"Rivers" are close to my heart because they deal with nature and our environment.
CHRISTINA PETROWSKA QUILICO, C.M., OOnt, FRSC
The Canadian Encyclopedia calls Christina Petrowska Quilico “one of Canada’s most celebrated pianists. Equally adept at Classical, Romantic and Contemporary repertoires...she is also a noted champion of Canadian composers.”
She was appointed to the Order of Canada “for her celebrated career as a classical and contemporary pianist, and for championing Canadian music” and to the Order of Ontario “for opening the ears of music lovers through her performances and recordings, her teaching at York University and her establishment of The Christina and Louis Quilico Award at the Ontario Arts Foundation and Canadian Opera Company.” Other recent honours include being inducted into the Royal Society of Canada, “the country’s highest honour an individual can achieve in the Arts, Social Sciences and Sciences.” She has received the Friends of Canadian Music Award from the Canadian Music Centre and Canadian League of Composers, and was selected as one of the CMC’s Ambassadors of Canadian Music. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation named her one of “20 Can’t-Miss Classical Pianists” and one of “Canada’s 25 best classical pianists” and inducted her into its “In Concert Hall of Fame”.
Four of her 50 plus CDs have earned JUNO Award nominations, including Glass Houses Revisited (Centrediscs) by Ann Southam, named one of the “30 Best Canadian classical recordings ever” by CBC Music, and also CDs featuring concertos with the Toronto Symphony, National Arts Centre, CBC Vancouver and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony orchestras (all on Centrediscs), and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.
Solo concerts and performances of 53 concertos with orchestra have taken her across the U.S. and Canada, as well as to Taiwan, the Middle East, France, England, Germany, Greece and Ukraine.
Her recent CDs on Navona/Parma) have landed on numerous 2021 best-of- lists in Canada and abroad. Vintage Americana was a winner in the classical category of the Global Music Awards and the “What a Performance” award from Art Music Lounge as one of the most outstanding recordings of the year. It was listed on CBC’s Canada’s top 21 Classical albums of 2021, Ludwig van Toronto’s 2021’s Lesser Known Gems (one of eight CDs), and The Piano Street Team’s Recommended New Piano Albums (one of five). The WholeNote wrote about “the towering Canadian piano virtuoso Christina Petrowska Quilico,” noting, “This absorbing display of musicianship leaves no doubt that she can interpret works from any compositional aesthetic with world-class execution.”
Christina Petrowska Quilico is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music in New York and has performed in Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and Merkin Halls, garnering such superlatives from the New York Times as “an extraordinary talent with phenomenal ability….dazzling virtuosity.”
www.christinapetrowskaquilico.com

Ann Southam bio
Composer Ann Southam was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1937 but lived most of her life in Toronto. After completing musical studies at the University of Toronto and the Royal Conservatory of Music in the early 1960’s she began a teaching and composing career that included a long and productive association with modern dance. She created music for some of Canada’s major modern dance companies and choreographers, including the Toronto Dance Theatre, Danny Grossman, Dancemakers, Rachel Browne and Terrill Maguire. Simultaneously, she was an instructor in electronic music at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and participated in many “composer-in-the-classroom” programs in elementary and high schools.
While a great deal of her work was electroacoustic music on tape, in her later years she became increasingly interested in composing music for acoustic instruments. The piano being her favourite, she worked closely with Christina Petrowska Quilico, who has recorded Southam’s piano music on the 3 CD set Rivers (Canadian Composer Portraits), 2 CD set Pond Life, 2 CD set Glass Houses and Soundspinning and individual pieces on Northern Sirens, Mystic Streams, and other compilation discs. Quilico’s recording of Glass House no. 5 earned her a Juno nomination for Best Classical Composition in 2012. She was a member of the Canadian Music Centre and the Canadian League of Composers, and a founding member of the Association of Canadian Women Composers. She was honoured with the Order of Canada, and with the 2001 Friends of Canadian Music Award.

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