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Press Comments
- One of the central figures of the Irish jazz scene.
- Trinity College Journal, February23 1996
- His concert series has set standards for any others presenting modern jazz in Ireland.
- Sunday Business Post, September 28 1989
- One of Ireland's most innovative composers.
- Sunday Times, February 18 1994
- Guilfoyle's pieces are the product of an enterprising ear: atmospheric, harmonically adventurous, with an attractively ambiguous ease about them.
- Jazz Times, September 1999
- For Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
- The jazz influence was subtle - this was music that spoke with a demanding immediacy.
- Irish Examiner, 19th August 2002
- An exciting and dramatic work
- Journal of Music in Ireland, August 2002
- For Devsirme
- This unusual quintet plays colourful richly textured music that repays repeated listening.
- Sunday Independent,September 20 1997
- As fine a display of improvised music as any you'll hear this year.
- Evening Herald, June 30 1997
- Some of the most exciting and challenging contemporary Irish jazz.
- Dublin Event Guide, July 12 1997
- An extraordinary concentration of talent and commitment.
- Sunday Tribune, August 15 2000
- Devsirme is one of the most important bands in Europe at the moment and in Guilfoyle, Ireland has a world class composer whose talents have already been recognised elsewhere.
- Sunday Tribune, 5th November 2000
- For Bird
- This album is a triumph for the chemistry within the quartet.
- Irish Times,April 20 2000
- Masterful playing and ingenious reworking of some classic tunes.
- Journal of Music in Ireland, Nov/Dec 2000
- For Phantom City
- An effective example of stylistic fusion. "Phantom City" has ideas and a stylistic homogeneity usually lacking in such pieces.
- Irish Times, July 14 1997
- The accordion sonority is remarkably at home here, and the cadenza is breathtaking.
- Evening Herald , January 13 1998
- For RB Project 25
- An exciting, intelligent and skilful venture into musical cross fertilisation.
- Irish Times, October 15 1991
- For Avian
- Avian showed again the composer's outstanding ability to draw a surprising range of texture and colour from smaller ensembles while at the same time accommodating improvisation and keeping the whole focused.
- Irish Times, September 27 1999
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