Press

“…a vital part of the New York contemporary-classical scene.”
-New York Times

“Championing works like these, and playing them with a compelling lucidity, are precisely what Talea Ensemble does best.”
-New York Times

“The Talea musicians moved through Mr. Boulez”s music — even works from his most severe period — with astonishing fluidity and warmth.”
-New York Times

“A flexible group that champions toothy modern works and plays them with a compelling lucidity…”
-New York Times

“…meticulously prepared and compellingly rendered.”
-New York Times

“…played with teeming energy and precise control.”
-New York Times

“…the Talea Ensemble gave a fierce performance of Fausto Romitelli’s Professor Bad Trip, a phantasmagorical sprawl of oozing timbres and howling psychedelic guitar.”
-New York Times

“…immeasurably enriched New York’s new-music scene in recent seasons, not least because the commitment with which they embrace even the most forbidding scores makes everything they do communicative.”
-TimeOut New York

“The Talea Ensemble makes modernist music not just accessible but positively engaging through its combination of commanding virtuosity and infectious commitment.”
-TimeOut New York

“…the stage often resembled the site of an athletic event, host to a blindingly high notes-per-measure quotient, fast tempos and a number of special effects. It was a demanding musical gauntlet.”
-Musical America

“…the audience seemed to relish the genre, cheering enthusiastically for every work.”
-Musical America