Chicago Symphony OrchestraCynthia YehReview Chicago Classical Review: “Gaffigan led a taut and concentrated performance”
Chicago Symphony OrchestraCynthia YehReview Chicago Tribune: “Gaffigan offered an intense, full-throated reading”
Hollywood BowlLA PhilReview Gaffigan conducts ➡️ “LA Phil Fills the Bowl with Sophisticated Rhythms” -San Francisco Classical Voice
CarmenReviewSan Francisco Opera “Leading the orchestra with a sure and energetic hand, he coaxes the loveliest of sounds and maintains thrust throughout the performance.”-Bay Area Reporter
CarmenReviewSan Francisco Opera “Gaffigan, making a commendable company debut, urged the orchestra forward from the score’s opening pages. Yet Gaffigan never slighted Bizet’s tender episodes, such as the lovely Entr’acte preceding Act III”-OPERA NEWS
ReviewSan Francisco Symphony “making a powerful and often ingenious case for a vibrant slice of midcentury Americana” -San Francisco Chronicle
Dallas SymphonyReview Dallas Symphony and Chorus “under conductor Gaffigan was very fine indeed” -Theater Jones
Dallas SymphonyReview “Gaffigan, Dallas Symphony and Chorus bring out the dark brilliance of ‘The Bells'” -Texas Classical Review
Dallas SymphonyReview “Flashy Liszt, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff from conductor James Gaffigan, the Dallas Symphony and Chorus” -Dallas News
Luzerner SinfonieorchesterReview “James Gaffigan offered a captivating, American-influenced program” -Luzerner Zeitung