Mr. Petric’s 42 CD titles on 17 international labels and 97 state radio recordings are an organic reflection of his holistic curations in a contemporary concert hall. A repeat laureate of Prix Opus his Orbiting Garden on the Centrediscs label was JUNO nominated and cited in Gramophone as “a dizzying, elaborate and impressively played recital.” Mr Petric's recent collaborative album Heretic Threads (McDonald, Lutek) of re-imagined keyboard works by Haydn merited a citation in California’s Future of Music substack with artists John Zorn and Pat Metheny. His recordings have been broadcast on HNK Japan, BBCRadio3, TV5, PBS, and the European Broadcast Union and aired as special features by the CBC in 1986, 1996, 2019, 2021, and Société Radio Canada in 2002 and 2004.
Described as a “legendary collaborator” by the Canadian Music Centre, Mr. Petric was the first instrumentalist recipient of the CMC's Friend of Canadian Music Award. A passionate voice for new creation, he gave eight world premieres in one evening for the Societe de Musique Contemporaine de Quebec at Montreal's UQUAM Theatre in 2018. His curatorial initiative of 360 commissioned works has been compared to the artistic stewardship of the Kronos Quartet and the London Sinfonietta.
Mr. Petric has commissioned Pauline Oliveros, Micheline Roi and Norma Beecroft, and a second generation of works from Jocelyn Morlock, Janika Vandervelde, Barbara Assiginaak and Linda Bouchard. His 2002 release of the CD Euphonia, devoted entirely to the work of women composers spawned essays and research initiatives by a generation of emerging women accordionists. Mr. Petric's collaborations with a third generation of women composers include Abigail Richardson-Schulte, Bekah Simms, Amy Brandon, Julia Mermelstein, Kathryn Knowles, and Emilie LeBel.