A fluid and unpredictable counterpoint reflects the rushing cascades, luxuriant eddies, and meditative stillness in the music, which alternates between large kinetic strokes and delicately detailed duets. The repeating and changing note patterns for each hand give the fingers no breaks. Each of the three sets of Rivers employs a different minimalist process, as well as fast, medium and slow tempi. The continuous flow of notes and sequences is suggestive of rivers – hence the title.

Christina Petrowska Quilico and Ann Southam shared a love for nature and the environment, which resulted in multiple CDs reflecting nature, such as Rivers, Pond Life, Glass Houses and Soundspinning.
CHRISTINA PETROWSKA QUILICO, C.M., FRSC was appointed to the Order of Canada for her celebrated career as a classical and contemporary pianist, and for championing Canadian music. She was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada and has received the Friends of Canadian Music Award from the Canadian Music Centre and Canadian League of Composers, selected as one of the CMC’s Ambassadors of Canadian music and recently awarded 2 York University Research Awards. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation named her one of “20 Can’t-Miss Classical Pianists” one of “Canada’s 25 best classical pianists” and inducted her into CBC’s “In Concert Hall of Fame”. Four of her 50 plus CDs have earned JUNO Awards nominations including Glass Houses Revisited by Ann Southam. Solo concerts and performances 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. She has performed 53 piano concertos on CDs and with orchestras.
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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