Nicholas Fairbank, Composer

News & Upcoming Performances

Nicholas Fairbank was one of 5 organ soloists in Mexico's Festival Internacional de Organo de Morelia this past October. Click here and here for details.

Hexaphone performed Gare de Montreal on May 7th, 2011, backed up by a 10-piece instrumental ensemble of some of Victoria's finest players.

For other news items go to news

For a complete list of upcoming and past performances go to performances.


Links:

vocal sextet

Via Choralis chamber choir

Viva Youth Choirs

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A publisher of new Canadian choral works as well as solo music for piano, pipe organ and voice. Printed publications are available by mail or through various retail outlets across the country.

F.M.P. publie des oeuvres pour piano, orgue, chant et choeur. Les partitions sont disponibles par la poste ou peuvent être  achetées dans des magasins de musique à travers le Canada.

Nicholas Fairbank lives and works in Victoria, BC, Canada. His music has been described as"carefully crafted", “consistently elegant, and devoted to beauty as a vehicle for text..." - "a composer worth studying". One of British Columbia's emerging composers, his works have been performed across the country and in Europe by such groups as the Turning Point Ensemble, Hexaphone, organists Patrick Wedd, Martin Stacey and Valerie Hall, sopranos Catherine Fern Lewis, Elizabeth MacIsaac and Kerry-Anne Kutz, pianist Richard Raymond and the Quatuor Molinari.





Video posted June 16th, 2011: Nicholas Fairbank plays Mendelssohn Sonata #3 on the 4-manual Casavant organ at the Victoria Conservatory of Music.

Videography: Jeff Birmingham





Video posted June 18th, 2011: Hexaphone vocal sextet performs "The Dredger".

Videography: Mike Zastre

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