performance
"...
and the bright , brassy sounds of the piccolo trumpet, expertly played by Brian Neal were exhilarating.
-
Santa Cruz Sentinel (California)

"...wow, delightful, fun, creative, inspirational and just plain great music"
- The Item (South Carolina)


"...played the sonata with beautiful tone, rhythmic precision and a wonderful sense of the Baroque style.
-
Coral Gables Gazette (Florida)

"...
The venue echoed with the resonant sound of trumpeter Brian Neal"

-Monterey Weekly (California)

composition
"...heralding horns and tremulous strings, breaks out in pleasant lyricism and builds steam in the trombones, winds and percussion. Stylistically, it echoes 1940's neo-Romanticism, it's an accomplished throwback.
-Miami Herald (Florida)