Nizhnii Nivgorod 2002, public newspaper "Nizhnii Novgorod News", Svetlana Kukina

....The ability to maintain any conversation is a special gift. Oleg Kireyev can enter any dialogue on the stage. His personal strength is unique, besides, and he acts very flexibly and smart. Playing a duet with Mike Ellis, an American with Russian origin roots, he becomes a radical. In a pair with Alexander Vinnitsky he floats freely in romantic aesthetics of ballades and romances. All of the sudden he sings a couplet of pre-war chanson, and then strikes with guttural. Arabian moods, Jew's-harp, the Soviet Union hymn, roaming across the hall, redressing, happening, vocal dialogue with the public – nothing seems to be an overkill. Since the “Orlan” ages Oleg loves the show, and makes it vitally and precisely. After the concert with Peter King, who was propagating the mainstream in American jazz, Oleg expressed himself as a delicate and bright partner, vividly replying the music passes. Taking the curtain call all the musicians played so overwhelming that sounds seemed to heave the hall with the audience high above the city. As Vyacheslav Ulanov happened to say, “You have nothing to add – brain is boiling, and that’s all.”