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Critical Acclaim:

"...every player was not only alert but brilliantly assured. It is hard to do justice to the effect of such playing, vividly committed from top to bottom..."
Financial Times, London

"The ensemble produced a beautiful homogeneous sound. Under the baton of guest conductor Airat Ichmouratov, I Musici di Montréal performed the work with admirable subtlety and finesse."
Kansas City Star

"...winning, persuasive artists of the highest caliber..."
Washington Times

"This ensemble had real force, real impact...This cocktail gave us an extremely successful evening thanks to, and principally because of, the musicians who worked as a unit and who were visibly happy to be there."
Le Devoir

"A highlight was the delicate phrasing of the Serenade. Turovsky poured passion into the interpretation, but kept it from an over-romantized reading."
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"But among the chamber orchestras of international calibre that have played at Leipzig's Gewandhaus, I Musici de Montréal stands out with a unique character, no doubt instilled by its founder and artistic director, Yuli Turovsky."
Leipiziger Volkszeitung

"...playing of great technical precision, warmth and fine rhythmic elan."
Sunday Times, London

"The ensemble was very tight, even without a conductor.[Turovsky was the cello soloist] Entrances were secure, dynamics were observed, and rhythmic flexibility was achieved. Turovsky is a cellist of great virtuosity and expressiveness."
Palm Beach Daily News

"A spellbindingly unified ensemble."
The Toronto Star

"Whiplash precision and tension"
Stereo Review, New York

"Most touring orchestras play it safe, but not I Musici de Montréal, the Canadian chamber orchestra that performed Monday evening at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. Under the direction of its energetic founding conductor Yuli Turovsky, the ensemble presented an interestingly crafted program of both old and new music that elicited from the audience applause as thunderous as the rain that beat down on Palm Beach County during the afternoon."
Palm Beach Post

"I Musici proved a phenomenon...The 14 strings played with the perfection of 14 virtuoso soloists."
South China Morning Post, Hong Kong

"The Incredible String Band"
The Independent, London

"A trio of works with string orchestra reveals a wealth of invention and virtuosity."
BBC Music Magazine

"From this orchestra, I Musici de Montréal, comes a rich and warm sound. Yuli Turovsky draws out of them a superb performance."
Yedioth Ahronoth, Tel Aviv

"...the performances were outstanding."
Fanfare Magazine

"...a light, highly strung group, with superb sonority, superior organization, under the conducting of Yuli Turovsky."
Le Méridional, Marseille, France

"A contemporary French-Canadian composer, [Denis] Gougeon's semi-theatrical work stole the show. Beginning with Turovsky alone on stage playing the cello, orchestra members entered playing an arpeggio of harmonics. They play the undulating piece with its many solos until undergoing a choreographed shift for the last chord. I thought it a marvelous and becoming mix of music and theatrics."
Piitsburgh Post-Gazette  

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition Film Concert Review:

"Filmmaker Gael Hollard gave them life in video animation, which was projected center stage and flanked by the musicians. Without resorting to showy technical gimmickry, this was a truly artistic meeting of art forms that reached from the humor of dancing eggs with protruding legs and beaks to ominous images in catacombs." Birmingham News/al.com More...