“...his music is serene, deep, it’s even breathing the heritage of Mahler. ”

“Evan’s music straddles definitions and categorisations. It has a beauty and accessibility, and yet it does not in the least bit shy away from the innovative approaches to harmony, rhythm, and melody that people can, in other 20th- and 21st-century music, find daunting. When you listen to this music you find yourself carried along by it, before you have even noticed how adventurous and exploratory its composition is.”

“Lawson’s music is, bar to bar, beautiful.”

“Lawson’s haunting, impactful music and Szesiong Todd’s lucid and lyrical libretto are a complementary marriage. And the incorporation of pianist as Minotaur, whose ominous expression is sporadically heard but unseen until turning the corner into the final space, is an ingenious conceit.”

“...Lawson found a striking compositional vein that promised a sort of catharsis; in this tragedy, you find a consolation that broadens out into a generous efflorescence before the inevitable descent to darkness.”