"Tay Cheng-Jim is a real discovery; an alto with a bright, firm, focussed tone of some power, something quite different in quality from the usual genteel falsetto."
Financial Times
"...his beautiful lyric quality made a great impression."
Het Parool – Amsterdam
"Wigmore Hall Recital – 'His voice already heard in some mixed concerts and opera is well-placed and it is produced quite easily and flexibly. In Handel his fine technique is displayed in fleet runs.' "
The Times
"His feeling for musical nuance and his exquisite pianissimo singing revealed his gifts to near perfection."
Daily Telegraph
"Tay Cheng-Jim, is a musical singer with considerable agility and an individual timbre of curiously sweet, piercing quality. He drew a good audience and much applause, justified by his sensitive interpretation of Berkeley's Three Greek Songs and of Brahms's two songs with viola obligato."
The Sunday Times
"Mr Tay is a rarity among counter-tenors in that he uses natural methods of voice production not falsetto. His voice in many ways is that of a male mezzo and his repertoire therefore convincingly much wider than that of the usual counter-tenor. He has a superb pianissimo quality in the higher register."
The Hong Kong Standard
"Another surprise was the counter-tenor Tay Cheng-Jim who fascinated us with his extraordinary pianissimo top-notes and mellow sound and his Aura of Radiance and spiritual attitude."
Svenska Dagbladet (Stockholm)