"Performing with the flamboyant Trio Voronezh, he said, is 'Awesome. Awesome! I feel right at home. These guys are such skilled musicians -- their music is so dynamic -- who wouldn't want to dance to it?'" Read More...

"The traditional pieces soon brought the crowd to life, clapping enthusiastically as the rhythms accelerated and Volokhin's fingers flew across his domra. Petrukhin, his body moving in sync with his deep bass notes, and Teleshev, magisterially pulling everything together within the lush sounds of his bajan, completed the picture -- three players, alone on a large open stage, filling every crevice with their rich, imaginatively conceived music." Read More...

"Wednesday's concert featured the vastly talented Trio Voronezh ... Valerie Petruchin, Vladimir Volochin and Sergei Teleshev have mastered their instruments to astonishing degrees. Volochin is a Paganini of the domra, Teleshev handles the bajan with dazzling fingers, and Petruchin puts his whole body into each strum of the double-bass balalaika.... Their technique is flawless in any style, and their sense of rhythm sophisticated and nuanced."

"Throughout the concert, Volochin was a master, his face contorted with ecstasy and intense passion as his animated, fiery domra playing sounded like a cross between bluegrass king Bill Monroe and rock guitar titan Jimi Hendrix. If an all-star team were to be selected from the many musicians performing during the Florida International Festival, Volochin would be on its first string."

"No matter what compositional territory they entered, they always sailed through it with a native's stylistic sympathies."