One of [the tour's] best finds is cellist Clancy Newman... [Newman] demonstrated a lush, generous tone that marks him out as an ideal chamber music player... the opening of the Shostakovich was gloriously eerie, triumphantly weird, with Newman negotiating the opening melody all in harmonics with the nail-biting grace of a tightrope walker.
Acclaim
Trio Harness Power of Understatement
— Harriet Cunningham,
Sydney Morning Herald