“Dust and the Moon is the debut album by a remarkable act called Rite of Strings.”

"Dave Soldier’s Vipers at the Onyx is an orchestral portrait of a composer whose career has consistently ignored stylistic boundaries."

What Belongs To You featured on Tafelmusik (NTS Radio) with Francesco Fusaro

“What Belongs to You transforms Greenwell's painful intimacy into a musical drama where word, memory and timbre reveal the fragility of human bonds.”

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"Tender and confronting, it roughs you up while giving you a lesson in music-theatre. Not bad for an opera with a cast of one."

“Each and everyone of them is a seasoned and top notch instrumentalist.”

“The result is a deeply collaborative recording that moves effortlessly between lyrical intimacy, cinematic atmosphere, rhythmic vitality, and spontaneous musical conversation — music that feels both ancient and contemporary, rooted in tradition while speaking with a distinctly modern voice.”

Global Village, the NPR-affiliated world music program hosted by Chris Heim, highlights Dust and the Moon, the new album from Rite of Strings

“24 American Caprices finds Curtis Stewart standing tall.”

[Melemed] makes a striking debut CD with a program that pairs canonical piano works with contemporary responses to them.