"Composition and its performance can have an organic relationship, a balance between written and the improvised. Muriel Grossmann’s wide compositional and performing talents are clearly reflected in four-voice pieces such as Diversity and Quintessence, suite-like compositions such as Flügel and Echo, as well as brisk, energetic works like Andrew. The quartet composed of Radomir Milojkovic on guitar, David Marroquin on upright bass, and Marko Jelaca on drums, has become a sound lab — a group where compositional ideas can be worked out, developed, and eventually recorded.
Austrian alto and soprano saxophonist and composer Muriel Grossmann states that her music started to move beyond harmony — melodies themselves became more independent — strengthening the idea of improvising phrases rather than clichés. Grossmann weaves lines with phrases drawn from the theme; she spins developments from new motifs with hard-driving rhythmic figures, making each interpretation an exciting and propulsive experience.
Muriel Grossmann’s music is complex, calling for a similar depth of emotional response from the listener, yet at the same time it is deeply swinging, moving the body as well as the spirit. This music provides the proof of her singular force of emotion and musical imagination. Although Grossmann’s music strongly reflects her own temperament, it is nonetheless sufficiently open to allow other individualist to be themselves within it. As a saxophonist and composer, Muriel Grossmann is building a very personal, substantial style and body of work. There is a strong sense of motivation in Grossmann’s music, along with a desire to continually discover who she is and to shape her music through that deepening knowledge." - J. L. Thompson