"Balter has a wickedly original sense of humor and a fiercely imaginative palette of instrumental and vocal sounds rare in today's dour, post-classical new music." - John von Rheim, The Chicago Tribune. "Balter produces new music - all gemstone-polished - at a rate other composers marvel at." - Graham Meyer, Chicago Magazine. "The evening's new work, Chambers, a three-movement piece commissioned from Chicago-based composer Marcos Balter, proved a mesmerizing plunge into icy musical depths. (...) This is a gorgeous piece, well worth hearing again." - Wynne Delacoma, Musical America. "A sizable, chatty audience fell silent as Samuel Z. Solomon, an adroit percussionist, played Marcos Balter's frenetic 'Descarga.' " - Steve Smith, The New York Times. "First on the program, Marcos Balter's 'Edgewater' was like a bucket of ice water to the face - and I mean that in the best way possible. (...) It was a short jolt of electricity, economically constructed, and masterfully focused and expressive." - Thomas Deneuville, Chamber Musician Today. "Marcos Balter's 2005 'Raw Item' had both intricate clarity and a convincing trajectory - with a solo oboe (James Austin Smith, confident and controlled) spurring mutable sonic orreries from an instrumental quartet, the piece reached a kind of furious repose, a virtuosic equilibrium of colliding particles." - Matthew Guerrieri, The Boston Globe.
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