Mikhail Hallak / Press-and-reviews
What reviewers say about Mikhail Hallak:…an exceptionally fine pianist.
(Recital – Sheri Greenawald: Boston Globe)
Hallak was right there with each singer, turning the piano into a partner in dialogue or a multicolored orchestral commentator on the emotions being sung.
(Washington Post, 02/05/05)
One could only bask in infinitely tapered pianissimos and impassioned resonance, along with Hallak's sophisticated piano partnership, and in the intense beauty they conveyed.
(Washington Post, 10/03/04)
It was also his performance—not a fault on Mr. Hallak's part—that had the latter's sensitive and warm accompaniment disappear without trace into the music. Perhaps it is the mark of true success of a pianist in a song recital that he shall simply merge unnoticeably. Together with the supple Bösendorfer Mikhail Hallak did just that.
(Ionarts, 10/03/04)
Petrova and gifted Belgian pianist Mikhail Hallak presented a dazzling program of Russian and German songs... Petrova’s accompanist Hallak produced for her the perfect colorful palette she needed.
(The Post and Courier, Charleston)
He was as sensitive and successful an accompanist as the performers could ever have hoped for.
(Ionarts, 02/05/05)
Soprano Luybov Petrova’s very able accompanist was Mikhail Hallak, whose beautifully balanced and warm tone combined with tight ensemble with Petrova were models to be emulated.
(Classical Voice, North Carolina)
The program included a Brahms Cello Sonata and Schubert's Adagio and Rondo D. 487 for piano and strings, both with the brilliant young pianist Mikhail Hallak.
(Festival Chamber Music: E-pulse journal)
The program presented by Le Roux and his vigorously supportive pianist, Mikhail Hallak amounted to a Cook’s tour of 19th and 20th Century Gallic Melodies, including every major song composer from Gounod, Saint-Saens, Faure and Duparc to Debussy, Ravel and Poulenc... illuminated with enormous insight, complete with ravishing half-tints from both artists.
(Chicago Tribune)
Hallak is a rare pianist with an incomparable gift.
(Classical Voice, North Carolina)
Along with the singing of François Le Roux, there was the expert accompanying of Mikhail Hallak, who has established himself as an important collaborator, not merely an accompanist. Note especially the long coda for piano in Duparc’s setting of Baudelaire’s “A previous life” (“La vie antérieure”), as well as the wonderful conclusion of Dutilleux’s “Fantasio,” which ended the first half.
(The Delaware Gazette, November 5th 2007)
It is important to mention the exceptional fashion in which Hallak accompanied François Le Roux.
(Canto Lirico, International Opera Magazine)
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