by justine.gelis@hotmail.fr | Feb 1, 2020 | Press
OPUS KLASSIEK, Aart van der Wal ….Contrasts which also testify to the intense musicality of the protagonist: the young French violinist Virgil Boutellis-Taft, who with his evocative playing opens up a real world of wonder making a strong impression. We are dealing...
by justine.gelis@hotmail.fr | Dec 1, 2016 | Press
MUSICAL EDUCATION, Edith Weber From the outset, they [Virgil Boutellis-Taft and Guillaume Vincent] impose themselves by the reciprocity of their listening and the brilliance of their phrasing in The Crane whose roughness they feel perfectly and whose inexpressible...
by justine.gelis@hotmail.fr | Nov 3, 2016 | Press
ON Mag, Michel Jakubowicz The violinist Virgil Boutellis-Taft combines impeccable sound with an impressive virtuosity flying over all the unbounded difficulties that are to be found in these scores …. To put it briefly, a highly successful trip between East and...
by justine.gelis@hotmail.fr | Nov 1, 2016 | Press
CLASSICA, Jacques Bonnaire Virgil Boutellis-Taft is an interesting musical personality. Lovely sonority, beautiful imagination in the playing of timbres, and great precision, which in no way excludes a captivating expressivity, especially in the “oriental”...
by justine.gelis@hotmail.fr | Oct 27, 2016 | Press
LE BABILLARD, Loïc Chahine … intense, brilliant, sumptuous sonority over the whole range of the violin of Virgil Boutellis-Taft, very “into the string”, magnified by a very sure bow … Let’s listen to the “Intermède” of Debussy’s...
