Christina Petrowska-Quilico

Christina Petrowska-Quilico (born December 30, 1948, Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian pianist.^[1] She is the second wife of Canadian baritone Louis Quilico.

Career

The Canadian Music Centre and the Canadian League of Composers announced on May 29, 2008 that Christina Petrowska Quilico was the recipient of the 2007 Friends of Canadian Music Award. This award honors those who have demonstrated a commitment to Canadian composers and their music. Petrowska-Quilico and composer Constantine Caravassilis have recently been named winners of the 2010 Harry Freedman Recording Award from the Canadian Music Centre. Their prize will go toward recording a two-CD set, for which they have also received a grant from the Ontario Arts Council.

Over the course of her career, Petrowska-Quilico has collaborated with a long list of international and Canadian composers, including Violet Archer, Pierre Boulez, Glenn Buhr, Michael Bussiere, John Cage, Christos Hatzis, Lowell Liebermann, Alexina Louie, R. Murray Schafter, Krzysztof Penderecki, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Claude Vivier,John Weinzweig and Michel-Georges Bregent, her first husband (died 1993). She has performed with most new music groups and chamber ensembles in Canada, as well as orchestras like the Toronto Symphony and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestras , National Arts Centre Orchestra, Esprit Orchestra and Vancouver Chamber Orchestra. Her concert tours, both as soloist and with her late husband, the Metropolitan Opera baritone Louis Quilico, have taken her across four continents. On the recital stage, her appearances include New York City venues such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Merkin Concert Hall.

Petrowska-Quilico's has more than 26 recordings of classical, romantic, new and world music, including a Juno-nominated CD with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and four CDs with Louis Quilico. Quilico's CD Virtuoso Piano Music of Our Time made its debut on the Space Shuttle Columbia with Canadian astronaut Steve MacLean. In September 2006, her recording of David Mott’s piano concerto “Eclipse” (which she premiered earlier in the year in a gala concert inaugurating the Recital Hall in York University’s Accolade Project) accompanied MacLean on the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Her latest recordings include the world premiere performances of the three-CD set of “Rivers” by Ann Southam as part of the Canadian Composer Portraits series, and the world premiere of a two-CD set of “16 Portraits – Romantic Etudes” by Michel-Georges Brégent, both on the Centrediscs label and most recently a 2 CD set of contemporary music called "Ings" the world premiere recording of "Pond Life" a 2 CD set by Ann Southam for Centrediscs and "Glass Houses Revisited" by Ann Southam. Her CD "3 Concerti" with the Toronto Symphony, National Arts Orchestra and Vancouver CBC Symphony in concerti by Alexina Louie, Larysa Kuzmenko and Violet Archer was nominated for a 2011 Juno in the category of Best Classical Composition for the Kuzmenko Concerto. Her 25th CD "The Liszt Anniversary Collection" was released in March 2011 and "Tapestries" another concerto CD will be released in the fall of 2011.

Petrowska-Quilico studied with Boris Berlin at the Royal Conservatory of Music, where she made her debut, with orchestra, at the age of 10. She studied at New York’s Juilliard School with Rosina Lhévinne, Jeaneane Dowis and Irwin Freundlich. She graduated with a Bachelor of Music (1968) and Master of Science (1970). At 14, she made her New York concert debut with the Municipal Arts Orchestra at Town Hall as a co-winner with fellow student Murray Perahia of the High School of the Performing Arts Concerto Competition. After graduation, she extended her doctoral studies at the Sorbonne in Paris having won a Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship and a French Government Grant, and later in Darmstadt and Berlin with Karlheinz Stockhausen and György Ligeti. She received nine grants from the Canada Council between 1964 and 1985. In 1978 she won a prize at the first international piano competition of the J.F.Kennedy -Rockefeller Foundation at the Kennedy Center in Washington. During the summer of 1985 under the auspices of the Department of External Affairs of Canada, she participated in eleven recitals in four countries in the Middle East. With the support of the Greek government she made two tours of Greece in 1988 and 1991.

Administration, Teaching, Art

She was music director of the Ottawa concert society Espace Musique 1985-89, for which she gave many solo and chamber music recitals and she served on the board of Opera Lyra1985-85. She was a member of the Canada Council's planning committee for new music 1996-98. She taught at the Royal Conservatory of Music 1979-82, at Carleton University1982-87 and at York University starting in 1987 where she is a Full Professor of Piano Performance and Musicology. She adjudicated at the Winnipeg New Music Festival and the Eckhardt-Grammattee international competition. Several exhibitions of her graphic art, including her 'musicolgraphical'poems on Boulez's Sonate No.3 (which were approved by the composer) were held in Canada, the USA and France. Her poems have been published in several journals and newspapers. She has published 3 books. Mr. Rigoletto: In Conversation with Louis Quilico Captus Press, Opera Illustrated: An Artistic Odyssey Captus Press and Go Away Sisyphus a collection of poems.

Petrowska-Quilico is the author and artist of three published books, including Opera Illustrated: An Artistic Odyssey and Mr. Rigoletto: In Conversation with Louis Quilico. She is professor of piano and musicology in the Department of Music at York University.

Discography

1. Ings CBC/Welspringe Productions 2 CD set of 15 international, Canadian and American works
2. Eclipse Centrediscs (music of David Mott)
3. Portraits: 16 Romantic Etudes Centrediscs (2CD set) music of Michel-Georges Bregent
4. Canadian Composers Portraits Centrediscs (2CD set) "Rivers" by Ann Southam
5. So You Want to Write a Fugue Centrediscs (Kati Agócs, Ana Sokolovic)
6. Chris Paul Harman Centrediscs music of Harman
7. Contemporary Piano Concerti CBC Records, Glenn Buhr piano concerto with the Winnipeg Symphony(nominated for a Juno for Best Classical Composition)
8. True North Gestival Healey Willan piano concerto with the Tai Pei Symphony]
9. Romantic Gems Welspringe Romantic piano music
10. Chopin & Liszt Welspringe Romantic piano music
11. Debussy Welspringe piano music of Claude Debussy
12. Vocal Gems Welspringe New York recital with baritone, Louis Quilico
13. Two of a Kind York Fine Arts, recital with baritone Louis Quilico
14. Chants Francais et Russes Welspringe, recital with baritone Louis Quilico
15. Mr. Rigoletto: My Life in Music Analekta, recital excerpts with Louis Quilico
16. Gems with an Edge CBC/Welspringe 20th century piano music
17. Mystic Streams CBC/Welspringe 20th century piano music
18. Northern Sirens York Fine Arts Canadian women composers
19. Virtuoso Piano Music of Our Own Time JLH Lasersound virtuoso piano music
20. Catbird Seat Trappist Recording with the Canadian Electronic Ensemble
21. Gems CBC/Conacord with Joseph Petric accordion
22. Pond Life music by Ann Southam on Centrediscs
23. 3 Concerti on Centrediscs. Piano concerti by Alexina Louie, Violet Archer and Larysa Kuzmenko with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Alex Pauk, conductor, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner, conductor, the Toronto Symphony, Jukka Pekka Saraste, conductor (nominated for a Juno for Best Classical Composition Larysa Kuzmenko concerto)
24. 24 Glass Houses Revisited by Ann Southam, revised, edited and performed by Christina Petrowska Quilico, Centrediscs 2011
25. 25 The Liszt Anniversary Collection performed by Christina Petrowska Quilico Welspringe Productions 2011
26. 26 Tapestries with Christina Petrowska Quilico, piano soloist and the Canadian Ukrainian Opera Chorus and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra in works by George Fiala and Heather Schmidt (Centrediscs)

^[2]==References==

1. ^ "Faculty". York University. http://www.yorku.ca/finearts/faculty/profs/petrows/petrows.htm. Retrieved 6 July 2011. 
2. ^ The Canadian Encyclopedia

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External links

• Official site
• Christina Petrowska-Quilico at The Canadian Encyclopedia
• Faculty page at York

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Name	Petrowska-Quilico, Christina
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Date of birth	December 30, 1948
Place of birth	Ottawa, Canada
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