“Argento Chamber Ensemble...[is] providing a real service to new-music lovers in New York City, by exposing works that might otherwise go unperformed…”

     – Alex Ross, The New Yorker

“An essential source of adventurous new music in New York.”

     – Steve Smith, Night After Night

“Their technical polish lets them move easily through the rhythmic and harmonic thickets of the contemporary styles that are their specialty, but they also bring to their performances the kind of unsettled, restless energy that seems a special province of the young. Michel Galante, the group's conductor, is able to transform these warring qualities into readings that make even relatively static pieces sound dynamic and charged.”

     – Allan Kozinn, The New York Times

“The [Argento Chamber Ensemble's] performance succeeded in every way that really matters. It seized the moment and persuaded one that if Kilkenny Arts Festival wanted to end at the top, it could not get much higher than this.”

     – Martin Adams, The Irish Times

“Argento deserve commendation for delivering a CD that matches fine performance with fine recording and mixing. Murail's works live in the details, and Argento have rendered them richly.”

     – Lanier Sammons, Sequenza 21

“[The Argento Chamber Ensemble's] thrillingly gritty, acid-tinged account of Schoenberg's early Chamber Symphony No. 1 caught Expressionism in full flower.”

     – Allan Kozinn, The New York Times

“It renders [the works] not merely approachable but positively delectable through its mix of technical command and urgent advocacy.…an exceptionally rich, detailed recording.”

     – Steve Smith, The New York Times

Complete Press Clips

The New York Times, October 10, 2010: SONiC Festival/Joyce Theater Collaboration

The New York Times, September 21, 2011: Czechsplorations I at the Moving Sounds Festival: arrangements of Janacek's Prelude to From the House of the Dead, Violin Sonata (for saxophone), and Mahler's Adagio from Symphony No. 10

OutWestArts, January 11, 2011: Ferneyhough's La chute d'Icare, Romitelli's Professor Bad Trip, etc. at the Monday Evening Concerts in Los Angeles

OutWestArts, January 11, 2011: Ferneyhough's La chute d'Icare, Romitelli's Professor Bad Trip, etc. at the Monday Evening Concerts in Los Angeles

The New Yorker, November 29, 2010: Haas's in vain at EMPAC and the Moving Sounds Festival

The New York Times, November 21, 2010: Fred Lerdahl Composer Portrait (PDF)

Joseph Dalton/em>, November 12, 2010: Haas's in vain at EMPAC

The New York Times, June 24, 2010: Schumann at 200

The New York Times, March 8, 2010: Sebestian Currier Composer Portrait

Time Out New York, December 31, 2009: Best of 2009

The New York Times, December 18, 2009: 2009's most memorable performances (Haas's in vain)

The New York Times, November 18, 2009: Miranda Cuckson plays Ralph Shapey

The New York Times, September 13, 2009: Moving Sounds Festival (external link)

The New York Times, May 6, 2009: Olivier Messiaen Centenary

The Washington Post, February 19, 2009: Georg Friedrich Haas's in vain

Los Angeles Times, February 17, 2009: Grisey's Les espaces acoustiques

The New York Times, February 9, 2009: Georg Friedrich Hass's in vain

Time Out New York, February 5, 2009: Georg Friedrich Haas's in vain

The New York Times, April 7, 2009: Fineberg's Lolita (Page 2)

The New York Times, August 1, 2008: Music of Pierre Boulez

Los Angeles Times, April 16, 2008: Helmut Lachenmann's Mouvement (external link)

Los Angeles Times, April 13, 2008: Interview with Helmut Lachenmann (external link)

Night After Night, December 28, 2007: Steve Smith's Best of 2007 (external link)

The Irish Times, December 24, 2007: Argento at the National Gallery, Dublin (external link)

The New York Times, March 25, 2007: Argento's debut CD Winter Fragments on the AEON label (external link)

The New York Times, March 25, 2007: Argento's debut CD Winter Fragments on the AEON label (PDF)

Night After Night, March 25, 2007: Argento's debut CD Winter Fragments on the AEON label (external link)

Sequenza 21, March 24, 2007: Winter Fragment CD (external link)

The New York Times, February 2, 2007: German Expressionism--Schoenberg, Wagner/Szeto, Haas, Stockhausen (external link)

Night After Night: January 31, 2007: German Expressionism--Schoenberg, Wagner/Szeto, Haas, Stockhausen (external link)

The Irish Times, August 21, 2006: Argento at the Kilkenny Festival (external link)

Argento at Kilkenny

Night After Night: May 11, 2006: Stephanie Griffin portrait

Night After Night, May 9, 2006: Grisey, Stephanie Griffin, and Miranda Cuckson (external link)

Night After Night, May 8, 2006: IRCAM at Miller Theatre (external link)