The Boston Globe
By Anthony Tommasini

… Ben-Dor is an exceptionally lively and intelligent musician and an accomplished technician. … At the concert’s conclusion they paid her the highest compliment musicians can bestow, refusing her urgings to stand up and share the applause.

And if on-stage Ben-Dor is a handsome, vital, charismatic presence, this seems not an extra dividend but rather part of the reason she is so effective a musician.

… With Ben-Dor at the helm and Gunther Schuller installed as conductor laureate, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra couldn’t be in better shape for the future.