“The morning program…also featured the sensitive percussionist Sae Hashimoto, in Lachenmann’s “Intérieur I.” A kaleidoscopic tour of sound production, it was so athletic that, when Hashimoto dropped a mallet and picked it up to play the next note without missing a beat, she looked more like a dancer recovering from a flub than an instrumentalist.

At Libbey Park on Sunday, she performed Saariaho’s “Six Japanese Gardens,” gorgeous sound portraits of real places that seemed, in this performance, to also capture Hashimoto’s technique: her shifting timbres amid unwaveringly steady beats; her balance of focus and fluid motion; the magical elegance with which she conjures simultaneous momentum and stasis.”

— The New York Times

“Two of the young soloists debuting at the festival could be stars in the making. Sunday morning, Sae Hashimoto, kept Uchida’s zen spirit alive in a luminous performance of Saariaho’s solo percussion piece, “Six Japanese Gardens.”

— the Los Angeles Times

“In between the quintet and sextet came Zorn’s adaptation of “The Gas Heart.” This was Zorn in absurdist-opera mode. Here, the JACK cellist Jay Campbell and Nichols joined two percussionists — Sae Hashimoto and Ches Smith — to form the cast. Smith provided expertly swinging rhythms at a traditional kit, but also slurped water and appeared to be operating a device that played back giddy laughter; when not playing vibraphone or other pitched percussion, Hashimoto could be seen torturing a pillow with a long whip or sawing a wooden board.”

— The new york times