"...one of the most empathetic conductors I've ever worked with. One immediately senses his understanding of the singer and the song."
--- Nancy Shade, International soprano soloist
"...a highly intelligent, multi-talented musician...a sensitive and technically proficient conductor, a brilliantly gifted pianist, and imaginative and original composer. He also writes about music with revealing perception and elegant use of language.
--- Bernard Rands, Pulitzer Prize winning composer and conductor
"...a terrific virtuoso, Virko Baley."
--- Mark Swed, LOS ANGELES HERALD EXAMINER
"...among the very few who understand...that a classic should be performed as if it were new, and a new work as though it were a classic. Virko Baley is ideally suited to the task."
--- Mel Powell, composer and pianist
"...tight ensemble playing under the leadership of Baley."
--- William Weber, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"The performance of Verdi's Overture to the opera 'La Forza del Destino'...could have brought the composer to his feet."
--- Art Jones, RENO EVENING GAZETTE
"Nevada is suddenly bursting with major achievements in modern music...The Contemporary Music Festival...is the handiwork of Virko Baley."
--- Heuwell Tircuit, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"What's this? A festival of contemporary music in that capital of commercialism, Las Vegas? True enough... the kind of occassion one might expect to encounter at the Claremont Festival...What happened was this...Virko Baley...joined the faculty at the Las Vegas campus."
--- Daniel Cariaga, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"This has been a splendid season for the Las Vegas Symphony. Increased support from without and increased unity from within will assure for the organization a firm and brilliant future...Like Zorro, Music Director Virko Baley has struck again."
--- A. Wilbur Stevens, LAS VEGAS SUN
LAS VEGAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA REACHES MILESTONE. By far the most powerful and enjoyable performances and conducting by the Las Vegas Symphony Orchestra in its developmental history."
Bill Willard, LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL