VANCOUVER SYMPHONY
“Angela Cheng is quite simply one of the best Mozart concerto players around: her sound is invariably transparent and marked by delicacy of feeling. That it always carries, even in a large hall like the Orpheum, is a bit of inexplicable magic.”
VANCOUVER SUN
NEWFOUNDLAND SYMPHONY
“I have seldom seen a soloist so well prepared, so integrated into a concerto as Cheng… Moreover, she made the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 look easy, as she effortlessly and accurately played chordal passages at high speed… [She] gave great definition to the work, shaping each phrase, lending it color, taking their time with the cadences.”
THE TELEGRAM (St. John’s, Canada)
PACIFIC SYMPHONY
“Cheng proved a marvelous technician and stylist. [She] fully comprehended the jazz rhythms and accents and put them across with equal parts verve and clarity. She skimmed a gliding legato, jabbed at offbeat entrances, had a bounce in her step." [Gershwin Piano Concerto in F]
ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER (Costa Mesa)
LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC
“[Angela Cheng’s] lofty transcendent account of Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor deserved some kind of medal … offering a performance that let one forget her virtuosity and hear Schumann’s masterpiece as a brilliant dance between soloist and orchestra.”
TIMES-PICAYUNE (New Orleans)
WINNIPEG SYMPHONY
“The opening Allegro maestoso immediately showcased Cheng's sparkling runs and rhythmic vitality. Her projected tone reached the very back of the hall … her fiery solo cadenza provided a real taste of her bravura… Cheng's clearly articulated playing, and strong conviction with every note tidily in place led to a standing ovation with two curtain calls." [Mozart Piano Concerto No. 25]
WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
TORONTO RECITAL
“More important is the musical evidence that [Cheng] is now speaking not with the voice of generic virtuosity and conventional received wisdom, but with her own voice, about individual works in which she is passionately and artistically involved… It was enthralling.”
GLOBE AND MAIL (Toronto)