United States:

"Hamlisch put together an entertaining all-Gershwin program for this past weekend's National Symphony Orchestra concerts at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. He brought in pianist Paul Posnak to play some Gershwin improvisations he has transcribed and the "I Got Rhythm Variations". Posnak approaches this music with respect and passion, and produced readings that were as notable for their musicality and their artistic integrity as they were for their pianism".
-Joan Reinthaler, The Washington Post

“What several hundred of us heard is the real thing, like Gershwin playing right up there on stage. He seems immersed in the works he plays. No, not immersed but transported into that other world, the world in which these musicians lived and worked.” The Bloomington (Indiana) Herald-Telephone

“Comparing Posnak’s performances alongside the composer’s shows the re-creator to be as technically fluent, deceptively loose-limbed and temperamentally upbeat as Waller was in his prime.” The Richmond Times-Dispatch

"Dear Paul:
On your grand performance at yesterday's Musicale, my colleagues have reached a unanimous decision. It was brilliantly engaging, from first note to last." -Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court of the United States

"Pianist Posnak, Charlotte Symphony Present Premier Performance" (Chopin Concerto No.2). Posnak made the piano sing with just the right emphasis, timing and mood. Posnak played with astounding spirit, with both tenderness and strength. (In) the final movement, it was fun to watch Posnak's fingers fly across the keys on extremly rapid and difficult passages.. ..The audience's standing ovation demanded encores. Posnak obliged. He performed a note-for-note transcription from old recordings of an improvisation by George Gershwin of "Someone to Watch Over Me" with jazzy, sweet tenderness. In Posak's final encore, he recreated the magic of "Fats" Waller's stride style in "Ain't Misbehaven". Posnak is a unique master of the piano, no matter which style he plays." -The Charlotte Sun-Herald

“Posnak demonstrated the pianistic virtuosity for which he is well-known. In a continuing display of his ability to play in widely different musical styles, Posnak was as much at home with these jazz piano arrangements as he was with the Haydn, Chopin and Debussy works.” The Coral Gables Gazette

“The Jazz Concert was a hit, as it was a year ago...galvanizing” The Richmond(VA) News Leader

“And what a marvelous evening it turned out to be! Dr. Posnak, in addition to his classical career, has achieved a worldwide reputation for his jazz improvisations and his note-for-note transcriptions of the great jazz pianist-composers of the 1920’s and 30’s. The result was both familiar and distinctive.” Entertainment News And Views

REVIEWS: Europe and Asia:

"The audience was floored...no-one could have expected such strokes of genius. There could not have been a better opening of the "Jazz Lights 2003" series than with this pianist. Even without his explanatory comments, the audience could not help but value his transcriptions and improvisations. The way he swung through the ragtime, blues and jazz classics of the 20's and 30's with such purpose, how punctuated with light fingers he "flirted" with his keys, the refined audience had no choice but to shake their heads in disbelief and pay homage by bursting into spontaneous "oohs" and "ahs"...Paul Posnak could truly enjoy the applause and the endless calls for encores; he smiled broadly, as the storm of applause was more than deserved" -Die Schwäbische Post