Mark O'Connor
“The audience was on its feet…cheering for the only musician today who can reach so deeply first into the refined, then the vernacular, giving his listeners a complex, sophisticated piece of early-21st-century classical music and then knocking them dead with the brown-dirt whine of a Texas fiddle.”
- New York Times
“Mark O’Connor has been astounding his listeners with his genius since he was 13. I believe he and Itzhak Perlman are two of the greatest musicians on the planet today.”
- Chet Atkins
“It was an honor and pleasure for us to play with you and experience the power and depth of your musical vision. I have the deepest respect for you and what you are trying to achieve on behalf of American Music. You are a national treasure.”
- Wynton Marsalis