“Performed with determined zest and energy”
“Leading pianist in Malta in the contemporary and avant garde genres”
“Her dedication to her art is there for all to see and feel, combining a strong personality and sensitivity”
The Sunday Times
September 10, 2017
Albert Storace
FULL REVIEWWith Dawn’s performances I never know what to expect, except that they will be exhilarating, innovative and one-of-a-kind, and she never ever fails to deliver! With the show she proposed to Evenings on Campus, she gave us a wonderful mix of brilliant music and theatrical performance (where does she get all that energy from???) coupled with the videos accompanying. I was glued to my seat, wide eyed and wide eared! At the end of the performance I was thinking “I didn’t want that to finish!”
Daphne Pia - Evenings on Campus Festival
August 31, 2017
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FULL REVIEWDawn’s performances are exciting, surprising and beautifully crafted. Grounded in mastery there is always an edge of fun and mischief. It has been worth following her live performances across the globe.
Dane Ropa - NSW Department of Education & Training University of Sydney
August 11, 2017
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FULL REVIEWLast Sunday’s concert, TRANSIT[ion], was superb! … my favorite from all your concerts I’ve been to so far… I couldn’t single out a single piece and say “this was my favorite piece!” They were all so beautiful and innovative and cutting-edge. Even the “older” pieces, Cowell and Crumb, were so engaging and unsettling. At the same time the concert was extremely accessible. At no point did I feel lost or unable to relate. Well done Dawn! Excellent!
Marco Montalto - ZfinMalta
July 25, 2017
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FULL REVIEW“Her performances attract a loyal core of aficionados and others who, by their own admission, want to expand and enrich their musical experiences”
“Here, yet again, this enterprising pianist proved how well-prepared and resourceful she is and how her boundless energy seems to carry all before her”
The Sunday Times
January 31, 2016
Albert Storace
FULL REVIEW“Playing of film music reveals a different side to pianist and shows off her versatility”
The Sunday Times
August 20, 2014
Albert Storace
FULL REVIEW“Williams’ recitals are always exciting events and her latest, at Sala Isouard, was no less”
“It is a powerful, obsessive and ostinato-riddled sequence of clustered scales which build up in power and forcefulness that require great reserves of energy and stamina, something the pianist showed she had in abundance”
The Sunday Times
May 18, 2014
Albert Storace
FULL REVIEW“Williams offered a haunting interpretation, conveying the impression of other worldliness through the renditions of the contrasting tempos aimed at conjuring up pictures of ‘dancing’ asteroids”
“The diversity across the works and within the works themselves required considerable concentration and vigour. The pianist demonstrated that she could easily swing from one mood to the other”
The Sunday Times
April 6, 2014
Silvio John Camilleri
FULL REVIEW“Williams has now established herself as a leading pianist when it comes to contemporary repertoire. She has a natural affinity with the repertoire that goes beyond mere technical competence”
“Williams performed this (Steve Antosca, Traces of Spirit Whispers) brilliantly, moving seamlessly from one technical demand to the next”
“The programme is demanding enough when played once through.
To repeat it three times in an evening is nothing short of heroic. But then again, this is a pianist who believes in her cause”
Times of Malta
November 3, 2013
Alex Vella Gregory
FULL REVIEW“…. These compositions, played with considerable verve and delicacy by pianist Tricia Dawn Williams, function to support the reading in the way that the piano was used in the silent film era …”
Rootsworld Magazine
August 30, 2013
Erik Keilholtz
FULL REVIEW“Williams’ meticulous approach when switching between different levels of intensity greatly contributed towards a colourful interpretation of this work”
“Williams brought out the melodious qualities and relative simplicity reminiscent of folk music (Bela Bartok, Hungarian folk songs)”
The Sunday Times
August 4, 2013
Silvio John Camilleri
FULL REVIEW“Williams sounded particularly assertive in the more abstract sections of the work where some passages are fairly demanding.”
“The suite (Pierre Adrien Charpy, Suite Cafeinee) is a tour de force of dance-like passages with ostinato and staccato rhythms, even if the melodic qualities are consistently at the fore. Williams rose to the occasion and rendered a convincing execution which was also lauded by the composer.”
“Devoting the entire recital to new compositions proved an ambitious effort which paid off handsomely.”
The Sunday Times
April 14, 2013
Silvio John Camilleri
FULL REVIEW“This highly charged music, so frequently and disturbingly tense and very complex rhythmically, is not surprisingly called Crisis. It found a worthy interpreter in the pianist, who tempered great concentration and strength with articulation”
“It was another challenging task to the pianist who revelled in the performance of these pieces as a form of research into sound as the basis of musical composition”
The Sunday Times
October 7, 2012
Albert Storace
FULL REVIEW“The three musicians brought out all the poetry in Sculthorpe’s earthy music, working very well together while playing music that is rarely heard or recorded”
“The excellent musicians faced technical difficulties in the music with aplomb, such as the piano’s constant shift in registers and tempos, the clarinet’s timbre and pitch, especially the chalemeau or lowest register and the violinist’s exceedingly fast runs, myriad multiple stops and difficult phrasing”
The Sunday Times
May 13, 2012
Joyce Guillaumier
FULL REVIEW“This was extremely powerful and well-projected music in which the pianist not only played with her fingers but in the first legend also produced crashing chords using her left forearm, the right one in the second legend and both of them in the last legend”
The Sunday Times
April 22, 2012
Albert Storace
FULL REVIEW“Crossbreed Ensemble reflects today’s multi-lingual ‘soundtrack’ … clashing the music of Ligeti, Xenakis and Cowell with heavy metal classics by Iron Maiden, film scores and cartoon music from Looney Tunes”
The Sunday Times
November 6, 2011
FULL REVIEW
“The pianist, Williams, was her usual assertive self and gave her full contribution to the work which ended beautifully on a very soft note”
“The piano had some heavy note-clusters to perform while the whole work instilled a lovely atmosphere created by luscious folk melodies”
The Sunday Times
August 7, 2011
Joyce Guillaumier
FULL REVIEW“This (Ruben Zahra, Pan the Goat-God) is a lovely showpiece in which the brilliance of Tricia Dawn Williams’ pianistic technique shines through in no uncertain terms”
The Sunday Times
June 26, 2011
Kenneth Zammit Tabona
FULL REVIEW“The pianist looked beautifully calm and composed as she and her fellow musicians plunged into a world of controlled cacophony”
The Sunday Times
May 8, 2011
Peter Farrugia
FULL REVIEW“Williams did full justice to this delicate (John Cage, In a Landscape) but intense tone-poem as it rose in swathes of deft Chinese brushstrokes dissolving into nothingness like a helium balloon disappearing into the atmosphere”
“The Three Irish Legends by Henry Cowell showed up Williams’ pianistic mastery to the full with its extraordinary effects of elbows and fists crashing down on the piano. The colours of these three pieces were nothing short of amazing”
The Sunday Times
December 12, 2010
Kenneth Zammit Tabona
FULL REVIEW“…. and the dramatic pianistic punctuation splendidly declaimed by Williams”
“…. and those brilliant chordal piano passages made the evening one I will remember with pleasure for a long time”
The Sunday Times
June 6, 2010
Kenneth Zammit Tabona
FULL REVIEW“Williams brought out the contrasting character of the various pieces that she played with affection and understanding. Clear articulation marked the faster pieces while the slower numbers had a relaxed meditative mood.”
