“Stefanizzi enchants”
Silvia Pilla, La Tribuna
“Massimo Stefanizzi is an excellent soloist, one of those interpreters who surrender to the musical experience”
Gaston Fournier
“Ecco un vero talento”
Gianluigi Gelmetti
“Some musicians please because of their ability, others move one through their character, yet others charm one with their personal magic; it is a great blessing to have one of these gifts and he has them all – and as if that were not enough, they are united in him in a marvellous balance.”
Maria Vittoria Romano
“One feels that music is always genuine for him and he genuinely feels it…”
Franco Donatoni
“It [M.S.’s music for Bedbound] is really something special. It is so elegaic and wonderfully moving...Congratulations....”
Enda Walsh
“When Massimo comes on stage I can at once feel his intense presence; he has what I would call in the theatre the equivalent of photogenicity.”
Mario Zanotto
“I have been watching the development of his abilities over a long period of time; conspicuous are his virtuosity and his surprising technique as also his refined artistic fantasy.”
Alirio Diaz
“...poetic tones of the virtuoso guitar player...”
Wiener Zeitung
“he can transform his instrument into a harp or an organ...”
Stefan M. Peters, Niederösterreichische Nachrichten
“A talent like this should become better known...”
Inge Konradi
“most unusual – his ear and musical intuition”
Aldo Clementi
“in my opinion he is an ideal partner for any singer”
Ugo Benelli
“Stefanizzi has that rare gift of an artist; the dignity of an archetype”
Leon Askin
“Stefanizzi is a great artist”
Hans Marte, Director of the Austrian National Library
“when he plays the music of Galilei in his own way I feel I am floating on a cloud...”
Maurizio Brusa
“Stefanizzi reminds me of the great violinists of the past; he possesses enormous energy which he turns into a message of pure beauty”
Hopkinson Smith
“Bravo....when he wants to!...at any rate a difficult person....”
Oscar Ghiglia
“A wonderful, sensitive and intense musician. His balance between temperament and lyrical feeling enchanted me”
Topsy Küppers