Press Reviews

"The piano part catches one's attention for its virtuosism which the soloist Maria Helena Ferraz interpreted with total abandonment and expertise."

"A vigorous interpretation from the Orchestra and a magnificent interpretation by the soloist Maria Helena Ferraz contributed for the great success."

                  Rafael Vega Bustamante    El Colombiano Newspaper   Colombia

"The Concerto Fribourgeois was played to perfection and with mastery by Maria Helena Ferraz."

                  Bernard Sansonnens    La Liberté Newspaper   Switzerland

"Maria-Helena's interpretation was superb, resolute, consistent…with high technical level perfectly balanced with a matured sensibility of the great interpreters."

     Paulo Jusi    Piracicaba Newspaper    Brazil

"Maria-Helena Ferraz is placed as one of the most profound and brilliant interpreters… She possesses the most prominent qualities that a great artist needs…"

                             Almeida Prado

                             Composer (cited in the New Grove

                  Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed., Vol. 20, 84)

"…Maria-Helena Ferraz is a complete musician. She lets the music flow in a completely organic way, presenting a clear and precise speech. She moves from piano solo to piano accompaniment without ever loosing quality: simple and moving…"

                             TD    La Liberté Newspaper     Switzerland

"…elegance and fluency of her [Maria Helena Ferraz’s] touch…It had beauty, poetry, charm in the expressiveness that overflows the texture of the superb masterpiece…"

    José da Veiga    Newspaper Diário Popular São Paulo    Brazil

"…it was an outstanding achievement not only because of the high quality of the playing, but  because of her [Maria Helena Ferraz’s] knowledge of the score made it possible for her to work so smoothly and so well with the Orchestra. "

                 Maestro Arthur Winograd

                 Former Music Director and Conductor  

                 The Hartford Symphony Orchestra    USA