O Sing Merrily SAB/keyboard. “We seldom get an A+SAB anthem; usually they’re watered-down, four-part arrangements intended for amateur groups with enough men. Well, this is one merry piece by a fine composer, and the fourth part will never be missed – especially in the beginning imitation where the alto’s second entrance gives the impression of a fourth part. The entire five and one-half pages repeats with a coda, so the choir even gets a second chance!”

ROLLIN SMITH IN THE AMERICAN ORGANIST, JULY 2009.

Presenta Nicholas Fairbank piezas barrocas y contemporeneas en el Festival de Organo, Miercoles, 26 de Octubre de 2011 13:50

NOTES FROM THE MORELIA INTERNATIONAL ORGAN FESTIVAL IN MORELIA, MICHOACAN, MEXICO, OCTOBER 22 – 29, 2011

“Victoria composer Nicholas Fairbank’s recent piano works prove him to be a composer worth studying. His charming Vancouver Island Suite … shows that he knows his forms and has a sense of fun. Toccata is a work to be reckoned with and requires an advanced technique as well as good interpretive skills. Ten Preludes contains an interesting mix of lush, very tonal and accessible music to technically and interpretively challenging 12-tone pieces.”

ERNST SCHNEIDER IN THE PROVINCIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE B.C. REGISTERED MUSIC TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION, SPRING 2002.

Fairbank’s writing is… consistently elegant, and devoted to beauty as a vehicle for text… Deserving special mention is his elaborate setting of If ye love Me, whose repetition of short text fragments breaks violently with the simple poise of Tallis’ beloved setting, but nonetheless conveys the warm sentiment of the Johannian text of Jesus to the disciples at Pentecost.”

CHRISTOPHER DAWES IN ORGAN CANADA, SEPT. 2006.