Press Quotes
Photo Credit: Tippet Rise Art Center
“Entrancing” — BBC Music Magazine
“careful layering of timbre, minute sculpting of the phrases, perfection of intonation and ensemble, and sincerity and elegance of performance” — Elizabeth Lyon, Hudson Review
“Artists in the deepest sense of the word” — Jeffery Palmer, CutCommon
“Riveting” … “stunning virtuosity and ensemble work” … “fresh and surprising interpretations” — Susan Pena, Reading Eagle
“the trio’s playing is impeccably elegant, earmarked by unmannered musicianship and sui generis stylistic versatility.” — Rafael de Acha, All About the Arts
“It's tempting to single out individual members for the way each distinguishes particular passages, but it's ultimately the trio's playing as a unit that makes the greater impact.” — Textura.org
Reviews
2021 Ink Album Review: “Entrancing”
BBC Music Magazine, Brief Notes, October, 2021
2021 Ink Album Review: “the playing… both precise and evocative, promises much for the future, as does their originality of mind.”
AllMusic.com, October, 2021
2021 Ink Album Review: “The strikingly imaginative debut album by Merz Trio”
Textura.org, September, 2021
2021 Ink Album Review: “an impressively conceived debut album from the boundary-breaking Merz Trio”
All About the Arts, July 9, 2021, by Rafael de Acha
2020 Kettle Corn New Music Concert
Hudson Review, Winter 2021 issue, by Elizabeth Lyon
2019 Wine and Music Salon at NYC’s Sheen Center
CutCommon, October 3, 2019, by Jeffery Palmer
2018 Friends of Chamber Music Reading
Reading Eagle, 15 December, 2018, by Susan Pena
Coverage
Feature Interviews
2019 Yale Daily News
Yale Daily News, October 14, 2019, by Phoebe Liu
2019 Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival
Lake Champlain Weekly, August 14, 2019, by Benjamin Pomerance
Concert Previews
2020-21 Artist Series of Sarasota Season Announcement (Merz Trio Concert: February 14, 2021)
Sarasota Magazine, June 3, 2020
2020 Newburyport, MA
The Daily News, January 14, 2020
2019 Fischoff Tour
Chicago Tribune, October 4, 2019
Competition Press
2021 Naumburg Competition
The Strad, September 20, 2021
Violin Channel, September 19, 2021
2019 Concert Artists Guild Competition
The Strad, October 7, 2019
Violin Channel, October 6, 2019
2019 Fischoff competition
Strings Magazine, June 20, 2019
The Strad, June 18, 2019
Violinist, June 17, 2019, by Laurie Niles
The Violin Channel, May 13, 2019
2018 Chesapeake competition