Music Reviews

"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, Italy)

"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)

"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 awarded with two encores filled with the same vitality." - Roger Ermili for the Green Valley News & Suni (Arizona)