Feb 1 (Thursday)
12:00 p.m. | Walter Hall
Free Admission
GUEST PERFORMER
Violin: Jeremy Bell
Violin: Jerzy Kapłanek
Viola: Christine Vlajk
Cello: Katie Schlaikjer
Accordion: Joseph Petric
Program
Lament in The Trampled Garden
Marjan Mozetich
String Quartet No. 3
Norbert Palej
Bloom
Abigail Richardson
Joseph Petric Biography
Joseph Petric made his official debut at London’s St. Johns Smith Square in 1992 to critical acclaim in the London Independent. He has appeared as guest soloist at the Berlin Philharmonic, Wigmore Hall, the Tel Aviv Opera, Seiji Ozawa Hall, IRCAM, SMCQ and Bunkai Kaikan. Composer, author, artistic director and theorist, his diverse chamber collaborations include free improvisations, interdisciplinary theatre, Baroque duo programs with violoncello da spalla and digital electroacoustic programs.
Petric’s decades-long collaborations in historical performance with Colin Tilney and Boyd McDonald inform his opus. His discography of 37 CDs on 17 labels includes Peter Paul Koprowski’s Accordion Concerto with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (CBC5000Series), and 51 solo, chamber, concerto and video recordings for North American and European Broadcast Union partners. His 360 commissions (including 20 concertos) are unmatched in the history of the accordion. His research titles published by Germany’s Augemus Press reclaimed historical perspectives ignored by contemporary accordion hegemony. Petric has collaborated with Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, Howard Skempton, Linda C. Smith and Witold Lutoslawski among others. He is visiting professor at the Université de Montréal Faculté de Musique graduate performance department. For more information visit www.josephpetric.com and Joseph Petric-Wikipedia.
Penderecki String Quartet Biography
The Penderecki String Quartet, approaching the third decade of an extraordinary career, has become one of the most celebrated chamber ensembles of their generation. These four musicians from Poland, Canada, and the USA bring their varied yet collective experience to create performances that demonstrate their “remarkable range of technical excellence and emotional sweep” (Toronto, Globe and Mail). Their recent schedule has included concerts in New York (Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall), Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Los Angeles (REDCAT at Disney Hall), St. Petersburg, Paris, Prague, Berlin, Rome, Belgrade, Zagreb, Atlanta, as well as appearances at international festivals in Poland, Lithuania, Italy, Venezuela, Brazil, and China. The PSQ champions music of our time, performing a wide range of repertoire from Haydn to Zappa as well as premiering over 100 new works to date. Described by Fanfare Magazine as “an ensemble of formidable power and keen musical sensitivity”, the PSQ’s diverse discography includes the chamber music of Brahms and Shostakovich (Eclectra and Marquis labels) and their recently released Bartok cycle. They enter their 20th year as Quartet-in-Residence at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.