Press

  • “Applause already sounded immediately after Nico Couck’s most expressive cadenza yet still during the concerto.”

    — TASS, 2020

  • "Nico Couck haalde alles uit zijn instrument. Hij verlegde de grenzen."

    — Klassiek Centraal, 2020

  • "A heroic effort with a score that imposes unrelenting demands on its performers. [...] Guitarists Nico Couck and Yaron Deutsch and the cellists Séverine Ballon and Christina Meissner were featured in the solo instrumental parts."

    — New Yorker, 2017

  • "At times he looks as if he’s playing on an Xbox joystick more than on the strings of the instrument itself."

    — Luxembourg Times, 2016

  • "A single performer, here the agile Nico Couck, plays a twangy, boozy guitar part [...] and it’s irresistible."

    — New York Times, 2015

  • "Belgian-born guitarist Nico Couck blissfully stretched conventions of classical, acoustic, and electric guitar thinking."

    — Santa Barbara Independent, 2015

  • "Couck brings tremendous technique to Reciprocity: the album really is as much about the composer’s instructions as it is about the musician’s interpretation."

    — Tempo, 2014

  • "Met Coucks trefzekerheid en souplesse resulteert dit in een release die even scherp als elegant klinkt en die de luisteraar op een ware rollercoaster gooit."

    — Kwadratuur, 2013