Reviews
"I want to thank you most warmly for your splendid performance with the New Queen's Hall Orchestra...the orchestra played really beautifully..."
HRH Prince Charles after a concert for Music in English Country Churches, Bampton, Oxfordshire
- 21/5/11
- 21/5/11
"Ferris made the slow movement the real heart of the work, showing the warm, almost loving, side of the music and the climax was warm and very satisfying. Perhaps the finale isn't quite up to the standard of the rest of the work but here Ferris played it for all it was worth and showed the playful side of Walton's character. The coda, where Walton adds cymbals, gong, side drum and a second set of timpani, was glorious in its exultation."
Review of concert with Salomon Orchestra
- Music Web International, 29/6/10
- Music Web International, 29/6/10
"Congratulations to the choir for their splendid efforts. I was impressed with the meticulous preparation, and was thrilled with your interpretation; you gave it tremendous pace and shaping."
- Composer Paul Patterson on a performance of his Magnificat by Wimbledon Choral Society, Southwark Cathedral, 20/11/09
"As their name demands, the choir articulated Handel's polyphonic writing with practised ease and under the baton of Neil Ferris the tempi fairly whizzed along."
- Rian Evans, The Guardian, 18/12/08
"...a wonderfully joyous programme from the hardworking Birmingham Bach Choir... Diction under
Neil Ferris, an exciting young conductor... was commendably clear."
- Christopher Morley, Birmingham Post 17/12/07
"I can say truly that for me, you have produced some of the most exciting singing I have ever
experienced and I am most grateful to you."
- Choir member, Birmingham Bach Choir
"Neil Ferris's conducting was intelligently precise and he drew from both orchestra and
chorus work of attractive purposefulness, as well as being admirable in his support of the soloists."
Review of Cardiff Polyphonic performance of Messiah, 3rd December 2006
- Music Web International
- Music Web International
"I was so taken with Concordia [Voices], so grateful to them for keeping me musically on the edge
of my seat and giving me a Messiah that didn't come alive only in the best bits."
- Howard Jacobsen, The Independent 19/11/05
"It is easy to run out of superlatives when reflecting on a high quality performance..."
On a performance with Candelight Opera of Donizetti's Don Pasquale
- Salisbury Journal 23/9/04
- Salisbury Journal 23/9/04
"In more than 30 years of choral singing I have never come across a better conductor
or musical director."
- Woking News and Mail 15/4/04
"Conducted by the young and inspiring Neil Ferris...the players were on particularly good form
throughout a highly demanding programme.... Delicate nuances in quiet passages were offset by the
exciting sonority of the full orchestra.... The audience were kept enthralled by the kaleidoscopic
variety of moods presented with such confident assertion."
Review of City of Southampton Orchestra concert
- Hampshire Chronicle
- Hampshire Chronicle