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Pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico, one of Canada’s leading interpreters of contemporary music, joined the Koffler Chamber Orchestra and conductor Jacques Israelievitch for Music She Wrote: A Tribute to Canadian Women Composers. She performed piano concerti by two Canadian women composers: Piano Concerto No. 3 for piano and strings by Heather Schmidt; and Divertimento for Piano and Strings by Violet Archer (1913-2000).
As well, the Koffler Chamber Orchestra also performed two orchestral works: Webster’s Spin by Ann Southam (1937-2010), and A Prayer by Larysa Kuzmenko.
Christina Petrowska Quilico has been connected with the music of all four composers. She gave the North American premiere of the Archer concerto in the 1980s. Heather Schmidt wrote her second piano concerto for Petrowska Quilico. It was Petrowska Quilico’s CD performances of piano concerti by Schmidt and Kuzmenko, as well as her CD of Southam’s Glass Houses that garnered JUNO nominations for all 3 composers.
The concert was the first in the 2013-14 season of the Koffler Chamber Orchestra. The Koffler Chamber Orchestra is the only one of its kind in Toronto, comprising some of the city’s best-regarded professional musicians, who perform with community members and music students under the direction of acclaimed violinist and former TSO Concertmaster Jacques Israelievitch.
VIOLET ARCHER
Violet Louise Archer (April 24, 1913 – February 21, 2000) was a Canadian composer, teacher, pianist, organist, & percussionist.
In 1983, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Archer for more information.
CHRISTINA PETROWSKA QUILICO
http://PetrowskaQuilico.com
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Hailed by the New York Times at 14 for her “promethean talent” after making her orchestral debut along with Murray Perahia, Christina Petrowska Quilico has appeared at Carnegie, Alice Tully & Merkin Halls. She has also been soloist with the Toronto, Winnipeg, Vancouver & Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestras, Kindred Spirits Orchestra and the National Arts Centre Orchestra, as well as with orchestras in the U.S. and Canada, Taiwan and Greece; and with leading Canadian smaller ensembles.
Juilliard-trained, she studied in Europe with famed composers, and has long been one of Canada’s leading interpreters of new music – premiering 16 piano concerti and recording numerous contemporary works – four earning JUNO Awards nominations – as well as standard repertoire. Among her 30-some recorded titles are eight piano concerti.
In 2014, Petrowska Quilico toured Canada’s East Coast, playing the music of Ann Southam for Toronto Dance Theatre’s acclaimed production, Rivers; performs Visions, the music of Constantine Caravassilis (released in 2013 on Centrediscs); released a new two-CD set, Tangos Brasileiros, on the Marquis label (MAR 81519); and a further CD, Ann Southam’s Glass Houses Vol. 2, comple
