« This young man possesses, most certainly, a romantic sensibility but he also knows how to go beyond lyrical deployment, he knows how to deepen the musical line to open troubling, almost magnetic perspectives. »

ALAIN DUAULT, CLASSICA 2021

« Intimate and inward-looking playing perfectly suits a memorable recital programme […] a touching emotional continuity that resonates long in the memory after the music has faded gently away »

– THE STRAD, Julian Haylock –

« This perfectly romantic album is an astonishing depth, even overwhelming with beauty »

– Classique News, Sabino Pena Arcia –

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Biography

 

Virgil Boutellis-Taft shares his life between Europe and America. Hailed by critics as an “outstanding violinist” with “intense, brilliant, sumptuous sonority” and “impressive virtuosity”, he performs as a soloist and chamber musician in major concert halls on both continents; the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall…

Biography

 

Virgil Boutellis-Taft shares his life between Europe and America. Hailed by critics as an “outstanding violinist” with “intense, brilliant, sumptuous sonority” and “impressive virtuosity”, he performs as a soloist and chamber musician in major concert halls on both continents; the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall…

Press & Media

Blogcritics.org, Jon Sobel

A transportive and deeply felt reading. The violinist’s formidable double-stopping, along with his technique of striking the string hard enough to generate distortion, magnified the pathos

CLASSICA, Alain Duault

«What first impresses you in Virgil Boutellis-Taft’s playing is the plenitude of a warm and pure sound, elegant and sensual, which marvelously develops the expressive intensity of Kol Nidrei by Bruch or of Nigun by Bloch.(…) An album to live with. » – Alain Duault