“A cellist of power and grace”
– The Guardian

" a cellist of prodigious technical gifts and sharp intellect... Woods is an artist rooted in classical music, but whose cello is a vehicle that takes him, and his concertgoers, on wide-ranging journeys."
– The New York Times

"dazzlingly inventive... a musician of uncommon communicative power"
– Gramophone Magazine

"one of the finest young cellists of his generation"
– Gothamist

"In its curated cacophony, Difficult Grace elicits the same kind of awe you feel perusing your smartest friend’s bookshelf: Here are the ideas, artists, and words that shaped Woods, arranged in plain sight. Luckily for us, his library is ever growing."
– Chicago Reader

– I Care If You Listen

"Cellist Seth Parker Woods did the audience a service in reviving “Lamentations” by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, a singular composer who spent the twilight of his career at the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College Chicago. We need to hear more of “Perk’s” music, and in performances as impassioned as Woods’.”
– Chicago Tribune

"...cellist Seth Parker Woods, who is quickly becoming a groundbreaking new-music star both in the avant-garde and pop worlds.”
– Los Angeles Times

“Utterly thrilling, and Woods unstoppable performance was outstanding.”
– 5:4

Recent Press Highlights

• Strings Magazine May 2023 Cover Article on Difficult Grace

• Billboard Magazine Feature for Difficult Grace Album, April 2023

• Chicago Reader Feature on Difficult Grace, April 202

• Gramophone Magazine April 2023 – Review of Difficult Grace

• The Strad Podcast #78: Seth Parker Woods on practising octaves for cellist

• Minnesota Star Tribune Feature on Iced Bodies, January 2023
  

• Review: In ‘Difficult Grace,’ a Cellist Moves Beyond Classical Confines, The New York Times

• Cellist Seth Parker Woods brings Great Migration-inspired program to NYC, Gothamist/WNYC

• Five Minutes That Will Make you Love the Cello, The New York Times

• 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love 21st-Century Composers, The New York Times

• Iced Bodies, The Strad Magazine

• Newcity Music 45: Who Keeps Chicago in Tune 2020

• Seattle Symphony, Beyond the Stage with Seth Parker Woods
  

• Look and Listen Festival 2019 Recital Review

• Strings Magazine Cover Story 2017

• Bristling Energy: The Best Classical Music Moments of the Week, The New York Times

• Two Wings collaboration with Jason Moran and Alicia Hall Moran, The Chicago Tribune

• Best of Bandcamp Contemporary Classical: January 2016

• Julius Eastman Monday Evening Concerts, Los Angeles Times

• Album Review by Tim Rutherford Johnson

• Percorsi Musicali, Album Review

• DiMenna Center Review with Fred Ho feature, I Care if You Listen

• Review of Michael Vincent Waller album with feature of Seth Parker Woods

• Interview about Julius Eastman 

• Seattle Times Preview of Solo Recital

• Iced Bodies, Those Who Make Waves

• Iced Bodies, Cacophony Magazine

• SEM Ensemble review – Roscoe Mitchell played with startling precision, The Guardian 

• Best Albums of 2016, 5:4

• HCMF 2016: Seth Parker Woods, Ensemble Resonanz + Elliott Sharp + Gareth Davis, 5:4

• HCMF 2014: Quatuor Bozzini, Electric Spring @ 20, 5:4