As a musicologist, post-critical theorist and historian Mr. Petric offers insightful analysis and perspectives of an embodied accordion art that contribute to the vital artistic conversations they are meant to inspire.
His publication The Concert Accordion - Contemporary Perspectives (2017) articulates artistic alternatives to the standard orthodoxies beginning with his signal recovery of Giovanni Gagliardi's 1911 treatise Manualetto del Fisharmonicista, a work ignored for 110 years. "A towering achievement and a model of scholarship..." (Goldman) the work in the form of a simulacrum includes forgotten memory chains, treatises, correspondance, photographs, the work and careers of more than 60 artists, and the unprecedented pattern archeology of thirty-two unknown designs and patents of instruments from Milan, Bolzano, Camerano, Paris, Trossingne, Philadelphia, Manhattan and Chicago, among others 1905-1930.
A nuanced post-critical treatise of an embodied art complementary to Giovanni Gagliardi's 1911 Manualetto del Fisharmonicista, Petric's Manifesto (2022) "...brilliantly written and theoretically astute..." (Hutcheon) theorizes an interpretive art tested in embodied performance with audiences in the international concert hall.
Mr. Petric's Accordion Dialogues (2025) and the Poetics of an Interpretive Art offers thoughtful analyses and fresh pathways to the concert art of the implicit for young and emerging artists in a post-critical 20th century concert hall referencing the ideals of Ceccheti, Arendt, Harnoncourt, Dylan, Bakhtin and Hugo Noth.
Future publications are pending. All are available exclusively from www.augemus.de .