Newspaper Reviews & Audience Comments
“With your performance Maureen, you created an unforgettable moment that took our residents' breath away”
Barchester Care Home, October 2012
“There are pianists who play the piano by hitting the right notes. There are others who transport you through their music, making you forget the fact that you’re actually sitting in a theatre, allowing you to wander off mentally far into the thrills only music can reward. Maureen Galea is one such pianist”
“Delightful piano playing ... her performance was pure poetry, showing superb control”
“Maureen Galea’s accompanying was as fine as her solo performance”
Albert Storace, The Times of Malta, October 2006
“An excellent performance ... Aurally and visually delightful”
“Pianistic genius! ... strong streak of spiritual fire in her playing … a tour-de-force of pianistic wizardry ... exceptionally true talent”
“Her performances were totally faithful to the musical matter, and her sheer dedication is unimpeachable in every department”
“Galea played Beethoven’s magnificent Appassionata Sonata, an extremely demanding piece. However, this young pianist left us all spellbound with her fiendish technique, not sacrificed for poetic prowess. This was indeed a performance to cherish!”
“The talented duo played to an appreciative audience … the last piece, Ganz’s Grand Galop de Concert, was performed with such joy that it brought spontaneous laughter to the delighted listeners”
Henry Friend, Surrey Advertiser, July 2009
“High technical accomplishment, musical ability and promise as a performing musician ... a talented pianist”
“There are many talented pianists. However, Maureen is in the strata of the selected few”
“Her musical and technical authority was consistently commanding, her nimble finger-work proving to be a successful match for the challenges of this composer’s [Voříšek] busy textures”
Sebastian Forbes, Surrey Advertiser, March 2010
“Galea … provided a finely-wrought, mature reading of Beethoven’s Pathétique Sonata”
Sebastian Forbes, Surrey Advertiser, March 2010
“There was more to admire in Maureen Galea’s last choice: a selection from Dvořák’s Humouresques … full of warmth … the pianist played with an easily discernible zest, but in a well-controlled way”
Albert Storace, The Times of Malta, October 2006
“Distinguished Maltese pianist Maureen Galea [has] a wide repertoire of studies and prizes under her fingertips … her love of music is evident in every fibre of her being, and seeing her perform was truly inspirational! Bravo!”
“Maureen Galea’s advocacy of Voříšek’s music was most persuasive”
Sebastian Forbes, Surrey Advertiser, March 2010
“ Yesterday’s concert was worthy of particular mention … because of the remarkable Voříšek Fantasie … marvellous and most entertaining!”
“The star of my week is without doubt the brilliant pianist Maureen Galea … I will just say that after hearing her play … I am forever her fan, and hope that she will return regularly to entertain and move us”
“She shows herself adaptable to changes of style and idiom, something she can do with apparent aplomb”
“Maureen Galea, whether as soloist or in purposeful collaboration … delighted us equally for stylistic insight and technical command”
Sebastian Forbes, Surrey Advertiser, October 2006
“Sensitive accompanying … wistful, brooding and dramatic, always poised and elegant … Galea reflected Mozart’s wide range of moods effectively throughout”
“She performed [Schubert’s] Impromptus Op. 142 … the piano sounded like a lovely song without words, disarmingly charming. In the third [of the set], the variations grew more and more elaborate and as the work reached a climax in a self-assertive almost wilful vein, it seemed like a precocious child were loose, showing off true talent which one could not help but admire”
Albert Storace, The Times of Malta, October 2006
“Grieg’s Lyric Pieces were performed with great sensitivity and calm, and left the audience wishing for much more”
“Ades’s Darknesse Visible - an effective piece, thrillingly performed”
“Galea played with an unerring sense of timing and dynamics revealing once again a remarkable evenness of tone and balance”
“The performance [of Schumann’s Kreisleriana] was remarkable for its richness of colouring and intensity of feeling framed by a severity alike in its beauty and its passion”
“We felt that we were in the presence of greatness”