Name Joseph Petric | Albums Orbiting Garden | |
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The classical now i joseph petric
Joseph Francis Petrič (born October 8, 1952) is a Canadian concert accordionist, musicologist, teacher, and author.
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- The classical now i joseph petric
- Exploration polar joseph petric guy few alain trudel
- Early life and education
- Musical career
- References
Exploration polar joseph petric guy few alain trudel
Early life and education
He was born in Guelph, Ontario and raised in Acton, to a family of the political diaspora that left Slovenija in 1945. Taken by his father to his first accordion lesson at age five, he studied with local teachers until 1968, when he enrolled at Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music. In 1975 he completed his Bachelor of Music at Queen’s University, Kingston. That same year, he moved to Toronto and completed his master's degree in Musicology in 1977. Influenced by the Toronto visit of Swiss accordionist Hugo Noth in 1975, Petric studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Trossingen in 1977.
He married in 1978.
Musical career
Petric began his professional career in several stages:
Throughout the 1980s, his artistic activity included commissioning, performing and recording, with invitations from Serge Garant and Montreal’s SMCQ ensemble, ACREQ, the string quartets Alcan and St. Germain, the NEM Ensemble, and Pentaèdre; he received invitations to the McGill, Domaine Forget, and Bic St. Fabien festivals. He was the artistic director of The Big Squeeze accordion festival in Toronto in 1991, as well as the Virtuosi Series for the CBC at the Glenn Gould Hall in 1993. In 1998, he turned his attention to the research of period performance practices and instrument building, with the assistance of a Canada Council Senior Artist’s Grant, working with period keyboard artists Colin Tilney and Boyd McDonald
In 2000, he became the artistic director for the Carte Blanche Series in Montreal for the Société Radio Canada, and Quebec City in 2003.
His postmodern approaches attracted the marketing support of four international management companies: MGAM in Toronto, NCCP in London, Sarah Turner Communications in Paris, and Columbia Artists in New York City; as well as financial support of the Koussevitsky Foundation, CBC, and the Canada Council for the Arts. He enjoyed special relationships with Bob Aitken’s New Music Concerts in Toronto, the Societe Contemporaine de Quebec in Montreal, the Canadian Electronic Ensemble, and composer Witold Lutoslawski. A steady stream of international tours followed, with up to 80 concerts a year, and international recordings for CBC, SRC, BBC Radio 3, and PBS (USA). His numerous collaborations include: the Petric-Forget Duo, Pentaèdre, Canada’s Penderecki Quartet, Duo Contempera, the Trio Diomira, Pauline Oliveros, and the ensembles Erosonic and Bellows and Brass.
By 2010, his postmodern discography comprised 32 CD titles.