"The recording captures the sharpness of
detail in the music, and the consistently fine efforts by the musicians
make the experience extra moving."
-Per Bjorck, HallandSposten
7/10
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"She makes a persuasive, empathetic interpretation with an
unusually
beautiful violin sound."
-Lars Hedblad, SvD
7/10
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"The concert’s piece de resistance was the exhilarating Four
Seasons with Ms. Pitcairn leading the ensemble."
- Donna Kline, Classical Sonoma
11/1/09
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"Once
Pitcairn got around to performing a couple of famous show pieces, it was
obvious that the illustrious instrument is in skilled
hands."
- Joseph
Dalton, Times Union 8/27/09
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"She dug in
to more extroverted passages with energy and elan: The climactic 'Gypsy
Cadenza' showed vintage virtuoso flair, the sort the old studios would
have thrown into a musical for a little class."

Michael Guerrieri, The Boston Globe,
1/16/08

"Elizabeth
permits her soul to become at-one with her music so that her playing
touches all those in her audience."

Danny Gaisin, www.ontarioartsreview.ca,
1/08

"Each of her cadenzas was
achingly beautiful.  In the first movement, she sharply
executed several tricky double stops and exhibited some marvelous bow
work.  In the slow middle movement, her playing was sweetly
lyrical, and throughout the final movement she was crisp and
precise....Pitcairn interacted with the orchestra wonderfully,
exchanging melodic lines with the various sections
seamlessly." 

Mark Benoit,
The Press-Enterprise,
10/4/07

"Guest artist Elizabeth
Pitcairn was stunning in her performance of John Corigliano's The Red Violin: Chaconne for Violin and
Orchestra. Pitcairn is an expressive musician who plays
with a beautiful rich tone. Pitcairn treated the audience to an encore
of Gypsy Airs by
Pablo de Sarasate. Again, she demonstrated glorious tone in all
registers. Her great flair and bravura warmed the evening."

Gregory H. Largent, The Saginaw News,
2/20/06

"Ms. Pitcairn is a beautiful
presence in my Chaconne, with a performance that is very much her own."

John Corigliano, Composer
6/30/05

"Pitcairn’s tone, so full
without being forced and her more than ample bow technique (with a
spiccato that ranks with the best) allow her to use the notes as tools
to the inner music rather than ends in themselves. This approach of art
before flash is as welcome as it is rare in concert life currently. "

James Wegg Review: Pitcairn performing the Tchaikovsky
Concerto at the McCallum Theater Bob Hope Cultural Center, Palm Desert,
CA 1/12/03

"[Joshua] Bell, who played
the music in the movie [The Red
Violin], gave the world premier of that work in 1997 with
the San Francisco Symphony. Elizabeth Pitcairn played the Southern
California premiere in 2000 at an outdoor concert with Victor Vener, and
his enterprising California Philharmonic."

Los
Angeles Times 5/8/04

"The Red Violin
came through with flying colors. Of course, it was in the hands of a
world-class soloist who could probably make music out of a cigar box."

The Press Enterprise
1/13/2004

"Elizabeth Pitcairn was the
guest in a perfectly sweet Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending."

The Philadelphia Inquirer
4/10/03

"Saturday's Brahms Double was
the highlight of the evening. Violinist Elizabeth Pitcairn and cellist
Ronald Leonard...their playing was strongly compatible."

Newark Star Ledger
2/11/02

"From the opening thematic
statement, (Mendelssohn
Concerto), Pitcairn demonstrated her full lucid tone and
technical ease."

Los Angeles Times
4/27/01

"Pitcairn is a brilliant young musician."

The Hamilton Spectator
8/7/01

"Pitcairn's playing was sweet of
tone but always intense and passionate." Gazette Reviewer
8/10/01

"The cadenzas from The Red Violin were tackled
by Elizabeth Pitcairn with a concentrated intensity."

Los Angeles Times
7/31/00

"We recognize violinist
Elizabeth Pitcairn who performed with New West Symphony, dazzling us
with her solo on Scheherazade.

Los Angeles Times
11/24/00

"Pitcairn's performance was
outstanding. The expertise in which she respected the prosody of the
score, (The Red
Violin), revealed its haunting harmonic schemes. Onstage
she expressed passion, poise and confidence."

Celebrations
8/5/00

"Community Foundation recital was
a huge success. Visiting violinist Elizabeth Pitcairn and pianist
Estela Kersenbaum-Olevsky gave first-class performances of music by
Bach, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky."

Anguilla Daily News
1/18/00