C O M P O S E R

“The demanding Violin Concerto, by Todd Mason, becomes a 24-minute exciting fever dream with spiky rhythms, passionate dialogues between violin and orchestra, and a cinematic character.” - Maartje Stokkers, de Volkskrant, Amsterdam

“Todd Mason's ambition is nothing more and nothing less than to offer a concerto for our times, resolutely contemporary, but so solid that it will face the new world without stopping. This astonishing Violin Concerto will be remembered.” - Bruno Chiron, for Bla-Bla-Blog. French fine arts and culture”

“From the get-go, the expressivity of the music of American composer Todd Mason possesses an undeniable charm that takes hold of the listener. In a single movement, the narrative force of the score is immediate.” - Jean-Jacques Millo, Opus Haute Définition, France

“A virtuosic work that advances our idea of the concerto into the 21st Century.” - Interlude

“With Mason's Chamber Suite for Strings, everything is in motion and we get caught up in the musical conversation. But it's not just an American conversation, it's salted with the middle European rhythms and melodies we discovered in the first movement remnding us of Kodaly and Bartok. A superb new work.” - Interlude HK

“The Chamber Suite is an immensely satisfying work for string orchestra, on a number of counts.” - Textura, Canada

Hearing Mason's new String Quartet No. 3 at Mount Wilson's Concerts in the Dome, the aufience swayed as the Zelter Quartet played, often with their eyes closed and heads back, overcome with emotion and soaking in the echoing sounds." - Los Angeles Times

“Todd Mason's Where Our Innocence Once Stood added an awestruck reaching-out to the illimitable substance and processes of the universe itself, taking in not only its grandeur but also violence in music less anchored to tonality than its predecessors in the recital. This is a work that I would be particularly glad to hear again.” - LA Opus