A historian, musicologist and theorist Mr Petric's artistic and philosophical perspectives look beyond presentist orthodoxy.
His first book The Concert Accordion - Contemporary Perspectives (2017, 350 p.) respects memory with the first ever confirmation of the origins of the concert accordion, the recovery of Giovanni Gagliardi’s forgotten 1911 treatise Manualetto del Fisharmonicista, and 54 unknown instruments and builders 1890-1940. Cited as '...a towering achievement and a model of scholarship...' (Goldman), the book documents treatises, interpreters, correspondance, photographs and hermeneutic connections unprecedented in the literature.
Petric's post-critical theory in his Manifesto - A Holistic Accordion (2022, 54 p), cited as '..brilliantly written and theoretically astute' (Hutcheon), invites students to re-engage with their vision of a transcendent art beyond self.
His third book Accordion Dialogues - and the Poetics of an Interpretive Art (2025, 135 p) is a philosophical work , a collection of 22 essays in conversation with masters Enrico Ceccheti, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Hugo Noth and Colin Tilney among others that open pathways to constructive reconnection to embodied interpretation.
All titles are an organic outcome of Mr. Petric's warrant of the concert hall. His fourth book is pending.
He is published exclusively by Augemus Press, Essen, Germany, available here www.augemus.de .