Critical Acclaim

 Zaimont is a serious artist, formidably endowed, and capable of a broad audience appeal.
                                                --   FANFARE

Her music immediately immerses the auditor in Zaimont’s own soundscape …. This is music sown with seeds of greatness.                      --  FANFARE  2012

These pieces are terrifically good in many ways. Zaimont’s harmonic language is intriguing and well-handled. The overall sound world here is relatively dissonant, yet clearly contains tonal underpinnings.  Surprisingly, she is able to effectively juggle triads, more astringent verticals, and extended techniques within this style.   A wide range of moods is also tellingly delineated here; there is much variety of atmosphere, and Zaimont clearly possesses a keen sense of characterization, pacing and drama. 
                            Best of all each piece inhabits its own emotional world.
                                                -- NEW MUSIC CONNOISSEUR 

Life on this earth is simply too short: If I had more time here, I’d travel to her residence and insist that she play for me every note she’d ever composed….  [T]hese two masterworks are exemplary in all parameters….  Indeed, you will not want to miss this profoundly moving pair of works.               
                                                --  Canfield,  FANFARE 2016

A composer of the first rank - a mid-career master.
                     -- NEW MUSIC CONNOISSEUR

The music is handsomely turned with flashes of brilliance. There are no arid passages, nor is there any padding at all.  Zaimont has enriched the literature.    -- SYRACUSE POST-STANDARD

A colorful and commanding work.  This is contemporary music you really want to hear again.                                                                        --  THE NEW RECORDS       

A composer worthy of her broad recognition is Judith Lang Zaimont, whose high-voltage, glittering [work] proved completely satisfying.
                                                 -- THE WASHINGTON POST

Irresistible... The music enchants.     
                -- GRAMOPHONE - October/November 2007

Elegant, gorgeous, and revelatory.   
               -- WORLD Magazine - July 2007

Exquisitely crafted, vividly characterized and wholly appealing.  
                     -- NEW YORK TIMES

Beautiful and original.                         -- PIANO QUARTERLY

Expressive and idiomatic works.   
                               -- CLAVIER

Interesting and distinctive.  Enjoyable, intelligent,  consistently inventive and accomplished music. 
                   -- MUSIC WEB INTERNATIONAL   2007

A piece of considerable poetic and incantatory power -- compelling rhythmic energy, provocative instrumental textures and haunting melismatic melody.  
                                               -- OVATION

Zaimont lays out in clear display her formal concepts, contained masterfully by a centrifugal moving tonality
that never lacks direction.      
                             -- GREENVILLE (SC) NEWS

Uncommonly  attractive  music.
                    --  FANFARE

Beautiful music.  Enthusiastically recommended to every lover of chamber music with strings and piano.                                                                  --FANFARE

Zaimont's vocal solo works are a unique contribution to contemporary song literature.  They are of high quality and lasting significance.                
                                                     -- NATS JOURNAL

Its elegant piano accompaniments, the greatly varied but always coherent melodic writing made this piece intensely interesting and at times quite beautiful.      
       -- NEW YORK TIMES

Judith Lang Zaimont is one of the foremost composers active on the American scene.
                                                -- CHORAL JOURNAL

 An excellent work, its disparate elements fused with remarkable skill.  Indeed, listening to Zaimont’s music, one often thinks that if a common musical language could exist in the late 20th century, it might sound like this.    
                                                           -- BALTIMORE SUN