“Moussa is a dazzling colorist, and his A Globe Itself Infolding glowingly immerses the organ in an ocean of orchestral sonorities.”
Mark Swed / Los Angeles Times / March 23, 201
“Samy Moussa’s strikingly original “Crimson” revealed a young composer and conductor from Montreal with a gleeful sense for metallic orchestral color and shocking harmony.”
Mark Swed / Los Angeles Times / September 4, 2015
“Samy Moussa, whose Crimson was a purple patch of intoxicated harmonies and noisy energy”
Tom Service / The Guardian / August 26, 2015
“La maîtrise de l’orchestre dont fait preuve le jeune compositeur impressionne et séduit, dans les textures plus transparentes qu’il fait naître progressivement, avant d’investir les registres graves, dans un cheminement narratif qui maintient continuellement la tension de l’écoute.”
Michèle Tosi / ResMusica / September 2, 2015
“The opener was an OSM commission, Samy Moussa’s Nocturne, the most recent of five commissions Moussa has received from Kent Nagano. The tonal piece is moody with an underlying sense of threat that rises to the surface in a sort of strangled outburst. The 10-minute piece avoids the pitfall of over-busyness that so many short works succumb to. It turned out to be a good choice for an evening in which the final work also expresses a dark moodiness. Samy Moussa turns 31 this year. Aside from being one of the most interesting Canadian composers active today he has a vital, focused conducting style.”
Michael Johnson / ConcertoNet.com / May 13, 2015
“Peter Ruzickas „Aulodie“ für Oboe und Kammerorchester, bereits 2011 entstanden und nun bei IMPULS zu erleben in einer großartigen Aufführung mit Albrecht Mayer (Berliner Philharmoniker) und der Staatskapelle Halle unter Samy Moussa.”
Michael Jenne / neue musikzeitung / December 10, 2013