"Quotable Quotes ...."

".... you are a great artiste and a great pianist, and you understand Schubert .........there are probably 3 pianists on the face of the earth who can do this (Schubert's "Sonata in B flat major") - you're one of them.    ..... a great artiste and a great musician (putting herself) at the service of the music - 100%.    ...this was a great encounter - because you're a tremendous musician; and a great spirit; I mean huge, - and you have everything.  Thank you for being available"

Benjamin Zander

Conductor - Boston Philharmonic Orchestra

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"....Ms Seferinova has a grand technique and plays brilliantly."

Carl Bauman - American Record Guide

May/June 2003 issue Vol.66 No.3

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"Valentina Seferinova takes on a difficult task, ......  She is a fluent pianist, and does a fine job..."

Paul Turok - Turok's Choice

N.Y.,USA Issue No. 147, September 2003

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Stunning accuracy marks piano recital from Miss Seferinova ...."

Click here for full review by Hampshire Chronicle  2^nd March 2001

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".....I understand that Miss Seferinova was one of the leading pianists in her native Bulgaria  .........  She has an impressively fluent technique.  Their loss is our gain."

Peter Davies

Newbury Weekly News   27th November 2001

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SEFERINOVA RECITAL TRIUMPH   -   "....gave a stunning all-Raff recital...."

"...- stunning accuracy, a real feel for the architecture of each piece and an understanding of the contrasting elements of Raff's style, integrating the warmly lyrical with the contrapuntal and fugal. ..... an emotional intensity expressed by ....... She seems a pianist of rare talents - whilst the delicacy might be expected from her small frame, the sheer power is more of a surprise.   .......her total dedication to what she was playing. .... .On this showing she is a fine artist indeed and richly deserves success in the wider repertoire on the national and international stage."

Mark Thomas of The Joachim Raff Society

reviewing a live recital on 7^th. December 2002

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"I write to say a very big 'thank-you' for visiting Winchester the other Tuesday and presenting such an outstandingly virtuoso performance.  The appreciation expressed by members of the audience afterwards was considerable."

Winchester Cathedral

Sept. '04

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Recital for The Rachmaninoff Society's 2005 AGM in London
In the presence of Natalie Wanamaker-Javier and Peter Wanamaker - both Great Grand-Children of Sergei Rachmaninov.

Valentina with Peter and Natalie after the recital

with Natalie commenting "You played beautifully".

 - 30th April 2005

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Pianist's range spellbinding    

"The capacity audience at Chichester Cathedral for Valentina Seferinova's piano recital was held spellbound by (her) virtuosic range .... Swiss-born romantic composer Joachim Raff sounding like Liszt, and like Liszt demanding the finest technique.  This technique Valentina has, ...    "

Maureen Wright

reproduced by permission of the Chichester Observer 26^th May 2005.

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