One of the best professional groups in the business………..in short Onyx Brass looks and sounds like a smart operation.
Classical Music Magazine, April 2006
The Onyx Brass quintet came to Weymouth Music Club with the high standards of musicianship that we have come to expect — technical expertise, rhythmic precision, beautiful tone and great ensemble playing
Dorset Echo, November 2004
The Onyx Brass concert was wonderful. It was a great program and beautifully performed. British brass players produce a very special sound. Members of the Onyx Brass were also great to deal with and members of the audience enjoyed visiting with them after the concert.
Tom McClintock, Corvallis-OSU Music Association, OR, presenter
What a terrific success the concert by Onyx Brass was. The large audience was obviously taken with these wonderful music makers. Not only are the members of Onyx Brass superb musicians able to produce rich, burnished sounds, they are also some of the most amiable and simpatico young musicians we have encountered in 25 years of presenting concerts.
Richard Cummins, Greene Memorial Church, Roanoke VA, presenter
Really top-notch! A wonderful ensemble.
Kevin Stees, James Madison University, Harrisonburg VA, presenter
Five stars out of five… the premise of this delightful album builds a dialogue between Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier and Shostakovich’s own studies in the form, orchestrated for the clarion tones of the Onyx Brass ensemble…Bach’s originals emerge refreshed by this new instrumental context.
Classic FM on Fugue, August 2008
This is a splendidly planned and executed release, which no devotee of either composer could fail to enjoy…Apart from the exhilaration of the playing and the superb quality of the recording, made in a north London church, the disc has a nice pogical structure…
IRR on Fugue, July/August 2008