Sylvia Berry in the Press
Review: Bach Collegium San Diego delivers a gripping, empathetic performance
By Luke Schulze for The San Diego Union-Tribune, May 16, 2022
“Berry was everywhere at once, showing how this instrument, with such an ensemble, can be more powerful than a modern piano. Her solo lines weaved through transparent textures in a way not possible with the massive orchestras of later generations…”
Review: “Mozart & Beethoven Quintets” with Les Délices
November 6, 2019
by Daniel Hathaway for ClevelandClassical.com
"Her splendid playing took her up and down the keyboard in lightning-fast scales and passagework, and her thrilling full-voiced chords allowed the fortepiano to assert itself as a real solo instrument."
Review: “Mozart in Paris” with Les Délices
October 10, 20018
by Daniel Hathaway for ClevelandClassical.com
“Berry played with expressive charm . . . responding to lyrical gestures in the strings with elaborate filigree. The large audience responded to the splendid playing during this well-planned, 90-minute travelogue with a long ovation. Many moved on to EDWINS in Shaker Square afterwards to celebrate Les Délices’s tenth anniversary with a benefit evening. Joyeux dixième anniversaire!”
ClevelandClassical.com Interview with Sylvia Berry
October 1, 2018
by Jarrett Hoffman for ClevelandClassical.com
Fortepianist Sylvia Berry will headline a series of performances with Les Délices as the period instrument ensemble gets down to business with its tenth-anniversary season. “Mozart in Paris–Part 2” will feature a surprising arrangement of Mozart’s Gran Partita, readings of his strange and humorous letters, and pieces by three of his contemporaries: Boccherini, Schobert, and Cambini.
What would Mozart do? Interview with Sylvia Berry
April 18, 2018
by Amy Lilly for Seven Days
"People deify these artists," Berry comments, "but it's so much more interesting to find out they were goofy people with humor and sorrows and all those things. Mozart was a great improviser, like a jazz musician."
Interview with Pianist Sylvia Berry
by Peter Burwasser for Fanfare
July/August 2014 (Vol. 37, No. 6)
Q: I must say that I enjoyed your CD immensely. Because of your wonderful playing, and the use of a period instrument, I felt as if I were hearing these pieces for the first time, which, in a way, I was. What led you to your interest in period keyboard playing?