"It was a performance that accomplished the seemingly impossible feat of utterly redefining for its hearers one of the most familiar works in the piano repertoire (Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto #1) ... was distinguished by what was without doubt one of the most spectacular and exciting performances by a pianist that many in the audience, myself included, had ever heard."

"Marina Lomazov is certainly one of the best young pianists in America today ... she plays with fire in her fingers and such a passion for the music that she carries the audience into a land of musical fantasy, like few pianists do.

"Lomazov thrilled the overflow crowd with power and charm ... her slender figure conceals great tensile strength of backbone and forearms, which fully supported an enormous range of dynamics and of tone color, and made her performance riveting both to watch and to hear."

"No pianist performing in Key West has ever played better or more brilliantly than the lavishly gifted and dynamically self-confident Ms. Lomaozv."

"It is easy to make the piano sing. Making it cry is far more difficult. But that’s exactly what Ukrainian-born pianist Marina Lomazov did ... execution of dazzling musicianship that demanded not only superior piano technique but also the intelligence to conceive of the music’s framework and the emotional range to carry it off."

"Lomazov was turbocharged with Beethoven’s Op. 111 C Minor Sonata. Her steely fingers sparkled fireworks. When the music required Lomazov to sing, she proved herself a diva of the piano."