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"Bolleia tackled Wuorinen’s complex, gnarly, and often bombastic piece with a balance of precision and power. Bolleia’s playing was impressive in both technique and commitment to what the music tries to say.”
- New York Classical Review
"Shows a heightened affinity for the music...Carl Patrick Bolleia [is] savouring the novel, harmonic flights in Frederic Rzewski's Down by the Riverside." - Gramophone
“Bolleia is found capturing all of the quirkiness and chameleon changes of the score... it arrives like a blaze of light and continues to glow magnificently.”- Fanfare
“Full of fire and fury, this rhythmically elastic tangle transpires in fragmented, miniature episodes. Carl Patrick Bolleia’s consistent energy and aesthetic touch resulted in an assured and convincing, indeed emotionally striking, experience.” - blogcritics
“When I heard incredible world-class composer and pianist Carl Bolleia perform it gave me chills. It’s a moment I will never forget.” - Forbes
"The caliber of the performances was uniformly high, affording many perspectives on the [Rzewski's] restless, questing mind, his love of all kinds of music from work songs to jazz to whatever comes under the heading “classical,” and his passion for social justice. Protesters singing “This Little Light of Mine” at a nuclear-weapons lab inspired pianist Carl Patrick Bolleia to suggest a piece to Rzewski, who responded in 2019 with Let It Shine, a muscular scherzando with bluesy inflections. Bolleia’s volatile performance kick-started Saturday’s marathon in classic Rzewski fashion." - New York Classical Review
"Handsome performances."- Gramophone
“Arresting performances…technical proficiency and musical insight were in abundance…sensitively performed… all these substantial movements demanded, and got, enormous concentration and stamina from Bolleia [who] mustered still more energy to bring this taxing piece to its fierce conclusion” - New York Classical Review
“A muscular rendering of Charles Wuorinen’s The Blue Bamboula...Bolleia realized that spirit with humor, like when he made knowing audience members chuckle by allowing ample space for an allusion to the opening bars of Tchaikovsky’s first piano concerto.” - EarRelevant
"Excellent Playing." - Charles Wuorinen
“I do want to hear much more from them on disc, Carl Patrick Bolleia in particular.” - MusicWeb International
"Highlight of the evening... this stunning virtuosic piece was played brilliantly by pianist Carl Patrick Bolleia. A Must Hear concert!” - WWFM, New Jerseys Classical Station
"Carl Patrick Bolleia is heard from in Frederick Rzewski‟s “Down by the Riverside,” a virtuosic work with so many diverse tonal and stylistic elements that any description would fill the rest of this column – and he makes it all accessible, too!
- Audio Society of Atlanta
“...expertly played and recorded, with interesting booklet notes.” - American Record Guide
“The highlight was the world premiere of “The Beginning for piano and orchestra in three movements by the young composer Jinsil Lee (Korea). The chamber orchestra played with the excellent Carl Bolleia"... “Musician and composer received frenetic applause…” - Die Niederösterreichischen Nachrichten, Austria
"Stealth and Suavity.... an uninhibited player." - New York Concert Review
- New York Classical Review
"Shows a heightened affinity for the music...Carl Patrick Bolleia [is] savouring the novel, harmonic flights in Frederic Rzewski's Down by the Riverside." - Gramophone
“Bolleia is found capturing all of the quirkiness and chameleon changes of the score... it arrives like a blaze of light and continues to glow magnificently.”- Fanfare
“Full of fire and fury, this rhythmically elastic tangle transpires in fragmented, miniature episodes. Carl Patrick Bolleia’s consistent energy and aesthetic touch resulted in an assured and convincing, indeed emotionally striking, experience.” - blogcritics
“When I heard incredible world-class composer and pianist Carl Bolleia perform it gave me chills. It’s a moment I will never forget.” - Forbes
"The caliber of the performances was uniformly high, affording many perspectives on the [Rzewski's] restless, questing mind, his love of all kinds of music from work songs to jazz to whatever comes under the heading “classical,” and his passion for social justice. Protesters singing “This Little Light of Mine” at a nuclear-weapons lab inspired pianist Carl Patrick Bolleia to suggest a piece to Rzewski, who responded in 2019 with Let It Shine, a muscular scherzando with bluesy inflections. Bolleia’s volatile performance kick-started Saturday’s marathon in classic Rzewski fashion." - New York Classical Review
"Handsome performances."- Gramophone
“Arresting performances…technical proficiency and musical insight were in abundance…sensitively performed… all these substantial movements demanded, and got, enormous concentration and stamina from Bolleia [who] mustered still more energy to bring this taxing piece to its fierce conclusion” - New York Classical Review
“A muscular rendering of Charles Wuorinen’s The Blue Bamboula...Bolleia realized that spirit with humor, like when he made knowing audience members chuckle by allowing ample space for an allusion to the opening bars of Tchaikovsky’s first piano concerto.” - EarRelevant
"Excellent Playing." - Charles Wuorinen
“I do want to hear much more from them on disc, Carl Patrick Bolleia in particular.” - MusicWeb International
"Highlight of the evening... this stunning virtuosic piece was played brilliantly by pianist Carl Patrick Bolleia. A Must Hear concert!” - WWFM, New Jerseys Classical Station
"Carl Patrick Bolleia is heard from in Frederick Rzewski‟s “Down by the Riverside,” a virtuosic work with so many diverse tonal and stylistic elements that any description would fill the rest of this column – and he makes it all accessible, too!
- Audio Society of Atlanta
“...expertly played and recorded, with interesting booklet notes.” - American Record Guide
“The highlight was the world premiere of “The Beginning for piano and orchestra in three movements by the young composer Jinsil Lee (Korea). The chamber orchestra played with the excellent Carl Bolleia"... “Musician and composer received frenetic applause…” - Die Niederösterreichischen Nachrichten, Austria
"Stealth and Suavity.... an uninhibited player." - New York Concert Review
HIGHLIGHTS!
2020 New Recording Release: Peter Jarvis and Friends, Volume 3
Performances on WQXR: The Greene Space & EMA San Francisco Early Music Society Festival & Living Room Salons
Community Cadence Online Collaboration with National Sawdust and The Juilliard School: CC1; CC2; CC3
FREDERIC RZEWSKI composes "LET IT SHINE!" for Carl Patrick Bolleia's SOLO DEBUT RECITAL @ Carnegie Hall!
The New York Times and The New Yorker showcase Spectrum Rzewski Festival
Recording: The Music of Peter Jarvis and Ron Mazurek, Nocturne for Piano
Recording: Piano Celebration, Volume 2, Paul Reale, Music for Two Pianos and Four Hands
Recording: Piano Celebration, Volume 1, Performer & Author of the liner notes
2020 New Recording Release: Peter Jarvis and Friends, Volume 3
Performances on WQXR: The Greene Space & EMA San Francisco Early Music Society Festival & Living Room Salons
Community Cadence Online Collaboration with National Sawdust and The Juilliard School: CC1; CC2; CC3
FREDERIC RZEWSKI composes "LET IT SHINE!" for Carl Patrick Bolleia's SOLO DEBUT RECITAL @ Carnegie Hall!
The New York Times and The New Yorker showcase Spectrum Rzewski Festival
Recording: The Music of Peter Jarvis and Ron Mazurek, Nocturne for Piano
Recording: Piano Celebration, Volume 2, Paul Reale, Music for Two Pianos and Four Hands
Recording: Piano Celebration, Volume 1, Performer & Author of the liner notes