“When one hears cellist Annie Jacobs-Perkins, one notices: she plays with her whole being—powerful, joyful, with striking technique, visible fantasy, and a presence that is emotional, mental, and expressed through her body language."
— Dr. Doris Kösterke, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
(original article not available for copyright reasons)
“…[Jacobs-Perkins’s] brought the old in dialogue with the new. That worked so well that parts of the old began to sound refreshingly modern, sometimes strange and often inventive…"
“…glistening, voice-like vibrato…"
“…rough and ready passages redolent of a rural dance, which Jacobs-Perkins accentuated to great effect.”
— Aryan Mohseni, State of the Art Media (review of Sydney Opera House recital debut)
Review: Annie Jacobs-Perkins, Utzon Music 2025 | State of the Art Media
"Jacobs-Perkins delivered the Largo with hypnotic lyricism, causing listeners to forget where they were for a moment. [Cellist Laurence] Lesser…pushed her to give the entire opening melody an archlike shape, so that it sang toward a climax, then subsided. Some people in the audience may have wondered why Lesser was tinkering with an already gorgeous rendition, but he offered a credo: ‘When someone plays as beautifully as you do, it’s easy for me to be fussy, because no matter how far we are there’s always more.’"
— Alex Ross, The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/06/06/the-piatigorsky-international-cello-festival
"What a sound! It comes from nowhere and solidifies into a melody full of sweetness. And then—delicate as a breath—it is gone again...One hardly ever hears [Schubert's] music as finely nuanced..."
— Felix Jureček, Kronen Zeitung