REVIEWS

"The audience....was surprised by the marvellous performance which the pianist offered, both technically perfect and musically mature.....the young artist was brilliant, with his high technical capacity and his feeling for the musical imagination of the work....."

Die Rheinische Post, November,1995

"...Collins brought plenty of muscle and colour to his part and, in the first movement's cadenza, gave a scintillating display of pianistic bravura......."

Martin Adams, The Irish Times, January 1995

Past Reviews

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Current Reviews

"Collins plays Schumann in a refreshingly direct, unfussy manner, with a warm-hearted tone full of telling touches and refined rubato. Listen, for instance, to the way he subtly shapes the melody of the first of the "Three Little Pieces" of Bunte Blätter (the whole set is a joy, not least the concluding "Quick March") and sings his way over the energetic semiquaver accompaniment in the Intermezzo from Faschingsschwank aus Wien, a preferable performance to the hard-driven and flinty Piotr Anderszewski in his recent Carnegie Hall recital (8/09)."

Jeremy Nicholas, Gramophone Magazine, September 2009