Fox received a standing ovation from the Carnegie Hall audience for his performance and composition, and a glowing review from Anthony Tommasini at The New York Times. Calling the concerto "arresting" and "exceptionally interesting," Tommasini writes:  
"Mr. Fox, a composer, pianist and improviser who deftly draws from jazz and classical contemporary traditions, was the soloist in his intense, episodic 15-minute work. The blazingly scored orchestra part is fully composed. But the piano part, though well plotted, includes swaths of improvised, interactive music ... The piece opens with a fitful section, all gnashing brass, spiraling strings and searing harmonic angst. Mr. Fox’s piano playing, bursting with violent, keyboard-spanning runs, drove the music. A searching middle section quotes fragments of a Charlie Parker blues tune, 'Now’s the Time.' After a steely solo piano cadenza, the piece concludes with a pensive finale based on a descending, and strangely haunting, four-note refrain."

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Donal Fox: Peace Out for Improvised Piano and Orchestra

Peace Out, My Brother for Clarinet and Piano
World Premiere performance
On the Occasion of T.J. Anderson's 80th Birthday Tribute Concert
Granoff Music Center, Distler Performance Hall,
Tufts University, October 4, 2008
Eric Thomas, clarinet; Donal Fox, piano

T.J. Anderson 80th Birthday Tribute Concert Tufts "university

Peace Out, My Brother for Clarinet and Piano

Donal Fox: Confounding The Genre Police
Live at The 2022 Gilmore International Piano Festival
Variations On  Dolphin Dance/Maiden Voyage
A Tribute to Herbie Hancock
Civic Auditorium, May 12, 2022,

Donal Fox Variations on Dolphin Dance, Maiden Voyage

Donal Fox Variations on Brahms’ "Die Trauernde" (The Mourner)
WGBH Fraser Performance Studio
Live Streamed Concert, 
Boston, MA  December 3, 2021

Donal Fox Variations On Brahms’ "Die Trauernde" (The Mourner)

Commissioned by Frederick Moyer. Premiere: July 24, 2001, Frederick Moyer, piano, Round Top Center for the Arts Third Annual International Piano Festival, Damariscotta, Maine.  Publisher:  Leonellis Music

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Composer, pianist, and improviser, Donal Fox expertly fuses jazz, Afro-Latin and classical idioms into intricate new works and electrifying performances. Innovated Music that Touches the Soul

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