Nicholas Fairbank, Composer

Performances 2002-2012

City Date Venue Performance Details
2 0 1 2
Powell River, BC 3-7 July Kathaumixw International Choral Festival Seulete Suy (premiere)
Ensemble Laude
Elizabeth MacIsaac, director
Victoria, BC 28 April "VCM Presents" Concert Series
Alix Goolden Hall
Rossignols (premiere)
Kathryn Whitney, soprano, Mary Jill McCulloch, flute
Nicholas Fairbank, organ
Sidney, BC 21 April "Seven Ages of Song"
St. Elizabeth's Church
Let Evening Come (premiere)
Via Choralis chamber choir
Nicholas Fairbank, director
Victoria, BC 17 February First Metropolitan United Church Suite for String Orchestra
Victoria Chamber Orchestra
Yariv Aloni, conductor
2 0 1 1
Morelia, Mexico 25 October Festival Internacional de Organo de Morelia
Catedral de Morelia
Festival Fanfare
Poem

Nicholas Fairbank, organ
Sidney, BC 16 October Peninsula ArtSea Festival
St. Elizabeth's Church
Sea Cantata
Viva Youth Choirs, Via Choralis, Sidney Festival Orchestra,
conducted by Nicholas Fairbank
Kelowna, BC 3 July St. Michael's Cathedral I's the B'y, Silver Penny, Un Canadien errant
Hexaphone vocal sextet
Penticton, BC 2 July St. Saviour's Anglican Church I's the B'y, Silver Penny, Un Canadien errant
Hexaphone vocal sextet
Hope, BC 1 July Christ Church National Historic Site I's the B'y, Silver Penny, Un Canadien errant
Hexaphone vocal sextet
Victoria, BC 18 May Grace Lutheran Church Six Chansons, 3 Animal Songs
and other works
Kerry-Anne Kutz, soprano
Nicholas Fairbank, piano
Duncan, BC 17 May Duncan United Church Six Chansons, 3 Animal Songs
and other works
Kerry-Anne Kutz, soprano
Nicholas Fairbank, piano
Campbell River, BC 16 May St. Peter's Church Six Chansons, 3 Animal Songs
and other works
Kerry-Anne Kutz, soprano
Nicholas Fairbank, piano
Victoria, BC 7 May Lutheran Church of the Cross Gare de Montréal
performed by Hexaphone and
chamber ensemble
Sidney, BC 17 April St. Elizabeth's Church Sea Cantata
Via Choralis choir and orchestra
with the Viva Youth Choirs
Victoria, BC 9 April St. Aidan's Church Sea Cantata(premiere)
Via Choralis choir and orchestra
with the Viva Youth Choirs
Meadville, PA
USA
12 March First Presbyterian Church St. Paul Fanfare
Kevin Dill, organ
Dr. Jennifer Dearden, trumpet
Victoria, BC 22 February Alix Goolden Hall Variations on "Kingsfold"
Marnie Giesbrecht, organ
Vancouver, BC 18 February Kerrisdale Presbyterian Church Variations on "Kingsfold"
Marnie Giesbrecht, organ
Sidney, BC 13 February St. Elizabeth's Church Sonnet, The Water is Wide
Via Choralis chamber choir
2 0 1 0
Victoria, BC 3 October "One-Man Band"
solo organ recital
Alix Goolden Hall
Renegade Rag (premiere)
Nicholas Fairbank, organ
Victoria, BC 21 July Pipes around the Pacific
Chinatown banquet
A Short History of the Pipe Organ (premiere)
performed by Hexaphone
Regina, SK 24 May Cathedral Village Arts Festival
Holy Rosary Cathedral
Variations on "Kingsfold"
Valerie Hall, organ
Victoria, BC 17 April St. Aidan's Church
"Sea to Sea"
Kite at Clover Point
Songlines of Praise
(premiere)
performed by Viva Youth Choirs
Victoria, BC 21 February St. John's Church
150th Anniversary Concert Series
The Dredger
performed by Hexaphone
Victoria, BC 6 January University of Victoria
Lunchtime Concert with Sharon and Harald Krebs
I Bless Thee, Lord
Sharon Krebs (soprano) and Nicholas Fairbank (baritone)
2 0 0 9
Victoria, BC 12 December St. Aidan's United Church Kite at Clover Point(premiere)
performed by the Viva Chorale
with Jeong-won Shin, flute
Duncan, BC 28 November Duncan United Church The Dredger
performed by Hexaphone
Victoria, BC 21 November Gordon Head U.C.
BCRMTA Canada Music Week Concert
Winnifred's Waltz
Variations on B.A.C.H.

Nicholas Fairbank, piano
Vancouver, BC 11 November St. Mary's Church, Kerrisdale Three Short Pieces
Susan Ohannesian, organ
Victoria, BC 11 October Grace Lutheran Church
Centennial Concert Series
Variations on B.A.C.H. (premiere)
Psalm 126 in Gospel Style (premiere)
My Inner Song
Sea Spirit
Two Fantasies

various performers
London, England 1 August Marylebone Parish Church
Annual Festival of New Organ Music
Festival Fanfare (premiere)
Kinesis
Martin Stacey and Steven Grahl, organists
Palmerston, ON 12 July Community Centre Auditorium Chant du Matin (premiere)
CNCM Summer Sizzle conference gala concert
Victoria, BC 23 May Lutheran Church of the Cross The Dredger
performed by Hexaphone
Victoria, BC 9 May First Metropolitan Church Barter (arr. SSAA)
Inspirata, dir. Signi Murgatroyd
Victoria, BC 24 April Christ Church Cathedral Variations on "Kingsfold",
Psalm 150 (premiere),
Linden Singers, dir. Garry Froese,
Nicholas Fairbank, organ
Victoria, BC 14 March Maritime Museum of BC From Heavenly Harmony (premiere),
The Dredger (premiere),
If the Wind is West..., The Silver Penny,
and folk song arrangements.
Hexaphone vocal ensemble
Victoria, BC 3 February Grace Lutheran Church Six Chansons (#1, 2, 4)
Catherine Lewis, soprano
Nicholas Fairbank, piano
2 0 0 8
Victoria, BC 20 October Carlton House The Silver Penny (première)
Via Choralis chamber choir
Victoria, BC 18 October Grace Lutheran Church The Yak, The Microbe, Barter
Duo Delirio
Victoria, BC 10 October Grace Lutheran Church Fine Knacks for Ladies, Un Canadien errant
Hexaphone
Montreal, QC 4 October Salle Bon Pasteur Quintette pour piano et cordes (première)
Richard Raymond, Quatuor Molinari
Victoria, BC 9 May Open Space
Voice++ Festival
Hexa-Phone (première)
members of Hexaphone
Victoria, BC 2 February Crystal Pool
New Currents Festival
Fine Knacks for Ladies, Pulsations
Hexaphone
Saanichton, BC 27 January St. Mary's Church
Sunday afternoon concert series
Fine Knacks for Ladies, Pulsations (première)
Hexaphone
2 0 0 7
Vancouver, BC 10 December
Western Front Miniature I
Vancouver Miniaturist Ensemble
Kelowna, BC 14 October
St. Michael's Cathedral Kinesis, Poem
Nicholas Fairbank (organ)
Victoria, BC 29 September St. Michael's Anglican Church Iroquois Song
Voces Intimae, dir. Tony Booker
Victoria, BC 8 September Philip Young Recital Hall, U. of Victoria Manifestations of Water
reading by Aventa Ensemble
Victoria, BC 6 September Christ Church Cathedral Kinesis
Patrick Wedd (organ)
Palmerston, ON 16 July Community Centre
Auditorium
A Sad Song (première)
CNCM Summer Sizzle conference gala concert 
Lunenburg, NS 13 May St. John's Church Kinesis, Poem
Nicholas Fairbank (organ)
Ottawa, ON 13 May
Rideau Park United Church Iroquois Song (première)
Harmonia Choir, dir. Kurt Ala-Kantti
Charlottetown, PEI 11 May St. Peter's Cathedral Kinesis, Poem
Nicholas Fairbank (organ)
Sidney, BC 20 April St. Elizabeth's Church Suite for String Orchestra
Sidney Classical Orchestra
dir. Stephen Brown
Ottawa, ON 25 March St. Luke's Anglican Church
Sunday recital series
Kinesis, Poem
Nicholas Fairbank (organ)
Victoria, BC 18 March Alix Goolden Hall, VCM
Faculty Chamber Music series
String Quartet “L'Hirondelle” (première)
VCM Faculty quartet
Vancouver, BC 17 March Western Front
303 E.8th Ave.
Sonic Boom Festival
Three Bagatelles, (première)
Turning Point Ensemble
Windsor, ON 11 March All Saints Church
Organ recital series
Kinesis, Poem
Nicholas Fairbank (organ)
2006
Victoria, BC 26 February Dominion Astrophysical Observatory (New Music in New Places) Four Limericks
Performed by Hexaphone
Montreal, QC 11 March Christ Church Cathedral
(Saturday Recital Series)
Three Short Pieces
Nicholas Fairbank (organ)
Vancouver, BC 3 April Orpheum Theatre
(Jean Coulthard Readings)
Dance
Open rehearsal by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Victoria, BC 9 April St. Aiden's United Church The Yak
Performed by the Viva boys concert choir
Montreal, QC 16 April Christ Church Cathedral
(Evensong) live broadcast on Radio Ville-Marie, FM 91.3
Kinesis (première)
Patrick Wedd (organ)
Victoria, BC 30 April Pemberton Chapel, Jubilee Hospital Fantasy for horn & organ (première)
David Watson (horn), N. Fairbank (organ)
Victoria, BC 14 May Open Space Gallery
510 Fort Street
If the Wind is West …(première)
Performed by Hexaphone
Saltspring Island, BC 2 June Artspring Theatre Gallery If the Wind is West …, Newfoundland folksongs
Performed by Hexaphone
Colwood, BC 3 June All Saints Anglican Church If the Wind is West …, Newfoundland folksongs
Performed by Hexaphone
Victoria, BC 4 June Alix Goolden Hall
Victoria Conservatory of Music
Quartet (revised 2005)
Walter Mony (vn), Larry de la Haye (cl), Larry Skaggs (vc), Nicholas Fairbank (pno)
Palmerston, ON 17 July Community Centre
CNCM Summer Sizzle Pedagogy Symposium
On-Track Boogie (première)
Amanda Bramhill, piano
Victoria, BC 26 July University of Victoria
P. Young Recital Hall
Vancouver Island Suite
Arne Sahlen (piano)
Yorkton, SK 13 August St. Mary's Cultural Centre
(CNCM Summer Sizzle Pedagogy Symposium)
On-Track Boogie
Piano soloist TBA
Montreal, QC 20 August Christ Church Cathedral Kinesis
Patrick Wedd (organ)
Victoria, BC 8 October St. Paul's Church, 150th anniversary service St. Paul Fanfare (première)
David Michaux (trumpet), Nicholas Fairbank (organ)
2 0 0 5
Victoria, BC 2 April School of Music, University of Victoria Gare de Montréal (première)
Text by Hélène Cazes
Performed by students from the School of Music, conducted by the composer
Victoria, BC 23 October St. Michael's Church (West Saanich Rd.) I Dreamed I Was a Cat
Catherine Fern Lewis (soprano), Nicholas Fairbank (piano)
Sidney, BC 11 November St. Elizabeth's Church Let us now Praise Famous Men
Via Choralis chamber choir, Michael Drislane (piano), conducted by Nicholas Fairbank
Victoria, BC 13 November Victoria Conservatory of Music Suite No. 2, Pentatonic Lullaby, Vancouver Island Suite, O Captain! My Captain!
Performed by students and faculty of the VCM
Victoria, BC 20 November St. Peter's Church (Lakehill) Four Limericks
Performed by Hexaphone
Victoria, BC 27 November St. Michael's Church (West Saanich Rd.) Four Limericks
Performed by Hexaphone
2 0 0 4
Victoria, BC 27 November Gordon Head United Church Sonata, Drinking Songs, The Yak
Nicholas Fairbank as featured composer by the BCRMT, Victoria Branch
2 0 0 3
Vancouver, BC 31 January St. James Church Kingsfold Variations
Nicholas Fairbank (organ)
Victoria, BC 1 May Wood Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music Six Chansons
Jared Hynnes (baritone)
Tim Plait (piano)
Victoria, BC 7 July Young Auditorium, University of Victoria Six Songs (première)
Catherine Fern Lewis (soprano)
Nicholas Fairbank (piano)
Toronto, ON 11 November St. James Cathedral 3 Pieces for Organ: Trio, Poem, Jig (première)
Nicholas Fairbank (organ)
Saltspring Island, BC 15 November Artspring Theatre 3 Limericks (première)
Hexaphone vocal ensemble
2 0 0 2
Victoria, BC 22 March St. John's Church 3 Animal Songs, Six Chansons, O Captain! My Captain!,
Toccata, Ten Preludes
(première),
Vancouver Island Suite, Kingsfold Variations,
Gaudeamus, and other works

Elizabeth MacIsaac, Anna Shill, Rachel Mitten (sopranos),
David Mitten (baritone), Tim Plait & Nicholas Fairbank
(piano & organ), Ensemble Sine Nomine
Qualicum, BC 27 October Art Gallery Suite No. 2 in C-
Nicholas Fairbank (harpsichord)
Victoria, BC 22 November Wood Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music Sonata (première)
Winifred Scott Wood (piano)

 

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