Through his art, Strom has brought back his spiritual Klezmer ancestors."
-TIME magazine

A leading light of the klezmer revival. Kinetic Energy flying all around."
-Time Out New York

Strom doesn't merely recapitulate new versions of the same standard repertoire.  He discovers previously unknown melodies... and develops arrangements that are often heavily flavored with co-territorial influences.  Strom also adds his own world-beat-influenced touches to the arrangements [and] long, dynamic, inventive instrumentals."
- Radio personality, author and cultural critic Seth Rogovoy

Strom and (Hot Pstromi) present a wide variety of music, infused with fine musicianship and bittersweet emotion."
- Scott Stephens, Spin The Globe

Hot Pstromi's virtuosity, passion and sonic energy reach into the past and push into the future. "
- Ashgrove Music

A klezmer supergroup."
- Houston Chronicle

 Violinist Yale Strom reinvents the emotional shtetl music scene in which Gypsy (Rom) and Jewish musicians slipped in and out of each other’s traveling bands in Eastern Europe."
- Montreal Gazette (Top Ten World Music Artists 2007)