“…a superb pianist [and] also an eloquent and insightful music writer.” — Boston Globe
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“…thoughtful and probing … one of today's foremost Beethoven exponents.” — Chicago Tribune
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“…a young American pianist who always displays impeccable taste and a formidable technique…” — New Yorker
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“For Biss, … Schumann provokes a singular, protective love, as if for a troubled child possessed of rare, awkward genius. His humanity and fragility course through every note and each unsettled rhythm that he wrote. Biss captures those fleeting shifts without any gothic horror or excess, only clear-eyed, generous insight.” — The Guardian
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“The playing was passionately committed and amazing in technical command, with eloquent touches from Biss…” — Dallas Morning News
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“No one could have asked for more from Biss [in Caroline Shaw's Watermark with The Cleveland Orchestra] ... As he would have been in pure Beethoven, the pianist Saturday was a model of articulation and nuanced, meaningful expression. He also shared the foreground, communicating readily with an orchestra on its toes and lending Watermark the intimacy of a chamber score, albeit a large and rather wild one. Indeed, part of the point of Watermark was to showcase Biss and the nature of his artistry. On that front, and on many others, one can only admit it succeeded.” — Plain Dealer
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“...it’s hard to think of another pianist who communicates such a sense of sheer delight.” — BBC Music Magazine
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“…the combination of detailed specificity and expressive freedom that marked his finest playing was particularly evident in the final offering, [Beethoven’s] “Appassionata,” Op. 57. There was an intoxicating sense of sweep and urgency in the opening movement, and a bravura fearlessness in the finale that left a listener eager for the next installments [of this complete Beethoven piano sonata performance cycle]…” — San Francisco Chronicle
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“For sheer energy, engaging idiosyncrasy and probing intelligence, no other recent survey of Beethoven’s wide-ranging piano sonatas compares with the nine-year-long, nine-volume odyssey newly completed by Jonathan Biss.” — Limelight
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“…a pianist whose probing, incisive, and deeply considered performances are consistently challenging and rewarding.” — San Francisco Classical Voice
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