CHRISTINA PETROWSKA QUILICO
Discography

Tango Gems, The Brazilian Way soon to be released by Welspringe Productions.

Vocal Gems, released by Welspringe Productions in March, 2003. Live concert performance in New York with the late baritone Louis Quilico.

Romantic Gems was released by Welspringe Productions in February 2002. It will be the first in a series of "Gems".

Just released by Centrediscs(Canadian Music Centre CMCCD 7201), a collections of works by Chris Paul Harman performed by Christina Petrowska Quilico among others.

Northern Sirens (York Fine Arts YFA00999
a collection of works by Canadian female composers Ann Southam, Alexina Louie, Larysa Kuzmenko, Heather Schmidt and Diana McIntosh.

Chants Français et Russes (WELCD002)

Debussy (Welspringe WELCD003)

Mystic Streams (Welspringe WELCD001)

Chopin & Liszt (Welspringe WLLCD004)

Two of A Kind (York Fine Arts 00195)

Review of Northern Sirens

Monday Magazine
November 25 – December 1, 1999
By Naomi Lester

New Canadian music - with some bite to it

Like Sundogs, this recording features a variety of composers and styles. The unifying element here is that they are all short piano pieces written by Canadian women composers and all played with easy expertise by Christina Petrowska. There are two pieces by Ann Southam, "Glass Houses" and "Rivers", written in a hypnotic minimalist vein. Larysa Kuzmenko's pieces, "Diabolic Dance" and "In Memoriam", are full of ten-sion and virtuosity, dark and biting in overall tone.

Also included are Diana Mcintosh's spacious "Worlds Apart" and Heather Schmidt's "Solus", which ranges from introspective to burst-ing with percussive immediacy - then trails away again to querying, coruscating upper notes. Alexina Louie's "Music for Piano", a five-piece suite, strikes a wonderful balance between an impressionistic, roman-tic quality and a muscular insistence in the melodies that does credit to Petrowska's command of touch. These are all pieces written by and for top-notch pianists, and take full advantage of the vast range of possibilities offered by the instrument.

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