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Görlitz, Germany 5/22/02
Bach to the Bauhaus and Beyond

“Genial and spirited, the pianist fascinated her audience with a concert that was out of the ordinary in every way, a brilliant journey through the 20th century with great excursions into Bach and Mozart.”—Sächsische Zeitung

Piano Ruhr Festival 6/26/02
Music from the Bauhaus: Stephan Wolpe and his circle

“They would not have been able to find a better advocate of this music, by Stefan Wolpe for example, Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt or Ernst Krenek, than Veronica Jochum. What [she] had to offer was amazing: for example Busoni’s ‘3 kurze Stücke zur Pflege des polyphonen Spiels’—extraordinarily demanding—she performed profoundly, masterfully and seemingly without effort.”—Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung

“… to have a piece of musical history be presented so lively and exciting as at her piano festival evening at the Bochum Museum is a stroke of luck. A very interesting evening, that was a lot of fun and, fittingly, ended with a frisky Shimmy and some Ragtime.”—Ruhr Nachrichten

“… she has not only specialized in performing her program masterfully and brilliantly, but also in presenting composer and work in a very personal talk. An extraordinary evening!”—Westfälische Rundschau

Schleissheimer Schlosskonzerte 7/19/02
Munich Chamber Orchestra, Christoph Poppen conducting
Mozart Piano Concerto in E-flat major, K. 449

“Freshness, eloquence and the cultured touch of the alert and engaging last Grande Dame of the Piano…”—Süddeutsche Zeitung Muenchen

Ottobeuren, Germany 7/20/02
Munich Chamber Orchestra, Christoph Poppen conducting
Mozart Piano Concerto in E-flat major, K. 449

“… a very personal statement: A performance shaped by worldly wisdom that was both introverted and at times ebullient.”—Memminger Zeitung

Leipzig, Germany 8/3/02
Commentary concert at the “Sommerakademie”: Music at the Time of Bauhaus

“Veronica Jochum is an institution at the piano.”—Leipziger Volkszeitung

Munich, Germany 10/20/02
Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis conducting
Mozart Piano Concerto in A major, K. 488

“… she showed her superiority and pianistic experience in the slow movement, with extraordinarily dense sound colors and a precise sense for the shape of the tone.”—Süddeutsche Zeitung

St. Gallen, Switzerland 10/31/02
Symphony Orchestra of St. Gallen, Petri Sakari conducting
Mozart Piano Concerto in A major, K. 488

“At the center stood Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A major, K. 488, which was performed by the pianist with mature interpretative art and technical facility. [The] Brahms [encore] seems to belong to her strong points on the piano as well, her interpretation breathed the same warmth and naturalness as the late Eugen Jochum radiated.”—St. Galler Nachrichten

“As a soloist, [she] becomes an integral part of the orchestra and with strings and wind instruments she achieves a chamber-like intensity and shapes the effective passages very vocally.”—St. Galler Tageblatt

Ulm, Germany 12/10/02
Ulm Philharmonic Orchestra, James Allen Gähres conducting
Mozart Piano Concerto in A major, K. 488

“Jochum was brilliantly triumphant and impressed with a delicate and soulful touch…huge applause in a sold out house.”—Schwäbische Zeitung

“… she ‘sang’ the Mozart on the keys. With a clear, beautiful touch and a temperamental but warm performance, she conveyed a matter-of-factness and sovereignty.”—Südwest Presse

Spokane, Washington 1/31/03
The Northwest Bach Festival

“From the very opening of Bach’s Toccata in E minor, Jochum made the piano sing with the clarity and rich sonority of a fine pipe organ. [She] brought [the F major invention] off with flair and secure brilliance. I have never heard [the Chromatic Fantasy] played so movingly. What more can be said after such a spiritual adventure?”—The Spokesman Review

Boston, Massachusetts 3/15/03
Steinway 150th Anniversary at Symphony Hall

“Veronica Jochum was eloquent in a Brahms Intermezzo…”—Boston Globe

Görlitz, Germany 7/21/03
International Summer School for the Arts

"...a pianist as charismatic as virtuoso..."—Sächsische Zeitung

Gramophone November 2003
Review of Piano Masterworks of Busoni (GM2042CD)
"In dexterity and rhythmic clarity, Jochum is at the level of the best Busoni exponents..."—Arved Ashby

Boston, Massachusetts 04/04/04
Mozart's Piano Concerto K. 449 with the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston (Gunther Schuller, cond.)

"This is not one of the most often heard Mozart concertos, but it is no less full of marvels than those that are, and Jochum played it with a lovely, full sound; stylistic smarts; energy, intelligence, and feeling. She may not be as fastidiously flawless as other Mozart players, but she is more human, and that is better."—Richard Dyer, Boston Globe

Boston, Massachusetts 10/17/04
World premieres of new pieces by Osvaldo Golijov and John McDonald, as well as pieces by Bach, Brahms, and Frank Martin at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall.

"Jochum's playing throughout the evening was notable for rhythmic definition and for a highly cultivated sense of sound, timbre, and touch. Brahms's two-piano version of music best known as his Piano Quintet found Jochum in sympathetic partnership with her former student Randall Hodgkinson."
—Richard Dyer, Boston Globe