“The Juilliard players meticulously balanced their sharply drawn individual voices — including Mr. Rhodes’s velvet-tone viola and the gravelly cello of Mr. Krosnick — with a clear common purpose.“ - Incoming Roger Tapping & Outgoing Sam Rhodes, Alice Tully Hall, THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 27, 2013
“The Juilliarders gave a performance that combined the clearest possible logic with ample grace and lyricism. And in the harrowing finale, with no thought for ‘pretty sounds‘, the players dug into their strings with palpable savagery, bringing the evening to a close of jaw-dropping
intensity and power.“ - Mozart, Carter and Beethoven Quartets, U of WA Meany Hall, THE SEATTLE TIMES, February 7, 2013
“The Juilliard demonstrated how four instrumental voices engaged in Beethovenian conversation can keep an audience spellbound. The musicians approached these summits of Western civilization with scrupulous attention to the composer‘s architectural and expressive innovations.“ - Beethoven Quartets, Cleveland Chamber Society, THE PLAIN DEALER, December 5, 2012
Repeatedly you were impressed by the way the ensemble feels its way through a phrase, shaping it as one... the Juilliard String Quartet continues to offer a textbook case of corporate integrity. - Alice Tully Hall, THE NEW YORK TIMES, November 27, 2012
"The highlight of the evening was a brooding, nuanced interpretation of Janacek's Quartet No. 1 ("Kreutzer Sonata"), inspired by Tolstoy's novella of the same name and written while Janacek was infatuated with a married woman. Mr. Lin and his colleagues - Ronald Copes, second violinist; Samuel Rhodes, violist; and Joel Krosnick, cellist - aptly conveyed the yearning, urgency and bittersweet joviality of this richly scored work." - Alice Tully Hall concert review, THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 22, 2012
"Hough's all-American programme was conceived in honour of his guests for the evening, the New York-based Juilliard Quartet, who performed Elliot Carter's fifth String Quartet with precisely the mixture of seamless precision and depth of tonal character this music requires." - Wigmore Hall concert review, THE GUARDIAN, January 25, 2012
"The ensemble was at its most muscular and sumptuous in the Beethoven. The players gave an enveloping, fluid account of the mammoth fugue, and though the rest of the work often pales beside that outsize finale, the quartet's careful accenting and dynamic freedom brought the emotional depths of the first five movements fully into focus." - Juilliard School faculty concert at Alice Tully Hall, New York Times, November 29, 2011
"For those who were watching the "new, young kid" and trying to discern his musicianship and how he fit in, it was apparent that Joseph Lin is a violinist of unerring technique, exquisite tone and sensitive phrasing, who is also an effective leader of his vastly more experienced band mates...It would be great music even played at that surface level, but when the Juilliard Quartet spoke they delved deeply into the ambivalence, pain and struggle that is life itself." - Raleigh Chamber Music Guild, CNVC Online Arts Journal, March 20, 2011
"The Juilliard storehouse of institutional comprehension shows why one event follows another in the Bartok Fifth...The more strange the music became over the piece's five movements, the greater the performance's intellectual conviction." - Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 17, 2010
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Incoming Roger Tapping & Outgoing Sam Rhodes, Alice Tully Hall, THE NEW YORK TIMES (February 27, 2013)
