NEW ORLEANS TIMES PICAYUNE
“New Orleans Keyboard Competition”
August 9, 1999

“…Petronel Malan of South Africa won the second prize… Malan dazzled the audience with a strong rendition of Rachmaninoff’s Sonata no. 2… with bravura playing, Malan tore through the work with fierce intensity, resulting in a deeply moving performance…. Her reading of Busoni’s Sonatina Seconda shared the grand showiness, with intensely virtuosic lines framed by darkly evocative passages…. Malan opened her program wit an elegant, and at times playful, performance of Beethoven’s Sonata op. 81a. …”