Review: Kerikeri Piano Competition, New Zealand
"Here is a pianist who has at her disposal a myriad of different colours and who knows how to take the time to let the music speak."
Reviewer: Rae de Lisle for The Scoop, New Zealand, 2010
Review: Kerikeri Piano Competition, New Zealand
"Brieley Cutting...set the bar extremely high for the rest of the contest with Beethoven's "Appassionata". This young woman's range of dynamics from very powerful fortissimos to delicate pianissimos and everything in-between is truly astounding... with an astounding recital by the same contestant who had set the bar so high at the very beginning, Brieley Cutting managing to clear the bar effortlessly with her recital including Scarlatti, Tchaikovsky, and Shostakovich....Some unforgettable moments for me were:..Brieley Cutting's fully-charged, ecstatic Sonata No.1 by Shostakovich."
Reviewer: Mike Nettman for The Bay Chronicle, New Zealand, 2010
Review: Kerikeri Piano Competition, New Zealand
"Whilst the rubato used in Ravel's Jeux d'eau verged on sentimentality, the limpid tones and finally graded nuance certainly conveyed the essence of the music. Her style was well suited to the Preludes by Scriabin and Vine...it was a performance of authority which won her second placing in the competition."
Reviewer: Rae de Lisle for The Northern Advocate, New Zealand, 2010
Review: Mahler's Symphony No.2 for 8 hands, 2 pianos with Angela Turner, Stephen Emmerson and Stewart Kelly. Queensland Conservatorium Theatre for 4MBS.
"To translate this to a version for piano amy appear overly-ambitious. It was clearly a mammoth task for those involved and, as the first professional performance in this form in Queensland, was suprisingly successful and well received. It is impossible to single out any one of the four pianists...as this was a wonderful collaborative effort and required extraordinary concentration and pianistic skills by all of them, not only to manage the tempi with Mahler's progressive tonality, but also to swap the range of instruments that the piano accompaniment represents from one set of deft hands to another."
Reviewer: The Courier Mail, 2010
Review: Beethoven Symphony No.1 (piano duet) with Angela Turner and Sonata No.23 "Appassionata". State Library of Queensland.
"Angela Turner and Brieley Cutting... managed extremely well, given the issues of scale and interpretation, as well as needing to achieve balance, speed and clarity between players... Both introduced excellent orchestral colour and texture into their playing with exciting juxtaposition of two separate "orchestral" stands working against each other and then magically arriving in harmony at the end of movements. They were a joy to watch and hear... Cutting followed this with a youthful and stylish performance of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No.23 Appassionata...Cutting was technically assured with excellent control of the keyboard ...expressive in the darker passaged of the Andante movement, she threw herself feverishly into the Allegro movement almost to exhaustion. It was an impressive rendition of the work from a concert pianist in the making."
Reviewer: Suzannah Conway from The Courier Mail, Brisbane, 2008
