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New York Epoch Times
"...Ellen powered her way through Prokofiev’s finger-twisting complexities as if they were a nursery rhyme. The lyrical passages pulsed with emotion, while her dazzling octaves at the close were spectacular. Ellen generated massive sonorities, producing a particularly rich, resonant bass register on Carnegie’s 9-foot Steinway Grand. She is a major talent."
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The Journal of Music
"The true find of the festival though was perhaps Ellen Jansson’s performance of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s Das Jahr ... Its moods flit from ringing, brass-like fanfare to a delicately detailed texture – as speaker Diana Ambache described one movement, ‘capricious as the changing weather’. These different moods were ably managed by Jansson with a nuanced performance particularly notable for her ability to bring out of the complex music a wonderful sense of movement."
Finding a Voice Festival, Photo: John Kelly