Recent Press
05.28.2026 | "Under the direction of Elizabeth Weinfield, the ensemble plays with ruddy energy, eschewing the overly careful approach that can push a French overture into unfortunate daintiness..."
— Anne E. Johnson, Early Music America


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03.14.2026 | "Made by the Italian luthier Pietro Antonio Dalla Costa, and reportedly acquired by Mozart after his move to Vienna in 1781, it is one of two violins associated with the composer’s early adulthood. As such, says violinist Jude Ziliak, who will play it in Sonnambula’s concert, it rarely leaves its home: the Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg. Ziliak will not be permitted access to it until a few hours before the performance..."
— Hannah Nepilová, Financial Times

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11.04.2026 | "...a sublime performance by the early music specialists of Sonnambula with the exquisite presence of bass-baritone [Davóne] Tines."
— Richard Sasanow, Broadway World



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11.04.2025 | "...a creative reconstruction...Elegantly played laments and dances... a thought-provoking hour, offering new contextual insight into period music and art that we think we know."
— Heidi Waleson, The Wall Street Journal
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11.03.2025 | "Highbrow and brilliant." New York Magazine "Approval Matrix"
10.12.2019 | "Sonnambula shakes it up with early Baroque music for viols"
— David Wright, The New York Classical Review
10/11/2019 | Sonnambula Performs Works by 17th-Century Converso Leonora Duarte
— Susan Lewis, Live from WRTI
06.07.2019 | "Leonora Duarte par l'Ensemble Sonnambula"
— Salomé Coq, ComposHer
02.25.2019 | "The absence of historical celebrities hardly hurt attendance... It’s tempting to describe [Leonora Duarte's] Sinfonias as jewel-like in construction. You could also compare them to Vermeer’s paintings, small in scale and infinite in depth... For a remarkable hour on a cold February night, their world came alive again."
— Alex Ross, The New Yorker
09.17.2017 | "The 'Marche pour la Cérémonie Turque' was the most delicately phrased – I’m tempted to say the most musical – rendition I’ve heard."
​— Jon Sobel, ​Blogcritics
04.09.2015 | "a superb NYC-based viol consort that might well have been featured in Carnegie's [Before Bach] lineup..." 
— Alex Ross,The Rest is Noise
04.13.2015 | "Elizabeth Weinfield's spirited defense of her instrument..."
​— Alex Ross, "The Quiet Man," The New Yorker
04.09.2015 | "fine home-town group..."
— The New Yorker
05.21.2012 | "the group produced a warm, full sound..." From "Sonnambulation in the West Village"
​— Alex Ross, The Rest is Noise
"Rockin' the Viol": Amy Domingues
— Bret McCabe, Johns Hopkins Magazine
"Five Minutes with Elizabeth Weinfield"
— Greg Cahill, STRINGS Magazine
"Early Music, Autumn and Winter, in New York City"
— Michael Miller, New York Arts