"The group of soloists all played admirably......But pianist and composer
Aaron L. Berkowitz, a second year graduate student at the Graduate School
of Arts and Sciences, was the clear standout. His performance of the
Adagio movement from "Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23" was novel in all
the best ways. Foregoing the sumptuous melodic slush favored by many
pianists who look for any available opportunity to jerk Romantic tears from a
sympathetic audience, Berkowitz crafted lines that were detached, but
wrenchingly so. Playing like a person who learns of the death of a loved
one and does not know how to tell the rest of his family, his
performance was intensely moving."