From the press
... Croatian-American maestro Zvonimir Hacko led the ensembles to superb performances
The Register-Guard, Oregon

extraordinary three nights
... an achievement of unusual weight...
Led superbly by the (festival) Music Director Zvonimir Hacko, the performances sparkled ...
... Hacko lead the work (Mahler's "Titan") in a frequently all-out style that seemed well suited to the music, and the orchestra responded with a performance that justly could be called a victory ...

... Hacko was in his own element in this performance, raising to the melifluous, subtle, marvelously shifty challenges of this music with a flexible, supremely sensitive performance ...

... the orchestra had surprising coherence and unity, and it responded with notable fidelity to the commands of its leader (Hacko), who has a dynamic conducting style that was effective in quiet passages as well as the big climaxes ...

... Hacko showed how grand, exciting and even terrifying (this symphony) can be. The performance was full of wonder ...

Swinging back and forth from intensely soft or lyric to all-out emotional, the performance held the attention and created the kind of excitement that brings audiences to their feet.

Hacko has earned the right to be called the master of music.

"Hacko conducted with precision and dynamism eliciting a superb response from his ensemble"
Kronen Zeitung, Vienna

"With the assured leadership of the conductor (Zvonimir Hacko) the orchestra sounded exhilarating and polished"
Slobodna Dalmacija, Dubrovnik

"well within London's best professional standards"
The Times, London

“He not only made the walls of the great basilica tremble, but our hearts also."
National Basilica, Brussels