“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..”
