".... 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

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

Carl Bauman - American Record Guide
May/June 2003 issue Vol.66 No.3

"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

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

Hampshire Chronicle

2nd March 2001

".....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

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 7th. December 2002

"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

"You played beautifully". Natalie Wanamaker-Javier - Great-Granddaughter of Sergei Rachmaninov

"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 26th May 2005
"…..   In Jadassohn’s Piano Concerto we are treated to a stormy attack. Heroic shrapnel flies every which way in repeated evocations of the Liszt and Schumann piano concertos. Valentina Seferinova is fully in charge and attacks the solo part with great romantic flourish. Her stonily commanding tone is unmistakable.  ….."

Rob Barnett  Music Web International

Valentina Seferinova was a most persuasive soloist in Howell’s Concerto ..”

Bob Briggs  musicweb-international.com  11-11-2010