On CHROMA's live performances:

"Blind Date" - six opera shorts, with Tête à Tête opera company November 2007:

"expert playing from the ensemble CHROMA under Tim Murray's alert baton "
George Hall, The Guardian, Nov 2007

"The progeny of speed-dated librettists and composers as workshopped at Tete a Tete’s inaugural opera festival last August, Blind Date emerges now as polished full-length entertainment. Its six components, expertly projected by singers, ensemble and musical director Tim Murray are economically but memorably presented on a sparsely furnished open stage suffused with red light. "
David Gutman, The Stage, Nov 2007

"Odysseus Unwound" - composed by Julian Grant, libretto by Hattie Naylor
with Tête à Tête opera company, October-November 2006:

"the top-notch chamber ensemble CHROMA"
Erica Jeal, The Guardian 13 Oct 2006

"so beautifully played by CHROMA under Tim Murray, and so very well sung and acted that this shoe-string touring production is a must-see" Anna Picard, The Independent 22 October 2006

On Spital Fields - A Community Cantata, composer Jonathan Dove
(winner of the RPS Music Award 2006 for Education)
Christ Church, Spitalfields Festival June 2005:

"Musical alchemy creates perfect gem... a brilliant kaleidoscope of colour and mood, zestful and touching in equal measure, its exhilarating performance here a glowing tribute to the community spirit." Geoffrey Norris in The Telegraph 24 June 2005

"This brilliant 75-minute cantata is the best piece of community music-making I have seen in several years ... Dove also used the chamber ensemble CHROMA to produce both sinister shadows and moments of ethereal beauty, including one exquisitely calm, quasi-Elizabethan song for solo soprano and harp." The Times 24 June 2005

"At the medieval priory of Ewenny in Bridgend, it is as much the resonance of history as the acoustic that makes concerts such a vivid experience. On September 6, the players of the ensemble CHROMA used the reverberance to their advantage, creating some fine tone colours and harmonics: first in John Cooney's Chasing Shadows and then in the String Quartet no.2, Ring of Waves, by Gabriel Jackson. Here first violinist Marcus Barcham-Stevens brought a soaring beauty to phrases reminiscent of the pastoral ecstasy of Vaughan Williams.

CHROMA's cellist Clare O'Connell gave an evocative performance of two movements from Peter Reynolds' Suite for Cello: her tender tone lent a poignant edge to the lyrical barcarolle, while the eerie but atmospheric moto perpetuo was well controlled."
Rian Evans in the STRAD - December 2004

"CHROMA played with an unabashed and infectious passion... A fine example of the hidden gems the Festival can occasionally produce, a huge standing ovation came as no great surprise. More, please!"
THIS IS BRIGHTON AND HOVE - May 2004 - Ed Hughes' "In Memory of Colour" at the Brighton Festival

"The remarkable young chamber group CHROMA"
BIRMINGHAM POST - April 2003 - Bromsgrove 'Mixing Music' series

"Taking the disturbing grotesqueries of Goya's Los Caprichos as its starting-point, this sparky piece accumulates great kinetic energy. Violin, cello and the hyperactive piano often provide percussive effects to season the occasional long-breathed melody from clarinet and violin, and the whole piece exploits with tremendous success the natural empathy of the CHROMA players, to whom it is dedicated."
BIRMINGHAM POST - April 2003 - world première of Caprichos by Philip Cashian

"Featuring three wind soloists in turn, (Ritual Songs and Blessings) proved to be a beautifully constructed composition for seven musicians from the excellent young group CHROMA"
INDEPENDENT - June 20002 - Spitalfields Festival commission by Joseph Phibbs

"CHROMA could give such groups as the Nash and Endymion a run for their money...the cause of new music needs advocates like these"
DAILY TELEGRAPH - January 2001 - on CHROMA's South Bank debut

"The mixed ensemble CHROMA showed itself quite a find too - the Nash and Endymion had better start watching out"
THE CLASSICAL SOURCE - January 2001

"Ensemble playing of incomparable splendour"
HUDDERSFIELD EXAMINER - 2001

"Technically skilled and polished, the five young CHROMA instrumentalists were outstanding"
SHEFFIELD TELEGRAPH - 2000

"A fine sense of ensemble"
DAILY TELEGRAPH - 2001

On CHROMA's debut CD out on RiverRun records:

"**** - finely played by the ensemble CHROMA"
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE - December 2001 - a four-star rating

"A very welcome arrival on the chamber music scene...their excellent playing and interpretation is apparent throughout"
MUSICIAN'S UNION MAGAZINE - December 2001

"CHROMA's performance is exquisite...this is a CD for playing on a balmy summer evening with figs and Chablis to hand"
THE CLASSICAL SOURCE - January 2002