Gallery Talk for Breath of Life: C.B. Fisk, Designers & Builders of Pipe Organs at Janet & William Ellery James Center, CAM Green.

The Gallery Talk followed C.B. Fisk Architectural Designer, Charles Nazarian to learn about the collaborative design process behind the remarkable custom-built instruments. The discussion focused on the ten scale models while offering a walking tour of the gallery.

Charles Nazarian is an architectural designer associated with the Fisk firm for 44 years. Hired in February 1975, he was trained by the late Charles B. Fisk during a 5-year organ-building apprenticeship, gradually specializing in model-making, case design and collaborative design relationships within the Fisk team but equally with clients and professionals outside of the firm on each project. Today he has his own firm and is an active consultant with C.B. Fisk. Nazarian is known on Cape Ann for his historically informed design of period-style homes, both new and renovated, to complement the local architecture. Recognized as a distinguished pipe-organ designer, his work has been documented in many professional journals.