Toronto

"AN EVENING OF FIRST-RATE MUSIC-MAKING (headline)...Mature, dynamic performances of works by Wolf, Schoenberg, and Mendelssohn."

(Toronto Globe and Mail)

Milwaukee

"There are concerts and there are great musical events. Sunday's performance by the Fine Arts Quartet...was one of those great events."

(Milwaukee Sentinel)

Carmel, CA

"BRILLIANT FINE ARTS QUARTET LEAVES AUDIENCE ALMOST IN SHOCK" (headline)... The performance was all that this critic could possibly have wished for. The virtuoso concerto-like passagework for all four players was done with breathtaking ease and assurance. Chamber music amateurs in the audience (including me) were almost in a state of shock at the end."

(The Carmel Pine Cone)

Birmingham

"The Fine Arts Quartet is one of those groups that have earned its position among the top in chamber music."

(Birmingham Observer-Eccentric)

Ft. Lauderdale

"The ensemble offered an elegantly phrased, rich-toned...beautifully shaded performance."

(Sun-Sentinel, Ft. Lauderdale)

Lexington

"The Fine Arts Quartet gave a performance last night that was a veritable feast of rich tone color and drama...The Quartet played with exquisite sensitivity."

(Lexington Herald Leader)

Greenville

"The Fine Arts Quartet's performance in the International Chamber Music Series Thursday night goes on my short list of the richest, most elegant and provocative chamber music events in Greenville in recent years."

(The Greenville News, January 29, 1999)

New Haven

"An excellent concert by the Fine Arts Quartet...These four musicians played as a seasoned quartet. Blend was excellent...The Fine Arts Quartet showed the range of their warmly sympathetic treatment of the literature."

(New Haven Journal-Courier)

Austin

"The Fine Arts Quartet (received) a standing ovation for an impeccably tailored recital...This ensemble's sound has the smooth, mature patina of well-worn kid leather...The end effect was one of comfortable beauty."

(Austin American-Statesman)

Kalamazoo

"FINE ARTS QUARTET EXCELS AT THE CIVIC (headline)...A musical golden glow suffuses all that the ensemble plays so that a masked, or burnished quality cushions each note...This group performs all kinds of music so beautifully... that few ultimately can resist. Thursday's concert proved an exciting and glorious evening of music on its own terms."

(Kalamazoo Gazette)

Edmonton

"QUARTET SHOWS BRILLIANCE (headline)...Consummate artistry by the Fine Arts Quartet."

(The Edmonton Journal)

Providence

"FINE ARTS QUARTET SHOWS SILKY REFINEMENT (headline)...This is a fine-honed ensemble, up there with the very best...There was a kind of unhurried ease about their playing, a mellowness that allowed one to savor the music...For all its grandeur, this was also a remarkably refined performance."

(The Providence Journal-Bulletin)

Lexington

"With its highly polished ensemble technique, its refined and understated interpretations, its finely regulated tonal balance, the Fine Arts Quartet showed what fine chamber playing is all about."

(Lexington Herald-Leader)

Portland, OR

"The Fine Arts Quartet opened the 50th season of Friends of Chamber Music with a concert that was fresh and invigorating...illustrating the strengths of quartet playing: cohesiveness, technical aplomb and unity of sound and musical style... The Fine Arts Quartet played with enormous refinement, creating sound textures that were so vivid, they seemed almost tactile."

(The Oregonian, Portland)

Corpus Christi

"These remarkable musicians...played Schubert, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky as though these composers and their extremely challenging music were old friends. And were the composers to hear this captivating ensemble, these friendships would, no doubt, have deepened."

(Corpus Christi Caller-Times)

Waterloo

"FINE ARTS QUARTET CONCERT IS MARVELOUS EXPERIENCE (headline)...The Quartet gave the scores their own interpretive signature."

(Waterloo Courier, Iowa)

Columbus, OH

"The Fine Arts Quartet is carrying on a tradition of superior music-making. Saturday's performance satisfied even the pickiest chamber music fanatic."

(Columbus Dispatch, Ohio)

Worcester

"The Fine Arts Quartet presented a beautiful program of chamber music... Worcester Art Museum was filled with an afternoon of stringed virtuosity."

(Worcester Evening Gazette)

Bloomington (Indiana University)

"FINE ARTS QUARTET TRANSCENDS IN PERFORMANCE (headline)...Sitting down at the typewriter to summarize the impressions left after hearing the final two concerts by the Fine Arts Quartet in its 1999 summer series, one recalls, first of all, the total: a fabric of tonal luster and richness of weave... The just-completed set of Fine Arts Quartet concerts was outstanding, as rewarding a package as the group ever left behind...Most of all, I'll remember the nobility, the spirituality, the melodic beauties of those first two movements in Schubert's C Major Quintet. The reading by the Fine Arts was profoundly moving."

(Herald-Times, Bloomington, Indiana)