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 otova gave the audience a powerful Canadian debut...
She has a wild-flower technique, a bouquet of tones, easy, fresh, colorful, innocent and extremely musical.
Her artistry is traceless, a Zen poem about the moon reflected in a clear pool, vivid and bright..."
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 ne jeune pianiste extraordinaire... Elle nous interpretait,
avec brio et sans faille, un prelude de Rachmaninov, les Dix etudes de Liszt,
une Sarabande de l'Ukrainien Kosenko et Islamey de Balakirev, quatre oevres et d'une grande
prouesse technique."
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 he (Brahms) Horn Trio was first rate. Zotova has a remarkable
away of cutting directly to the music. Her tone is always warm and clear and her
technique pristine."
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 he took us with her for an exhilarating flight to the heart of 19th century virtuoso pianism.
Zotova showed a musical imagination the equal of her formidable technical command of the piano."
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ksana Zotova flooded the gates of Heaven with a 30 page
cloudburst of notes in Balakirev's virtuoso showpiece, Islamey - Oriental
Fantasy. All but unplayable, there is no harder piece in the piano repertoire
than the Balakirev... But it was the piano (and maybe the audience) who were
left gasping for breath when she finished."
er Haydn was delicate, her Rachmaninov sweet and warm and
entirely without bombast. Her touch and her sensational clarity in the
Gnomenreigen with its sprays of treble notes and its spooky bass motives both
astonished and delighted."
