"...In this repertoire Filipec also demontrated that he is an authentic and brillant heir of that Easter European piano school which refers to Emil Gilels, Svjatoslav Richter and Lazar Berman. Powerful and subtle in exact degrees, with an infinite capability of frasing and poetical deepening in the most tremendous passages, almost ignoring interminable pianistic difficulties, Filipec dedicated himself to making music..."

Pablo Cohan, La Nación, Buenos Aires

"...The concert opened with Rachmaninoff's grandly conceived Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor Op. 36, composed in 1913 and revised in 1931, and the early Elegy Op. 3 No. 1. Only a virtuoso pianist who knew how to exploit all the resources of his instrument could have written the Sonata; it was a staple of Rachmaninoff's own repertoire. Goran Filipec, a brillant young pianist, played it to the hilt. The running passages and trills sparkled, the melodies sang, the great crashing chords filled the hall; he captured the drama, somberness and melancholy of the slow movement as well as of the Elegy..."

Edith Eisler, New York Concert Review

"… A pianist of the convincing interpretation and profiled artistic personality, of an, one could almost say, demonic concentration of energy, completly corresponding to the demands of the technical nature, which have been destined, in accordance with his own pianistic abilities, by the devilish Liszt in his legacy to the other pianists … His sovereignty was expressed in every segment of his performance, in the profileness of every single variation, in a deep, strong breath of every phrase, in the pianistic gesture, in the persuasiveness of the interpretation, in the impression of the whole performance…"

Bosiljka Peric-Kempf, Novi List

"… His playing was almost filigree at moments, without any trace of saturation… An interpretatively, emotionally and intellectually coherent sequence of images... "

Sanja Drazic , Slobodna Dalmacija

"… Full professional sovereignty amended with an energetic charge which makes his playing passionate and alive... A powerful musical expression out of standards... "

Sanja Drazic , Slobodna Dalmacija