"The music is extraordinarily beautiful. Trew is a modernist, but he is also a melodist. There was not one ounce of dissonance in the score, which was cleverly written for a piano trio. It somehow rendered the music more melancholy, particularly given the ethereal quality of the vocal lines...above all, it was Trew’s glorious music that captured my being.”

—Paula Citron Ludwig van Toronto

“Ryan Trew’s elegant score suits the intimate drama”

-Jane Forner Opera Canada

“Lovely flute and oboe solos were a feature of Ryan Trew’s Hinterland with orchestral colours reminiscent of Holst and Walton…a very impressive debut indeed.”

- Harry Currie The Record

“Ryan Trew’s rather beautiful tonal score…is surprisingly colourful”

- John Gilks operaramblings