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Huntington, WV Herald Dispatch ~ February 25, 2012

Thomas Stacy: 2005 GRAMMY NOMINEE
Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (with Orchestra)

"He must be the Heifetz, or maybe the Kreisler of the English Horn. His innate musicality swept all before him..."

THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Stacy obviously is in love with his oboe d'amore and from the way he plays it, everyone is going to follow him like a Pied Piper"

NEW YORK POST

"Shouts of 'bravo' echoed through the Kennedy Center's Concert Hall for an English Horn player. The enthusiasm was well merited... by Thomas Stacy's sensitive playing "

THE WASHINGTON POST

"The masterful soloist Thomas Stacy created magic..."

LEIPZIGER VOLKSAETTUNG

"...a wonderful instrumentalist with an unfaltering lip and lungs of steel-belted rubber... he produced an unfailingly rich, fat sound."

THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Stacy's dedicated and utterly skillful performance was nothing short of magnificent"

NEW YORK POST

"...played beautifully by Thomas Stacy, who quickly took the opportunity to show that the English Horn can also be put to brilliant use."

BERLINGSKE TIDENDE (Copenhagen)

"Virtuosity was the name of the game when Thomas Stacy played. Amazing technical facility, control of color and dynamic levels"

THE ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS

"...incredible technical skill as well as tonal control. Stacy demonstrated a true and unwavering tone, dark and sensuous."

ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT

 

"The best part of the evening was Ned Rorem's concerto for cor anglais... enchantingly performed by Thomas Stacy"

THE SCOTSMAN (Edinburgh)

 

"Mr. Stacy blew sinuous strands... His instrument sang..."

EVENING STANDARD (London)

 

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