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"Miss Altamura is a charismatic artist who holds an audience till the last bow... an orchestra's pianist and delight.""
Joseph Kalichstein, Pianist, Juilliard Faculty
"It gives me great pleasure to recommend Cristina Altamura. She is a thoughtful, sensitive and accomplished pianist."
Robert Sherman, WQXR, Presenter of the McGraw Hill Young Artists Showcase
"I have admired her work for several years now, invited to be a soloist in the 2001 Beethoven Festival at Oyster Bay, and presented her often on the WQXR McGraw Hill Young Artists Showcase."
Teatro Comunale, Imola Italy, 1999
Amici della Musica wrote
"The young pianist treated Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 with a light and transparent touch usually reserved for this work; Mozartian in style and kissed with felicitous enlightenment... Miss Altamura put in evidence an innate musicianship, an appropriate sense of instrumental color and a natural predisposition for elegant phrasing; varied, not scholastic and rich in abandon and emotional surprises."
Palatului Cultural, Arad, Romania, 1999
the critics of the Observator wrote
"Cristina Altamura displayed great honesty in her playing without unnecessary effects of bravura and exaggerated fortissimi in Beethoven's Piano Concerto n.1" and " she perfumed the music with an air of refinement ...Bringing the fresh air of a new generation of pianism to the Arad Concert Hall...limpid, clean sounds as the result of total control of the pedal in playing of great, smooth transparency."
Licia Albanese, Legendary Metropolitan Opera star
"She's a prodigious talent who, as a child, already played like a pro. She plays like singers sing. Her hands sing at the keyboard."
John Paul Keeler
New York Times Union
"The first Piano Concerto, the most Mozartian of the Beethoven Five, was performed with exquisite brio. Poetry as well as playful humor informed the artistic collaboration of maestro Chichon and pianista Cristina Altamura. Altamura applied her firm piano technique to produce a singing beauty in the service of Beethoven."
John Paul Keeler
New York Times Union
"Saturday night Pianist Cristina Altamura in collaboration with Maestro Chichon and the Philarmonic gave a performance of Robert Shumann's Concerto in A Minor which was a revelation. The Schumann War Horse was fresh, indeed new in this recreation. Brillance, poetry and power in its proper place undergirded with a singing quality brouth Altamura's performance to the level of the late Lili Kraus."
Martha Marchena
Chair of Piano Department, Kean University
"...A performance of great intelligence and passion... the audience was captivated."
Kathryn Caggianelli
Hudson Valley Newspaper
"Schumann's "Piano Concerto in A minor, Opus 54, played by the orchestra's principal pianist, Cristina Altamura, was flawlessy delivered. Altamura was poised and fluid at the keyboard and the orchestra's artful interpretation brought the audience to its feet"
Steinway Hall, New York, NY, USA, 1994
America Oggi wrote
" ...Besides Scarlatti, she played Beethoven and Chopin with confidence, ease and stylistic accuracy."
Bedford, UK, 1998
Anglo/Italian Music Society wrote
"The young artist moved and expressed with secure virtuosity...drawing forth a piano voice rich in colors which served works of Mozart, Scarlatti, Chopin, Ravel, and Gershwin...Listening was a joy of the heart and spirit."
Mannes College of Music
Stephanie Brown, Professor of Piano, Mannes College of Music
"Altamura has a natural affinity for the music of Chopin...unique freedom and lyricism. She plays such composers as Prokofiev and Rachmaninov with excellent style and taste. . .
Regarding Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert, she plays this repertoire with authority and understanding of the musical idiom, long phrase and thought structure."
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