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...
by justine.gelis@hotmail.fr | Jan 1, 2015 | Press
Ouest-France, Daniel MORVAN …Proof that with a bow you can get thrills from Johann Sebastian Bach. Read more on...
by justine.gelis@hotmail.fr | Jun 1, 2014 | Press
Classique News, Sabino Pena Arcia Boutellis-Taft interprets [Bloch] with forceful vigor… impressive sound effects… In Janacek’s Sonata… he delights the audience with his dexterity, spirit, and great sensitivity… In the Debussy...
by justine.gelis@hotmail.fr | Dec 1, 2013 | Press
ResMusica, Héloïse B. Oléari …he played with great brio – ease of the bow, impeccable left hand and such musical intelligence … we can only praise, in addition to the professionalism of the violinist, his fabulous energy, which held us spellbound...