Bangor Daily News by Alicia Anstead, September 10, 2004
Musical Interludes
Politica by Maja Smiljanic Radic , March 24, 2004
Musical Perspectives: Concert of the Boston Piano Trio
The performance of three exceptional young musicians from Boston, gathered in a piano trio, at the Kolarac Hall, has enriched Jugokoncert's podium of chamber music. Subtlety and delicacy of Irina Muresanu (violin), rich and authoritative tone of Alison Eldridge (violoncello) and virtuosity and depth of the pianist Heng-Jin Park are subject to creative and inspired exchange. Together, they have presented a high level of professionalism, in function of the emotive expression, with clear understanding of the scores and their demands.
The Desert News, Utah: by Desert News music critic Edward Reichel, March 24, 2003
Boston Trio plays with keen musicality
"...The members of the Boston Trio are all chamber musicians of the highest caliber...All three possess technical acumen and keen musicality; Their playing is seamless and fluid, as well as intuitive and remarkably alive... Their interpretation was perceptive, sensitive, and deeply felt and dynamic... It was evocative, eloquent and richly expressive... In short, Friday's concert was the way chamber music was intended to be played."
The Boston Globe of the Rockport Chamber Music Festival performance, June 17, 2002 (Richard Dyer, critic) "these three women excel in music that is passionate, romantic, and improvisatory... all three women are big, uninhibited, interactive players with first-rate chops, and their glam quotient is more than matched by experienced musicianship...The Smetana, was stirring, and the Boston Trio offered a vivacious encore, nimbly played, the scampering Scherzo from the Mendelssohn c-minor Trio."
Of the Boston Trio's debut in the Rockport Chamber Music Festival for the Grand Finale concert in July, 2000, The Boston Herald remarked, "He (David Deveau) didn't say he was saving the best for last...the group plays with verve and style, but always keeps the music in the foreground...all three players have major chops..."
"...The members of the Boston Trio are all chamber musicians of the highest caliber... All three possess technical acumen and keen musicality; Their playing is seamless and fluid, as well as intuitive and remarkably alive... Their interpretation was perceptive, sensitive, and deeply felt and dynamic... It was evocative, eloquent and richly expressive... In short, Friday's concert was the way chamber music was intended to be played."
After their debut performance in Utah in 2000, The Deseret News reported, "...the musicians are all outstanding artists of the highest caliber…the artists gave a decisive and intelligent performance...their interpretation was amazingly direct and vivid..."
"...The members of the Boston Trio are all chamber musicians of the highest caliber... All three possess technical acumen and keen musicality; Their playing is seamless and fluid, as well as intuitive and remarkably alive... Their interpretation was perceptive, sensitive, and deeply felt and dynamic... It was evocative, eloquent and richly expressive... In short, Friday's concert was the way chamber music was intended to be played."
The Boston Globe after the trio's Jordan Hall debut, "...it's a little surprising when another group appears and immediately takes a place at the head of the pack…yet that's what's happened with the Boston Trio, which conquered Tanglewood a year ago, and added Jordan Hall to its conquests Sunday afternoon...Between them, they hold a passel of impressive professional affiliations, competition honors, and pedagogical pedigrees, all of which one expects of leading performers, but none which guarantees the kind of unified purpose that one has to obtain for really fine chamber music...These three play with purpose, passion, and points of mutual contact … taut, technically brilliant, witty, and winning in nearly every respect…a late contender for the best-of-1998 roundup, their performance of Ravel's Trio was superb on so many levels...Ellsworth's opening was beautifully and subtly phrased, and set exactly the right tone for this most sensual of the four movements. The Pantoum was delivered with extraordinary vitality, and the monstrously difficult finale was among the most buoyant, least labored this listener has heard."
"...The members of the Boston Trio are all chamber musicians of the highest caliber... All three possess technical acumen and keen musicality; Their playing is seamless and fluid, as well as intuitive and remarkably alive... Their interpretation was perceptive, sensitive, and deeply felt and dynamic... It was evocative, eloquent and richly expressive... In short, Friday's concert was the way chamber music was intended to be played."
Tanglewood debut in August 1997 at Seiji Ozawa Hall, The Boston Globe wrote, "You never know if music is going to change your life or merely massage your ears. In Friday's Prelude Concert in Ozawa Hall, the divine lightning struck in the form of two seemingly incompatible piano trios..divine lightning struck [as the trio played with] rare emotional commitment and imagination… They have a superb sense of ensemble and a wondrous balance, never indulging in phony emotionalism, remaining true to Brahms...Park Ellsworth's utterly fluid playing provided symphonic textures without overpowering her colleagues…whenever this trio plays, drop everything and go hear them"