“… Juan Carlos Casimiro's “SL-TN” opens today at the “Sala Bach” in Amsterdam, composition for flute, marimba and string quartet…”

“… On the melody of the “saltón”, to which popular asturian themes are joined as “Villaviciosa hermosa” and the “Xiringuelu”, Juan Carlos Casimiro creates a chamber composition in which he combines two different and oposite stylistic concepts. On the one hand, the asturian folk and, on the other hand, an ultra-modern aesthetics related, under very free criteria, to the serial and dodecaphonic music characteristics…”

Review of the play “SL-TN” of Juan Carlos Casimiro.
E. Montes Miguel. La Nueva España, December 28, 2004.

“… Ana García will open at the “Sala Bach” in Amsterdam with a Casimiro´s score for flute, marimba and string. This play, under the suggestive name of “SL-TN”, evokes the story of the asturian “saltón”.

Review of the Symphonic play “Saelia” of Juan Carlos Casimiro.
Cuca Alonso. La Nueva España, June 25, 2004.

“… Last night, the feast of Saint John, one of the most tradicional dates of the asturian calendar, Juan Carlos Casimiro great performance finally reached fruition...”

“… Under the title «Danza Prima», the concert offered three plays: «Saelia», dedicated to the Sella River as a compendium of the Eastern Asturian-spirit, «Somiedo» and finally «Danza Prima»…”

“… «Danza Prima» is wonderful and richly entertaining as well as well scripted…”

Review of the play “Busgosu” of Juan Carlos Casimiro.
C. Marina. La Nueva España, 2004.

“… Juan Carlos Casimiro will open will open a play at the Hague Conservatory. The Asturian composer carried out «Busgosu», for clarinet and soloist…”

Review of the new “Danza Prima” CD edition of Juan Carlos Casimiro.
J.C.G. La Nueva España, October 23, 2003.

“… Coinciding with the concert at the “Jovellanos Theatre”, a CD edition performed by the Symphonic Orchestra Julián Orbón, under the conductor José María Martínez, with the tenor Aurelio Gabaldón and the choirs «Schola Nova» and «Villa de Jovellanos» is today being released. The play, which may be purchased for 15 euros in most newsagents, has been edited by Ámbitu and with it goes a multimedia CD-Rom containing interviews, videos, photos, lyrics, information about the play, etc…”

Review of the spectacle “Looking for the north” of Juan Carlos Casimiro.
Erika Valles. La Nueva España, August 17, 2003.

“… The spectacle “Looking for the north” captivated the audience in the Main Square. They opened with a “Corri-corri” (typical dance of Llanes village) linking up well the chamber music and the folk music…”

Review of the symphonic play “Somiedo” of Juan Carlos Casimiro.
Ramón Avello. El Comercio, June 25, 2003.

“… The most significant part of the play is the “vaqueirada” of the last movement, orchestrated with an attractive and very contemporary coarseness…”

Review of the symphonic play “Somiedo” of Juan Carlos Casimiro.
María Bernardo. La Nueva España, June 25, 2003.

“…”Somiedo” is a contemporary symphony made up of four movements: “ The illusionary valley”, “In the lake”, “La braña”, and “Vaqueiros”- Alzada, song and dance-,with texts selected by Juan Carlos Espina and sang by the soprano Beatriz Díaz and the tenor Aurelio Gabaldón, whose great quality shone through…”

“… The musical play was surprising for its instrumentation, its frenzied rhythms, passion, strengh and extremely defined textures. The indigenous element present in the text, in the rythms, vocals and in general in all the music coexisted with the contemporary musical vision being precise and well selected by the composer…”

Review of the “pasodoble” “La Ancianita” of Juan Carlos Casimiro.
Sonia Polo. Tribuna de Salamanca, November 26, 2001.

“… Great expectation for the first public presentation of the “pasodoble La Ancianita”. A musical composition of Juan Carlos Casimiro that Professor Rodolfo J. Rodríguez playied for the audience that packed the “Ateneo Cultural del Casino Obrero”. Significantly this event was also put on by the journalist and writer Miguel Mayoral…”

Review of the symphonic play “Wedding at Cana” of Juan Carlos Casimiro.
Ramón G. Avello. El Comercio, March 19, 1997.

“… “Wedding at Cana” is a strictly formal clear composition as well as being understandable. It begins with an instrumental introduction that is developed around de initial musical score of the bass strings…”

“… Chimingly, he obtained interesting effects with a combination of strings and percussion, that create an atmosphere of expressive fantasy”.

Review of the symphonic play “Wedding at Cana” of Juan Carlos Casimiro.
Francisco Prendes. La Nueva España, March 18, 1997.

“… The Orchestra of the Conservatory “Julián Orbón” of Avilés opened brilliantly opened brilliantly the XX week of religious music yesterday with the play of the Madrid composer based in Gijón, Juan Carlos Casimiro…”

Review of the play “Tríptico Asturiano” of Juan Carlos Casimiro.
El Comercio, March 15, 1996.

“… Juan Carlos Casimiro is the author of the first play of the CD ”Tríptico Asturiano”, three scenes for string orchestra -song of the Xana, Nuberu and Trasgos Dance – inspired by Asturian mythology…”

“… In these three pieces, under their descriptive elements -for example the image of the storm provoked by our Nuberu- there is an unusual formal orientation regarding the repetition of melodic elements gathered,repeated and structured to make up the play…”

“…in the end, it works…”