The Knights: Music as Serious Play...The key ingredient for sustainability anywhere seems to be musicians’ passion for the music they play.

"As always with the Knights it was a careening, intense performance..The austere dissonances of the octet’s second movement, as well as the performance’s exuberance and rhythmic bite, seemed, in the group’s thoughtful programming, an outgrowth of the first half of the concert."

symphony orchestra that votes on what it will play. For that reason alone, "We Are the Knights" becomes intriguing television."

"Talent for punctuating classics with surprises...to the extent that this ensemble has a formula, it is based on balancing new and unusual works with the most basic canonic classics." 

"As cultures blend, as art forms meld with one another and with science and other disciplines, all is convergence, and the cellist Yo-Yo Ma is somehow at the center. "

"intensity, exuberance, and commitment" and "intoxicating whirl'"

""But if we are to talk about the future of classical music in America, sooner or later, the Knights will come up...musicians with a modern sensibility, a wide repertory of works new and old, along with a crusading musical mission...;"

"a vivacious performance of Rossini's 'Barber of Seville' Overture...a spirited rendition of Haydn's 'Clock' Symphony..."

""New Worlds artfully takes a characteristically diverse and ambitious selection of works from the Romantic era through the present day and casts them as a suite...that it works so well is a triumph worth celebrating;"

"After a regal fanfare played on trumpets and timpani...an appropriately brisk, breezy account of Mendelssohn's Overture..."

""Their tangible enthusiasm and affection very much brighten this Spring, and the ensemble’s sections seem to dance under the direction of conductor Eric Jacobsen. These youths are serving music very well.""

 "...how well can than they do standard, 19th century fare? If you're The Knights and cello soloist Jan Vogler, about as well as the Czech Philharmonic does Dvorák."

 "Inspired by The Knights' performance of a concert of "New World" music in Dresden...cunningly programmed indeed."

‘Few ensembles are as adept at mixing old music with new as the dynamic young Brooklyn orchestra’ 

‘their new album "New Worlds"...arguably this work [Ives' The Unanswered Question] has never been played so beautifully and magically as now’

'...Vogler and The Knights deftly navigating the tricky dynamics from a whisper to a scream'

'he (Jan Vogler) and The Knights capture the spiky spirit of the piece with more character than most'

"You don't quite know why they audaciously call themselves The Knights for it is a 20th century dedicated orchestral ensemble. They are wonderfully able to strum low notes, glissando and set rhythmic accents by pausing..."

"What kind of orchestra? "The Knights", the musical warriors of New York!"

"Die Knights vereinen alles, was heute wichtig ist: Sie sind stilistisch ungeheuer vielseitig und gleichzeitig exzellent ausgebildet"

"Mr. Jacobsen was an interpretive dynamo..." 

Jan Vogler and The Knights, Experience: Live In New York