“With this poignant and powerfully curated program, Ensemble Pi reminds us that the commitment to be a socially conscious artist means engaging thoughtfully with today’s critical issues. It means commissioning and performing work by today’s composers. It means creating a space to reflect and conversate, to share knowledge and resources. Music and art must not be a place into which we solely retreat, but a space to hold difficult, even painful conversations, and demand justice.”
— FROM I CARE IF YOU LISTEN BY JILLIAN DEGROOT
“Ensemble Pi examine[s] political activism in music”
— TIME OUT NEW YORK BY ALAN LOCKWOOD
“Classical Traditions Kept and Upended”
— NEW YORK TIMES BY BERNARD HOLLAND
“A socially conscious new music group”
— TIME OUT NEW YORK
“Ensemble Pi plays ‘notorious’ Cowell…was appealingly atmospheric… this was involving music, expressively played by Meshulam.”
— STAR-LEDGE BY BRADLEY BAMBARGER
“The music had style and lilt, and the audience loved them, judging by the long, loud applause; they ran eight minutes.”
— NEW MUSIC CONNOISSEUR
“…featuring politically evocative and lyrically compelling works from around the world, written in response to war and oppression.”
— COOPER UNION NEWS
“Composition to do Battle with War and Injustice”… “music performed clearly evoked conflict and anguish…gracefully played…a fiery and emotive performance..”
