Mr. Petric’s 42 CD titles on 17 international labels and 97 state radio recordings are an array of stylistic traversals programed and tested in situ with his audiences in the contemporary concert hall. His JUNO nominated album Orbiting Garden on the Centrediscs label was 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, Pat Metheny and Stephen Hough, and 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.
Acknowledged 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 forensic advocate for new creation, he gave eight world premieres in one evening for Montreal's Societe de Musique Contemporaine de Quebec in 2018. His 360 commissioned works are a curatorial initiative that has been compared to the artistic stewardship of the Kronos Quartet and the London Sinfonietta.
A historic advocate for women composers, Mr. Petric has commissioned Pauline Oliveros, Micheline Roi, Sylvaine Martin and Norma Beecroft, and a second generation of works from Jocelyn Morlock, Janika Vandervelde, Barbara Assiginaak, Linda Bouchard and Linda C. Smith. 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.