"The wonderful oboist, Jacqueline Leclair is the soloist in Rands' Oboe Concertino..."
"Bernard Rands' MEMO 8, for solo oboe, played by the lively oboist Jacqueline Leclair..."
"There was a...superior 40-piece orchestra...and oboist Jacqueline Leclair added meaningful solos."
-Richard Dyer
"Dmaathen, for oboe and percussion, had Jacqueline Leclair precise in blowing chords and astonishing in creating a high whistle..."
-Paul Griffiths
Review of Maurizio Pollini's Carnegie Hall "Perspectives" March 14, 2001 concert:
"Jacqueline Leclair met [ Berio Sequenza VII's ] challenges with an electrifying agility."
-Allan Kozinn
Review of July 2000 Warebrook Festival concert:
"The evening concert was sheer joy.
Rands' Concertino for oboe and seven players is splendid-- a puckish, clever, wonderfully crafted number full of jittery hiccupping gestures leavened with more expressive moments....Performances were nearly all first-rate.
One can cite Jacqueline Leclair's stunning oboe playing (featuring a huge tone and sparkling technique) in the Concertino."
-David Cleary
Review of "June in Buffalo" performance of Rands Concertino:
"CONCERTINO is a delight...
Oboist Jacqueline Leclair...did a fine job throughout...dynamic...virtuostic..."
-Jan Jeziori
"Summer Island, for oboe and tape, brilliantly explores the extended timbral and technical possibilities of the oboe....Jacqueline Leclair....gives one of the finest, most colorful performances of contemporary oboe work I have yet heard."
-Jerry Tabor
Review of Roger Reynolds Summer Island, Neuma label:
"...Leclair's brilliant mastery of her instrument in stunning displays of runs, rapid double trills and articulations....rivet the listener's attention....
Her control is awesome and her attitude exuberant - all this and she even has a beautiful tone, rich and vibrant."
-Jeanne Belfy
Review of Roger Reynolds PARIS PIECES, Neuma label:
...the remarkably seductive SUMMER ISLAND, for oboe and computer-generated tape...radiates a near-to-hallucinatory sinuosity.
Oboist Jacqueline Leclair, a New York area freelance, sounds terrific. I hear passages that might well give Heinz Holliger pause."
-Mike Silverton
Review of Alice Tully Hall concert of SEM Ensemble:
"Very much of a surprise was the programming of Telemann's Overture in B-flat Major...This was a very competent and stylistically correct rendition with the dominant solo oboe part exceptionally performed by Jacqueline Leclair..."
-Antonin Matzner
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