“…delicate, haunting, introspective…”

- Diana Burgwyn, Symphony Magazine, on Eliza’s music

 

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“Eliza Brown’s Ich ben der welt abhanden gekommen – a work for cello, soprano, and electronics inspired by Gustav Mahler’s setting of the same Rückert text – was, for this listener, the most fascinating and revelatory on the disc…. This is art song that alternates between feeling like Mahler and feeling like Mahler played through a radio on the moon.”

- Ellen McSweeney, New Music Box

 

 

“...textural variety is ably engaged with a richness of sound often lacking in similar music of such apparent and beguiling plain-spokenness.”

- Dan Visconti, New Music Box, on String Quartet No. 1

 

 

“[Eliza's] music radiated flexibility in its harmony and quickly shifting levels of intensity. It was a showcase for its performers..."

- Aaron Holloway-Nahum, Tempo, on A Soundwalk with Resi

 

 

“Between Clouds by Chicago composer Eliza Brown is another gem, its meditative sparseness evoking the negative space in a not-quite-sunny sky.”

- Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader

 

 

“…chortling echoes of folk songs, Semitic-flavored grace notes, and the mournful chorale that concluded the piece, appropriately, with little sense of repose. Good stuff.”

- David Patrick Stearns, Philadelphia Inquirer, on The Ghosts of Praha

 

 

“[Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble] then performed Cassandra, IL, (2018) by Eliza Brown. The voices stretched, yawned and howled, as Brown’s lyrics of rivers running dry and dust on the rise echoed with poignant beauty.”

- Sheila Regan, Pioneer Press

 

 

The most compelling work was composed by Eliza Brown…Figure to Ground (2016) reveled in understatement, its hushed dynamics, transparent textures and hauntingly simple melodic fragments inducing the listener to lean in, the better to savor its whisperings.

- Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune  

 

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“…a very talented emerging composer.”

- Daniel Coombs, Audiophile Audition

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