LUMINESCENCE   Kate Steinbeck flute • Amy Brucksch guitar

It's quite beautiful. I'm sure I'll be using it on the show from time to time.--Van Williamson, Director, Morning Edition NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO

I absolutely love Luminescence. Bravo! What a brilliant combination of music. I love your playing--there is so much nuance.--Anna Thibeault, Wildacres Flute Retreat

Kate and Amy play beautifully together. Their music spans a wide range of expressive sounds from refined, gentle and sweet, or melancholic, to full, rich, robust and dramatic...very high quality, and rewards an attentive listener with its many delights. Finnish Suite by Paul Svoboda is a surprising and welcome shift into contemporary virtuoso playing, and a joyful highlight of the collection. Bach's Sonata BWV 1033 comes alive in this recording. All four movements demonstrate fine technique and skilled musicianship, and hearing this should encourage and inspire students in their playing of this standard flute repertoire sonata.--J. Langabeer, FLUTE FOCUS, New Zealand

Light in the Corner Kate Steinbeck flutes • Byron Hedgepeth percussion

I have to tell you how much I liked your CD...Gareth Farr's Kembang Suling is really good...especially the last movement trip to india. The Hansen piece is just lovely and beautifully played. Your playing through-out the album is truly touching...I can say honestly that this is a CD that would appeal to all flute players and inspire them to look into a repertoire not often explored. Well done, Kate! I look forward to your next CD with pleasure. Best wishes! Jimmy Sir James Galway

Kate Steinbeck's style is robust and confident, at times calling to mind the native North American flute, at other times a little reminiscent of Peter Lukas Graf. The music she has chosen to play is a refreshing mixture of styles – Oriental pastiche, jazz, Negro spirituals, tender waltzes and exploratory original compositions - all well prepared and enjoyable to listen to. This disc has earned a place in my drawing-room cabinet, thus saving it from languishing with many others in the loft or garage. What more can I say? I keenly look forward to further chances of hearing Kate Steinbeck’s playing.- R. Stagg

PAN, The Journal of the British Flute Society

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