digital press kit
"a keyboard superstar" — the new yorker
"valitutto’s recital amounted to about seven and a half hours of music, concentrated at the soft and slow end of the spectrum....yet it requires formidable artistry to maintain a pristine musical surface at a low volume and an unhurried tempo, as valitutto did."
— the new yorker
“richard valitutto was the vivid soloist in messiaen's short piano concerto, oiseaux exotiques, musically conveying exotic birds in crazy song.” — los angeles times
“valitutto was the soloist [in gubaidulina’s piano concerto introitus], building vast cathedrals of sound from single melodic lines.”
— los angeles times
"valitutto played a william bolcom 'ghost rag' with charming ease....there is nothing like hearing [gloria] cheng and valitutto perform [john adams’s hallelujah junction] close up and with passionate attention to detail.” — los angeles times
"martha graham's last dance, 'maple leaf rag' (1990) featured wild up's pianist richard valitutto playing scott joplin, which might be enough for any audience.” -- los angeles times
“refined touch, admirable control, and solid musicianship....valitutto’s cues to his colleagues from behind a concert grand steinway kept everything together in a program of staggering complexity, and the widely-employed extended techniques inside the piano added an aura of unexpected sounds and colors from the instrument.” — polish music center news
"If anything, valitutto’s zen-like focus justified the event; it is easy to coast through playing [morton feldman’s] music, but he had something to say in every phrase and convinced us to listen." — stage and cinema
“[george antheil’s first sonata for violin and piano] was...a musical precursor to punk rock, a point punctuated by valitutto's ferocious attack on the score that brought out the mechanistic qualities of the music” — out west arts
“an intense performance of this most unassuming of piano parts [in the gubaidulina piano concerto]” — out west arts
"valitutto’s recital amounted to about seven and a half hours of music, concentrated at the soft and slow end of the spectrum....yet it requires formidable artistry to maintain a pristine musical surface at a low volume and an unhurried tempo, as valitutto did."
— the new yorker
“richard valitutto was the vivid soloist in messiaen's short piano concerto, oiseaux exotiques, musically conveying exotic birds in crazy song.” — los angeles times
“valitutto was the soloist [in gubaidulina’s piano concerto introitus], building vast cathedrals of sound from single melodic lines.”
— los angeles times
"valitutto played a william bolcom 'ghost rag' with charming ease....there is nothing like hearing [gloria] cheng and valitutto perform [john adams’s hallelujah junction] close up and with passionate attention to detail.” — los angeles times
"martha graham's last dance, 'maple leaf rag' (1990) featured wild up's pianist richard valitutto playing scott joplin, which might be enough for any audience.” -- los angeles times
“refined touch, admirable control, and solid musicianship....valitutto’s cues to his colleagues from behind a concert grand steinway kept everything together in a program of staggering complexity, and the widely-employed extended techniques inside the piano added an aura of unexpected sounds and colors from the instrument.” — polish music center news
"If anything, valitutto’s zen-like focus justified the event; it is easy to coast through playing [morton feldman’s] music, but he had something to say in every phrase and convinced us to listen." — stage and cinema
“[george antheil’s first sonata for violin and piano] was...a musical precursor to punk rock, a point punctuated by valitutto's ferocious attack on the score that brought out the mechanistic qualities of the music” — out west arts
“an intense performance of this most unassuming of piano parts [in the gubaidulina piano concerto]” — out west arts