"Nothing about their collaboration results in restrained or sanctimonious music-making. The repertoire is red-blooded, and the Nickels deliver it with mastery, energy, and wit." (from review of CD "For 2 to Play") -Fanfare Magazine

"Fortepianists Nancy LeRoi Nickel and Timothy Nickel played Kozuleh's Concerto in B Flat Major for Piano Four Hands sitting at their narrow instrument elbowing each other like siblings at a dinner table. They played beautifully, and the music had the subtlety of batting eyelashes." - The Oregonian

"The Nickels are exquisite performers, able to adapt easily from one period to another. Each work is allowed to blossom with nuance and life. Nothing is slipshod, boring, or tawdry here. Just music making of the first rank." - The American Record Guide

"In the small concert hall, that most intimate of settings, fascinating work is being done by artists like Timothy and Nancy LeRoi Nickel...in their shared philosophy of the real need for music in the lives of children as well as adults, and the recognition of the interrelationships that make all the arts a family, they truly show that they are tuned to a higher key. _sforzando Magazine

"...virtuosic playing...a virtual swirling dance without ever getting entangled" - Die Welt (Berlin)

"The husband and wife team played with their customary skill. Their technique and timing were impeccable." -The Oregonian

"Their polished style and originale programme were winning qualities."... -
Music and Musicians International (London)

"...a performance of dazzling impact...the score (of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring) is astonishingly lucid when brilliantly played on the piano: details which even the finest orchestral performance can conceal are laid bare with wonderful effect. The playing of the duettists in Satie's "Entr'acte" was deftly pointed.... Congratulations to these lively pianists for introducing this lively essay." -Musical Opinion (London)

"Portland had an unusual number of premieres this season. A few of the better ones were Leonard Bernstein's "Arias and Barcarolles" (original version)., chamber music by LeRoy Jenkins, and a whole bunch of premieres performed on one program by Peter Serkin...The Bernstein "Arias" featured two pianists, Nancy and Timothy Nickel and two singers, Alyce Rogers and Kevin Walsh....The music was witty and well-crafted, and the perfomance was immensely enjoyable." -The Oregonian 6/90

"The program (at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall) ...was thoroughly accomplished technically and the ensemble playing was well-nigh perfect. What impressed me even more was the depth of understanding, the sincerity and warmth of their music-making, qualities one encounters so rarely these days. -Robert Starer, The Juilliard School

"Such exquisite togetherness in rhythm, tempo, technique, such single-mindedness of purpose, expression and feeling is breathtaking." -The Modesto Bee (CA)

"It was a program of dynamic contrasts- challenging music performed admirably. The Nickels' performance was electric...and enthusiastically received." -The Daily Chronicle (WA)

. "...the piano duo revealed their chief distinction: clarity, transparency, with highly cultivated articulation. The couple displayed the full range of their ability, from the warmest romantic sound all the way to brilliant pyrotechnics." -The Hamburger Abendblatt