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"Spartanburg Philharmonic closes season with the classics..."
- GoUpstate.com, April 8, 2010
Read more“The performance was smashing thanks in no small part to the exceptionally well-practiced pre-professionals, who brought a sparkle to the Salzburgers’ sound that wasn’t there before. Thus a few notes about OCYSO, which is led by Daniel Alfred Wachs, are in order…”
- Mark Swed, LA Times, October 25, 2009
"O.C. Youth Orchestra to join Mozarteum Orchestra for U.S. premiere"
- OC Register, September 3, 2009
"Wachs has brought elegance, passion and a golden tone to the Chapman orchestra, and has infused the OC Youth Symphony with precision and grace. Think of him as Orange County's Dudamel. "
- OC Register, March 9, 2009
"During the presentation portion of the program, Koshak was named music director emeritus of the ensemble and Daniel Alfred Wachs... his heir"
- OC Register, May 5, 2008
"The concert ended with a screening of the 1936 New Deal documentary The Plow that Broke the Plains, supported by a performance of Thomson’s enduring score by members of the Pacific Symphony and the Chapman Chamber Orchestra, expertly synchronised by the conductor Daniel Alfred Wachs..."
- Financial Times, February 14, 2008
"Wachs' light, smartly assayed passagework eschewed flourish, hewing to the concerto's classic sensibility"
- Sun-Sentinel, January 15, 2008
"Chapman's Music Conductor Moonlights a World Away"
- Chapman University's PROWL, Spring 2007
"Guest artist Daniel Alfred Wachs was like icing on the torte. A conductor as well as a pianist, Wachs proved himself a formidable Mozartian in not one, but two of his piano concertos...Concerto No. 11 in F Major, K.413, and No. 9 in E-flat Major, K.271 ("Jeunehomme")”
- Cincinnati Post, Mon, June 26, 2006
“Wachs proved a revelation, delivering a technically impeccable, emotionally powerful performance of two Mozart piano concertos and a pair of solo works…”
- St. Paul Pioneer Press, Sat, March 5, 2005
"One Brahms Symphony, Hold the Vibrato"
By DANIEL ALFRED WACHS
- The Juilliard Journal, December, 2002
“Conductor Daniel Alfred Wachs led the nimble-fingered forces with accomplishment…”
- Classics Today.com, July 21, 2002