CHICAGO SYMPHONY

“Its youthful zest [Prokofiev Concerto No. 3] was displayed to the hilt by Zilberstein… More impressive was the graceful, almost effortless navigation of the music’s maddening alternation of the fast and furious with the soulfully lyrical.”

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY

“Lilya Zilberstein opened the program with the best performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 that I have ever heard.”

                                    MILWAUKEE JOURNAL

ST. LOUIS SYMPHONY

“[Zilberstein] is a fabulously gifted artist.”

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

SAN ANTONIO SYMPHONY

“Verdict: If there’s a finer Rachmaninoff pianist in the world nowadays, I don’t know who it might be.”

SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS

RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC

"... Lilya Zilberstein ... made the score sound fresh and compelling ... she can light a piano on fire and never lose control. She tore through the Tchaikovsky [Piano Concerto No. 1] with blazing octave runs and sparkling passage work, getting a big sound when called for and knowing when just a caress was enough."

PROVIDENCE JOURNAL