - seamless, elegant, sometimes gentle music - making...and the apparent effortlessness that comes only with total mastery."
(Liverpool Daily Post)
London: Wigmore Hall
"The Fine Arts Quartet...an ensemble notable for its mature musicianship."
(The London Daily Telegraph)
Naantali
"The Fine Arts Quartet fulfilled my highest expectations."
(Turun Sanomat, Naantali, Finland)
Wurzburg
"FOUR FIRST-CLASS MUSICIANS FASCINATE" (headline)
(Main-Post, Wurzburg)
Milwaukee
"The Fine Arts Quartet is clearly one of America's treasures."
(Milwaukee Sentinel)
Zurich
"Striking tonal homogeneity."
(Neue Zuricher Zeitung)
Phoenix
"TRULY FINE ARTISTRY GRACES ENSEMBLE'S CONCERT (headline)...The ensemble swept the capacity audience off its feet with some of the finest chamber-music making in years."
(Arizona Republic)
Albuquerque
"The Fine Arts Quartet returned to the June Music Festival in triumph...The players won a small, collective gasp of pleasure from the audience...We must hear more from these players."
(The Albuquerque Journal)