As Music Director of Musical Elements

J. ROCKWELL, NEW YORK TIMES
The new-music concerts presented by the group Musical Elements are distinguished by a willingness to combine new pieces with classics of the 20th -century repertory…a fine concert.

BLECHNER, SOHO WEEKLY NEWS
Daniel Asia skillfully conducted the performers, mostly young and very talented, in a program that was intelligently balanced between seriousness and good humor.

J. ROCKWELL, NEW YORK TIMES
As usual with Musical Elements, the performances, most of them conducted by Daniel Asia or Robert Beaser, were very good.

A. PORTER, THE NEW YORKER
I try not to miss Elements concerts. Contemporary-music events are sometimes solemn, gritty affairs; Mr. Asia and Mr. Beaser have a gift for choosing works that combine charm and grace with challenge…I’ve not heard the ensemble give a sloppy, uncaring, or dry performance, or misrepresent the spirit of a composition. The playing is warm, eager, and communicative, and the individual instrumentalists are expert.

J. ROCKWELL, NEW YORK TIMES
Mr. Beaser conducted with real spunk, and Mr. Asia did equally well by the Cummings and Del Tredici scores.

WECHSLER, MUSIC JOURNAL
Co-Music Directors Daniel Asia and Robert Beaser conducted the program, an evening which showed once again the value of Musical Elements, a superior contemporary music group not tied down by “friends” or cliques.

A. PORTER
The New Yorker

Daniel Asia and Robert Beaser, the musical directors of the ensemble Musical Elements, regularly devise coherent, attractive, and satisfying programs…. The performance, conducted by Daniel Asia, was delicate and intent.

NEW MILFORD, NEWS-TIMES
Remarkably suave and well-routined.

T. PAGE, NEW YORK TIMES
Musical Elements, a chamber ensemble under the direction of Daniel Asia and Robert Beaser, continues to present some of the most varied and rewarding programs in New York.