Reviews
Quotes
Featured
“Cahill’s performance [was] mesmerizing and organic.”
— New Music Box —
“A formidable modern pianist”
— PopMatters —
“Sarah Cahill plays with unaffected subtlety and sensitivity.”
— Classics Today —
“A sterling pianist and an intrepid illuminator of the classical avant-garde…”
— The New York Times —
“Pianist Sarah Cahill commands a near godlike status among fans of contemporary classical music.”
— NPR Music —
“Ms. Cahill offers fluid interpretations of works from Mr. Riley’s copious solo piano output, as well as four-hand piano pieces, which she and Regina Myers play with impressive unity and an ear for Mr. Riley’s chameleon-like style morphing.”
— The Wall Street Journal —
“keen and captivating pianist”
— The Washington Post —
"The feminist slogan 'The Future is Female' is shown on the front cover, held up on a protest sign. And as this recording shows, the past was female too, it's just that women are often written out of it. Here, then, is an alternative history of solo piano music - and one that's delivered with real conviction by pianist Sarah Cahill."
— BBC Music Magazine —
“I would say never miss a recital by Cahill, but that’s obviously impossible since she averages, what, one a week? No wonder she’s on top of current music: she’s played all of it.”
— San Francisco Classical Voice —
“a persuasive advocate for American experimentalist composers”
— The Chicago Tribune —
“Through her inspired interpretation of works across the 20th and 21st centuries, Cahill has been instrumental in bringing to life the music of many of our greatest living composers.”
— Keyboard Magazine —
“A brilliant and charismatic advocate for modern and contemporary composers...”
— Time Out New York —
“As tenacious and committed an advocate as any composer could dream of…”
— San Francisco Chronicle —
"She is... a vessel through which musical ideas can pass, a communicator whose technique is put at the service of empathy and understanding. Her devotion to promoting music not yet in the mainstream is impressive: almost every piece on this program had come into being as the result of her commissioning requests."
— San Diego Union Tribune —
“A leading light of the new-music piano scene…”
— The New York Times —
“Apart from being an exceptional pianist and muse to scores of inventive composers, Sarah Cahill is a first-rate communicator who specializes in connecting the music she plays to broader streams of everyday life.”
— Time Out New York —
“The doyenne of contemporary keyboard music...”
— Financial Times —
“Cahill… played with a virtuosity that demonstrated Cowell’s precise command of his peculiar art.”
— The New Yorker —
“fiercely gifted”
— The New York Times —