Reviews & Features

Marlboro has been fortunate to receive in-depth profiles in the local, national, and international press. Below is a selection of notable articles that have been written about Marlboro, exploring what Alex Ross (in his 2009 New Yorker feature) calls “the classical world’s most coveted retreat.”

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At the Marlboro School of Music & Festival, Practice Makes Perfect

"Reading about Marlboro, listening to recordings made here and even attending concerts by its musicians elsewhere reveal only so much about how this sylvan retreat actually functions. Visiting the place... is really the only way to appreciate its singular qualities." —David Mermelstein, The Wall Street Journal (2025)

Revered Marlboro tradition begins for another generation

"Sunday’s concert was emblematic of what the festival is all about. Three expert performances showcased the next generation of some of the world’s best chamber music players." —Jim Lowe, Times-Argus (2025)

Musicians from Marlboro – Fall 2024 Review

"One often hears musicians in total coordination, the elements of a piece coming together with satisfaction in a way that highlights the mechanics of the composition. But it is a far greater thing, and much rarer, to hear musicians who have so completely incorporated the music that it sounds like independent voices speaking with each other in total understanding and concert." —NY Classical Review

On Potash Hill, a place for shared musical discovery

"Marlboro Music once again welcomes veteran and emerging artists to teach, to learn, and to rehearse in depth, guided by a central ethos of shared purpose and discovery." —Annie Landenberger, The Commons (2024)

Marlboro delivers excellence in the diverse and the traditional

"Sunday’s performance exuberantly expressed the joy of the players—as well as their audience—to be making music in Vermont’s music mecca." —Jim Lowe, Times-Argus (2024)

A galaxy of rising chamber stars orbits around Uchida at Marlboro

“Like the listeners, the cream of the world’s crop of young musicians flock to Marlboro… Listeners come from great distances, knowing the sort of concert they will hear, but without the details.” —Charles Downey, Classical Review (2024)

Musicians from Marlboro – Winter 2024 Review

"Sunday evening’s selections of Coleridge-Taylor, Dvořák, Webern, and Schoenberg at New England Conservatory’s Williams Hall continued the revered organization’s mission with a vibrancy a loyal enthusiast has come to expect." —David Patterson, Boston Musical Intelligencer

Musicians from Marlboro – Winter 2023 Review

"A phrase from the first Blake song could apply to the entire concert: ‘Sweet joy befall thee’. —Bruce Hodges, The Strad

Musicians from Marlboro – Fall 2023 Review

"The evening began with Haydn’s Quartet in G major, Op. 77, No. 1, and it would be hard to imagine a foursome – Maria Ioudenitch, Claire Bourg, Hayang Park, and Christoph Richter – having more fun," writes Bruce Hodges in his review for The Strad of the fall 2023 Musicians from Marlboro performance in Philadelphia.

Choral Fantasy tradition closes Marlboro’s 72nd season

Pianist and Co-Artistic Director Jonathan Biss led an exciting performance of Beethoven’s “Choral Fantasy,” Op. 80... (It) sounded great and was filled with joy — enthusiastically shared by the audience," writes Jim Lowe in his Times-Argus review (2023)

Musicians from Marlboro – Spring 2023 Review

"Six expert young Marlboro alumni performed music from Beethoven to Paul Wiancko with skill and understanding," writes Jim Lowe in his Rutland Herald review of Musicians from Marlboro's spring 2023 concert at the Brattleboro Music Center (April 10, 2023).

Musicians from Marlboro – Spring 2023 Preview

"The environment of Marlboro, as well as the world-class musicians who are in residence there, has unsurprisingly fostered some of the most memorable music-making of my life," says violinist Alexi Kenney in this engaging pre-tour Q&A with Washington, DC's WETA Classical Score that also features soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon (April 2023).

Spectacular Mozart closes 71st Marlboro festival

"The festival’s final concert of its 71st summer was truly representative of the music making at perhaps the finest chamber music school in the world," writes Jim Lowe for the Times-Argus (2022).

For Marlboro Music, a new era

"The gift of having time to polish and perfect a performance of a piece has been a big reason why a summer at Marlboro Music is a must-do for chamber musicians from all over the world," writes Annie Landenberger in a feature on the festival and Marlboro's acquisition of the Potash Hill campus (The Commons, 2022).

Musicians from Marlboro – 2022 Fall Tour Review

"A handful of accomplished young musicians joined by select (senior artists) presented a satisfying and diverse program at Carnegie Hall as part of the Musicians from Marlboro 2022–23 tour," writes Leah Hollingsworth in The Strad magazine.

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