"Mayer’s piano artistry is simply awe-inspiring. What he brings to the keyboard that is so wonderful land personal is sanity and a clarity of thinking that are combined with high imagination and articulate fingers. He has a keen sense of proportion—and inborn feeling for architecture—that lifts his playing into an individual realm."


"Mayer’s Mozart was dynamically marvelous (Concerto No. 27, St. Louis Symphony, Catherine Comet, conductor). He produced a good, full tone and molded it with remarkable variety within an appropriately narrow range."

"…drop-dead virtuosity…" (Liszt Totentanz, The Boston Pops, Keith Lockhart, conductor).

"The performance was straightforward, exciting, excellent, and the audience couldn’t have been happier." (Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue, The Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Carl St. Clair, conductor).

"After this spectacular debut there is no doubt we will be hearing a lot more from American pianist Steven Mayer."

"Steven Mayer truly lacks nothing when it comes to talent. It seemed for him a joy to conquer every difficulty and he gave a true display of fireworks with respect to dynamic nuances, accents, meaningful phrasings and surprising highpoints."