Recordings and Commissions

Recordings 

Mr. Petric’s 42 CD titles on 17 international labels reflect his innovative and inclusive programing for audiences. A repeat laureate of Quebec's Prix Opus and the OAC Hunter Recording Prize, his CD Orbiting Garden on the Centrediscs label was JUNO nominated in Canada and cited in London's Gramophone as “a dizzying, elaborate and impressively played recital.” His recording of the Koprowski Accordion Concerto with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra on the CBC5000 label was noted as "...a concerto in the grand manner... Petric plays with persuasiveness and conviction..." (American Record Guide).  Mr Petric's album Heretic Threads was cited for special mention in California’s Future of Music substack alongside John Zorn and Pat Metheny, and his 97 recordings of solo, chamber and electroacoustic works for international state radio systems have been broadcast by HNK Japan, BBCRadio3, TV5, PBS, and most European Broadcast Union partners. Petric's work has been aired on special features by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 1986, 1996, 2019, 2021, Société Radio Canada in 2002 and 2004, and BBCRadio3 1994, 1998 and 2022.

 

Commissions

Mr. Petric's quest for building new audiences in collaboration with composers equally passionate about connection in the concert hall is the defining ethos of his career. Described as a “legendary collaborator” by his Canadian peers, he was the first instrumentalist laureate of the Canadian Music Center's Friend of Canadian Music Award. His strategic stewardship of 360 commissions was conceived from the beginning as a forensic enhancement to the canon and the concert hall in the agora where he was known ot present as many as eight world premieres in one night for the Societe de Musique Contemporaine de Quebec 2018, and three concertos in one night with the Victoria Symphony Orchestra 2010. Mr. Petric has commissioned and premiered works by Pauline Oliveros, David Jaeger, Witold Lutowslawski, Linda C. Smith, Robert May, Brian Cherney, Normand Forget, Bengt Hambraeus, Norma Beecroft, Peter Hatch, John Rea, Norbert Palej, Yves Daoust, Christos Hatzis, Larry Lake, Bob Pritchard, Micheline Roi, alcides lanza, Jocelyn Morlock, Julia Mermelstein, Bekah Simms, Emilie Lebel and concertos by Peter Paul Koprowski, Norman Symonds, Omar Daniel, Howard Skempton, Brian Current, Gunnar Valkare and Denis Gougeon among others.