“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.”
“Ensemble Pi examine[s] political activism in music”
“Classical Traditions Kept and Upended”
“A socially conscious new music group”
“Ensemble Pi plays ‘notorious’ Cowell…was appealingly atmospheric… this was involving music, expressively played by Meshulam.”
“The music had style and lilt, and the audience loved them, judging by the long, loud applause; they ran eight minutes.”
“…featuring politically evocative and lyrically compelling works from around the world, written in response to war and oppression.”
“Composition to do Battle with War and Injustice”… “music performed clearly evoked conflict and anguish…gracefully played…a fiery and emotive performance..”