“Bennett, whose eclectic tastes and influences embrace a wide range, is not easily pigeon-holed.”
Michael Dungan (writer and broadcaster). New Music News, February 2001

Ed Bennett’s You’re Always Right! is a 'very clever use of speech, song and attitude!'
Carmel Vesey, City Tribune

“…the brutal onslaught of Ed Bennett’s Staggering.”
Tom Service – The Guardian, January 2004

“…it was clear in this large work that not only had he been inspired by the occasion but he had succeeded in involving this huge orchestra with often very striking effect.”
Belfast Telegraph – September 2002

“Bennett and Halfyard produce a simultaneously mystifying and engrossing sound of crackling electronics, bursts of noise and washes of harmony over which floats the singular voice of Steve Halfyard pushing and prodding the music into new environments. Think of Berio’s work with Cathy Berberian colliding with modern electronic music and you’re getting closer…”
Richard Sanderson – London Musicians Collective, September 2001

“Ed Bennett combined exciting and original music with interesting new ideas, real professionalism and a unique sense of humour.”
Nezavisinaya Gazeta – Moscow, January 2002

"Descending figures of real beauty hang in a still, fragile setting."
Fanfare (USA)

“Ed Bennett’s Reaching was remarkable not only for thematic or harmonic invention, or even its use of the orchestra, some striking sonorities notwithstanding, but for its rhythmic energy and sheer determination to express itself.”
Dermot Gault – Irish Times

"Immediately Expressive. Sound that veers between the meditative and aggressive."
Gramaphone Magazine

“...this composer has a manic obsessive streak that is almost unsettling it is so genuine.”
Colin Clarke , Classical Music, January 2004

“...music of great lyrical beauty”
Musicweb