Recordings and Commissions

Recordings 

Mr Petric's prolific discography includes 204 recorded works on 42 CD titles and 59 international state radio recordings to date. A repeat laureate of Quebec's Prix Opus, the OAC Hunter Recording Prize his JUNO nominated Orbiting Garden was cited as “a dizzying, elaborate and impressively played recital.” (Gramophone). His explorations of Radical Haydn was critically acclaimed in California Substack alongside Pat Metheny and John Zorn. Broadcast regularly by HNK Japan, BBCRadio3, TV5, PBS, and most European Broadcast Union partners, Mr Petric was featured by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 1986, 1996, 2019, 2021, Société Radio Canada in 2002 and 2004, and BBCRadio3 1994, 1998 and 2022.  

 

Commissions

A champion of Canadian composers Mr. Petric was the first instrumentalist laureate of the Canadian Music Center's Friend of Canadian Music Award. His passion for new creation with 360 commissioned works includes eight world premieres of Quebecois composers in one night for the Societe de Musique Contemporaine de Quebec  and the consistent disemination of Canadian works in the international concert hall on four continents. Commission highlights include Marjan Mozetich's iconic Dance of the Blind on a CBC commission, 20 concertos, six accordion quintets on commission with the Penderecki Quartet, 43 electroacoustic works for solo accordion,Claude Vivier's iconic Pulau dewata and works by Pauline Oliveros, David Jaeger, Larry Lake, Witold Lutowslawski, Janika Vandervelde, Norma Beecroft, Norbert Palej, David Mott, Jocelyn Morlock, Julia Mermelstein, John Rea, Abigail Richardson-Schulte, alcides lanza and Bekah Simms among others.