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| "Brilliant playing with lots of flair and personality.. very exciting and convincing." | ||
| Raymond Herbert | ||
| "Louise Billaud scaled the pianistic equivalent of Mount McKinley in her performance of Italian composer Goffredo Petrassi's Toccata... Her fingers ' flashdanced' through this technical tour-de-force." | ||
| Anchorage Daily News | ||
| "It is not often that a composer receives such intense and abundant solidarity from an interpreter.. and with this I am deeply satisfied." | ||
| Goffredo Petrassi (Rome) | ||
| "A notable and remarkable recital. Louise Billaud 'The American' has conquered her public." | ||
| Le Dauphiné Libéré (France) | ||
| "She plays with profound musical insight and great technical virtuosity. I am very pleased to have such a fine pianist perform my works on her concert programs." | ||
| Kent Holliday (Virginia) | ||
| "The American Louise Billaud swept the audience off its feet...such a depth, such a harmonic richness, such a sonorous plenitude. The orchestra discreetly let the soloist display a pianistic temperament of fire." | ||
| Vaucluse Matin (France) | ||
| "Miss Billaud delighted us from the beginning with the brilliantly played romantic compositions of Mendelssohn and Rachmaninoff, followed by a four-movement sonata by Kent Holliday, a well-organized 21st-century composition exuberant with flowing polyrhythmic patterns woven around the themes...Indeed, the clever ostinato pulsating the second movement, a morbid slow third movement (written in remembrance of the victims of Sept. 11) and a grand finale with a relentless percussive thrust, led the audience to jump on their feet at its end! The public enthusiasm was ewarded with two encores filled with the same vitality." | ||
Roger Ermili for the Green Valley News & Sun (Arizona) |
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