"Garlands for Steven Stucky," was unusual in so many ways. It was an exquisitely executed recital conceived, edited, and performed by pianist Gloria Cheng...a pianist who consistently fuses deep emotionality with exacting precision..."
— Jim Farber, San Francisco Classical Voice

"...Cheng turned in a performance that can only be described as breathtaking."
— Stephen Brookes, The Washington Post

"...an invaluable new-music advocate and a preferred collaborator of composers like Pierre Boulez and Esa-Pekka Salonen. ...Ms. Cheng's program [was] characteristically adventurous and filled with meaningful interrelations..."
-- Steve Smith, The New York Times

"Cheng's sense of poetry is infallible…"
— William Dart, The New Zealand Herald

"Gloria Cheng's new release of works by Esa-Pekka Salonen, Steven Stucky and Witold Lutoslawski is consistently exhilarating. It's not just that Ms. Cheng plays these daunting pieces with such commanding technique, color and imagination. She has brought together works that fascinatingly complement one another."
— Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times

"Gloria Cheng's performance [of Elliott Carter's Night Fantasies] at her recent Piano Spheres concert at Zipper hall reminded me of the music's wonders. ...Time has not reduced the terrors in the work, and the Cheng performance - broadly expressive, splendidly responsive to the work's title - was a matter of bravery beyond the call."
— Alan Rich, Los Angeles Weekly

"Gloria Cheng's Piano Dance (Telarc) might easily have been just another glib concept album - 23 pieces explicitly based on dances - had she not gone to the effort of assembling a compelling recital of twentieth-century pieces and then playing them as if her life depended on it."
— James M. Keller, The New Yorker