- She is without question the greatest living exponent of the klezmer fiddle...Seth Rogovoy, author of The Essential Klezmer
Brilliant Fiddling...Rhythm Music Magazine
Her fiddle ruled...New York Times
Violin playing with ...depth and urgency...L.A. Times
String work of uncommon beauty...Jazziz
Her sensitivity to string timbres was particularly affecting...Washington Post
Amazing gifts...Jewish Currents
Sinuous, demonic fiddle...Rootsworld
Alicia Svigals plays with inspiration and imagination; she has become one of the most distinctive instrumental voices in the klezmer idiom...the Jewish Forward
A violinist who makes her instrument sing as if it had a human voice...Willamette Week, Portland
Violinist Alicia Svigals...is a stunningly gifted player. She is equally capable of precise classical virtuosity as well as emotional abandon, and she delivered some of the concert's most transcendent moments...A succession of superlative solos...served to spiral the music into stratospheric realms unimagined in the music's original homeland...The Austin American Statesman
Alicia Svigals is an astonishingly agile violinist who climbs all over the fiddle with a passion that's as compelling in its nostalgic beauty as it is in its dazzling virtuousity... Reno press
Listening to Alicia Svigals' violin wail...is nothing short of an ethereal musical experience, like turning an ear to heaven and listening ...The Jewish Reporter (Las Vegas)
The dimension her fiddle adds to their music stunned a recent Knitting Factory audience...improvisational magic...dazzling virtuosity...Staten Island Sunday Advance
Alicia Svigals is an aggressive player who tackles the florid licks with gusto... Reading Eagle (Reading, PA)
Alicia Svigals plays a hauntingly beautiful violin...Union News (Springfield, MA)
In [Svigals' composition] the Dybbuk Shers, Perlman plays a duet with the violinist of the Klezmatics, Alicia Svigals. The two parts are so brilliantly interwoven that it is impossible to figure out who plays which part. I found this extremely beautiful and dynamic song the climax of[In the Fiddler's House]....Morgunbladid (Reykjavik, Iceland)
Alicia Svigals' violin spins a web as delicate, intricate, and durable as a spider's...Popmatters
Gorgeous, fierce, profound, heart wrenching talent...utter intensity and vision...Obie winning playwright Eve Ensler
My list of musicians with the tremendous courage to open themselves completely would have to include violinists Alicia Svigals, Stuff Smith, Svend Asmussen, and of course Joe Venuti...jazz fiddler Paul Anastasio in Fiddler Magazine
Alicia Svigals' violin virtuousity was utterly astonishing...dazzling as her passion prodded the band to higher places... Saratoga Springs Times Union
Bluegrass has Alison Kraus. Classical music has Sarah Chang. And klezmer has Alicia Svigals, its very own violin virtuoso... JUF News
[Itzhak Perlman] really catches fire during his practice session [on PBS documentary In the Fiddler's House...I attribute much of that to the soulful wizardry of Svigals' klezmer fiddling ...which fairly sets Perlman's frizzy hair on end. They trade fiddles, then trade back, and he keeps looking at her, amazed.... Riverfront Times