Cited as '...arguably the most important historian in his field...' (PANM360 Cardin), Mr Petric's titles explore the accordion with concert hall warrant as the most subversive interpretive medium of musical translation in a postmodern Classical art.
His first book The Concert Accordion - Contemporary Perspectives (2017,350p) documents the first ever confirmation of the origins of the concert accordion, the recovery of Giovanni Gagliardi’s forgotten 1911 treatise Manualetto del Fisharmonicista for an international lingua angla, and 54 unknown instruments and builders 1890-1940. Cited by ethnomusicologist Jonathan Goldman as '...a towering achievement and a model of scholarship...' with treatises, interpreters, correspondance, photographs and hermeneutic connections delivered with ethical documentation.
Petric's Manifesto - A Holistic Accordion (2022,54p) is well in tune with the poetic sensibility of art 'beyond self' that audiences seek in today's convivial concert hall. The book explores perspectives applicable to other instruments and other performance traditions '...the tone of openness and inclusivity contrasting sharply with narrowness of view and restricted (reductivist) perspectives...and (Petric's) notion of recovery resides at the heart of (his) thinking and practice, recognizing that recovery exists within and upon terrains not too far away,.' (John Rea)
Accordion Dialogues (2025,135p) is a collection of 22 essays in the form of conversations with masters Enrico Ceccheti, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Hugo Noth and Colin Tilney. Adaptation theorist Linda Hutcheon: '..Accordion Dialogues (is) a work of inclusive pluralism and respectful ironic engagement with the past...with details of its players, varied repertoire and the ideological and academic agendas that have affected the fate of what has become the greatest postmodernly subversive, alternative instrument of musical adaptation'..
Mr Petric is currently writing a monograph begun in early 2025, publication pending 2028 (600 p).
He is published exclusively by Augemus Press, Essen, Germany, available here www.augemus.de .