"[The Mimesis Ensemble] offers an appealing program of 20th- and 21st-century works."

-Vivien Schweitzer

?Q2 Music, WQXR’s online station devoted to the newest trends and brightest stars in contemporary classical music, selected Critical Models as their Music Album of the Week on December 6, 2011. Katie Reimer was both Pianist and Executive Producer for this disc, and engaged artists for the disc such as the Lydian String Quartet and James Orleans, double bass player in the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

"There’s an embarrassment of riches on Critical Models, the debut solo album by 20-something composer Mohammed Fairouz. And yet the chamber nature of the record’s six pieces lends an unshakable sense of intoxicating intimacy."

Lucid Culture reviews Models and Paradigms, a concert celebrating Gunther Schuller's 85th Birthday at Weill at Carnegie Hall, and featuring music by Gunther Schuller and Mohammed Fairouz.

"the pianist Katie Reimer nimbly negotiating [Gunther Schuller Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano]'s starlit expanses and trickily skipping passages"

"[in Gunther Schuller's Paradigm Exchanges], Reimer got to hint gleefully at an evil buffoon theme, and then illuminate a murky bass clarinet drone."

The New York Times reviews Models and Paradigms, a concert celebrating Gunther Schuller's 85th Birthday, and featuring works by Gunther Schuller and Mohammed Fairouz.

"In [Gunther Schuller's] Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano (1999), the pianist Katie Reimer began with slow arpeggiated phrases...before shifting to a jumpier, more aggressive jazz-flavored finale"

"The players captured [Gunther Schuller's "Paradigm Exchanges"] controlled energy in moments like...a meditative piano solo from Ms. Reimer"

Nimet Habachy blogs writes about a tribute concert for Halim El-Dabh's 90th Birthday at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. "Pianist Katie Reimer, who worked extensively with El-Dabh at the New England Conservatory of Music, will offer the 1949 anti-war statement, Dark and Damp on the Front."