UPCOMING PERFORMANCES AND BROADCASTS

January 31, 2022 WETA Classical radio in Washington, DC The 21st Century Consort performs Dangerous Curves on Front Row Washington at 9pm.

Spring 2022 – premiere of Seven Kinds of Happiness for orchestra in Oakland, CA by the Community Women’s Orchestra, with guest director Martha Stoddard

MEDIA

RADIO INTERVIEW: Jessica Krash’s cello concerto on WETA radio in Washington, DC

PODCAST: “Dangerous Music: Music and the Brain” from the Library of Congress

PUBLICATION: “Reminiscence on Studying with Jeanne Bamberger” from Visions of Research in Music Education, vol. 20

REVIEW: premiere of cello concerto reviewed in The Washington Post

REVIEW: Past Made Present reviewed in the Wall Street Journal View PDF

REVIEW: What I Wanted to Tell You reviewed on NewMusicBox.org.

REVIEW: Past Made Present reviewed in Gramophone 

REVIEW: Past Made Present – Recording of the Month – reviewed in Voix des Arts, View PDF

REVIEW:  Past Made Present reviewed twice in Fanfare Magazine, View PDF 1, View PDF 2

INTERVIEW: Jessica Krash profiled in GW Today.

RADIO INTERVIEW:  on Lithuanian Radio with journalist Audra Čepkauskaitė about music,

Lithuanian-Jewish history and Yiddish classes

PRESS

“The piece is a vivid series of fantasy landscapes limned with canny economy. Bluesy turns and hints of Latin rhythms dot the texture, with especially wistful melodic writing in the slow movement…. the piece seemed poised to ramp up to a boisterous finale, only to dissolve into airy silence again.” — Charles T. Downey, The Washington Post

“The notes talk to each other, ruminate and wonder about themselves.” – James Ross, conductor of the premiere

Listed in “10 of the Best New Releases in 2018 of Women Composers” – Daffodil Perspective: “Fantastic collection of chamber music… strangely haunting music exploring the emotional connections between old and new.”

April 2018 Recording of the Month — Voix des Arts: “compassionate awareness permeates the music” — “an abiding aura of disquiet with haunting purity of vision”

Young Vilna is “an extraordinary new composition”  — Norman Lebrecht, Slipped Disc

Delphi — What the Oracle Said is “absolutely gripping” — Colin Clarke, Fanfare Magazine

Young Vilna is “alternately tense and hauntingly beautiful.” Allan Kozinn, The Wall Street Journal

“tantalizing… engaging with a touch of the provocative” — Cecelia H. Porter, The Washington Post

“deft, challenging and eclectic … manages to combine politics and music in a manner that does justice to both.  Krash has a playful sense of humor…” — Tim Page, The Washington Post

“sly, crackling wit” — Andrew Lindemann Malone, The Washington Post

“a pianist of delicacy and warmth” — D Moore, American Record Guide

“arresting and original…finely crafted work, full of interesting and unexpected twists and turns…life-affirming energy, vigor, and optimism” — David DeBoor Canfield, Fanfare Magazine

“beguiling…enticing…compelling” — L. Peat O’Neil, The Washington Post

“Krash’s performance of the demanding score is brilliant… Fog [is] an example of music so original it is not yet trendy.” — Helen Brown in the Journal of the International Alliance for Women in Music

“Composer and pianist Jessica Krash pushes the envelope of musical forms, creating and performing music that is always fresh and compelling.” — Strathmore