CHRISTINA PETROWSKA QUILICO

BM, MS (Juilliard)
Professor: Performance and Musicology
Department of Music, York University

cquilico@yorku.ca

Christina Petrowska Quilico is an internationally known pianist and recording artist. She studied piano with Rosina Lhevinne in New York, musicology at the Sorbonne in Paris, and composition with Gyorgy Ligeti and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Germany, and has devoted her career to bridging the gap between traditional and contemporary classical keyboard music. A champion of the contemporary repertoire and of Canadian music, she has premiered more than one hundred works - many writtten especially for her - by leading North American and European composers.

Professor Petrowska Quilico has appeared in solo recital and with orchestra on major concert stages and at festivals throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East, Greece and Taiwan, and is heard frequently in radio and television broadcasts. Her extensive discography encompasses classical repertoire, 20th and 21st-century masterworks and new compositions, and includes several recordings on the York Fine Arts label. Her most recent CD releases are Ann Southam's complete "Rivers" suite for solo piano for the Canadian Music Centre's Canadian Composer Portraits series on Centrediscs (CMCCD 10505); Eclipse, featuring compositions by York music professor David Mott (Centrediscs CMCCD 12707); and Ings (2008), a two-CD compilation of performances recorded by and broadcast on CBC Radio during the past few years, showcasing works by Canadian and international composers.

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