"To finish, Smart played Five Bagatelles by Carl Vine, including the Threnody for the Victims of Aids. ...this piece made the recital unforgettable."
The Australian

"...a formidable executant, with apparently unstressable stainless steel wrists..."
The Advertiser

"Since its inception in 1996, Gabriella Smart's Soundstream Project has been one of the small institutions that ensures the vitality of this city's musical fabric. Her programming, with its strong 20 th century focus, is often adventurous, always considered and presented with a sense of style. The first of Soundstream's two-concert cathedral series filled St Peter's resonant ambience with an eloquent, deeply engrossing journey..."
The Advertiser

"Making a triumphant return to the stage is pianist's Gabriella Smart's Soundstream Contemporary Music Ensemble...It's more than a return though, more like a full-tilt repositioning of her ensemble at the top end of our chamber music scene.... the performances were magnificent: intense, concentrated, and superbly finished."
The Adelaide Review

"In a sustained demonstration of expressive and technical stamina, Smart's intensely focused pianism was complemented by clarinetist Darren Skelton and cellist Sue-Ellen Paulsen."
The Advertiser

"There was a quiet brooding grandeur in her performance that, by stages, built to accentuate the sonata's (Carl Vine Sonata No 1) terrific, culminating muscular strength.... Carl Vine's mightily challenging First Piano Sonata, a landmark Australian composition, has a way of fairly pounding its way down one's ear canal; but Smart is a sensitive player whose warm, tactile feel makes even this work a relatively easy, pleasant passage."
The Adelaide Review

"Smart's subtlety leaves an indelible mark..."
The Independent

" the Polglase stood out from the crowd. It's a tough display piece, but one that gives the bravura a sense of purpose."
The Age

On Chinese Whispers, Smart's CD on the Move Records Label:
"...serenity and simplicity, silence and sound, melancholy and movement, dreams and dances, elegy and the expression of grief. ...Smart, a specialist in contemporary music, is sensitive to the subtle shifts in feeling, colour and atmosphere between each piece...I highly recommend this CD for an evocative journey into exotic and emotion-filled landscapes, through the medium of contemporary dance."
Fine Music (2MBS)

"It is hard not to get too excited about this record. I can't help but feel that Smart has discovered a true prism through which to view contemporary, and particularly Asian and Australian music."
Patrick Holland