… Katherine Chi, who, soloing with the Richmond Symphony, gave the most incisive performance the Carpenter Theatre has seen this season.
Rachmaninoff’s rhapsody is dizzy and insouciant; the composer runs rings around Paganini’s theme, skittering from darkness to light and back.
Appropriately daring, Chi alternately harangued, then implored, then joshed the orchestra, all with a technical ferocity…
Richmond Times Dispatch | February 6, 2012