David Patrick Stearns from the Philadelphia Inquirer highlighted Metropolis artist Kristin Lee and her performance with Astral Artists with pianist Alexandre Moutouzkine on November 6, 2011. The glowing review of their concert at Trinity Center for Urban Life in Philadelphia called it a “breakthrough” and “inspiring”:
“No pairing since violinist Soovin Kim and pianist Jeremy Denk has exhibited the kind of synergy with which the two both supported and competed with each other in the best possible way. Often, they seemed bent on topping each other, not with sparkle and brilliance (though such qualities were certainly there) but with specificity of insight and of characterization in a big, varied program of Poulenc, Adams, Ysaye, Messiaen, and Brahms.”