Christina & Louis Quilico Awards February 18, 5:30 PM at the Canadian Opera Company

February 18th; 5:30pm - The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts: Richard Bradshaw amphitheatre

Canadian Opera Company 145 Queen St W · (416) 363-6671 The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts: Richard Bradshaw amphitheatre

Vocal Series

In this special presentation, artists of the COC Ensemble Studio compete in The Christina and Louis Quilico Awards.

Each artist will perform an aria of their own choosing and a second aria will be selected by the panel of judges. Awards will be presented at the end of the evening.

Admission is free

Games of the Night Wind Recital at the Canadian Opera Company, Richard Bradshaw Concert Hall

October 16th; 12:00pm - COC Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Richard Bradshaw Concert Space

145 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario

Free Concert Series at the COC (Canadian Opera Company) Richard Bradshaw Concert Space

Games of the Night Wind

Christina Petrowska Quilico, piano

Wednesday, October 16 at 12 p.m.

Described by the Oskar Morawetz Award jurors as a “legend” of Canadian musicians, pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico joins lauded composer and champion of new music David Jaeger on the album Games of the Night Wind.

Playing to the unfettered wildness of the night, this album premieres 12 of Jaeger’s original nocturnes, inspired by nocturnal poetry, along with six other 20th-century solo piano works by Toru Takemitsu, Alexandre Tansman and Henryk Mikolaj Görecki. This performance will be an elegant exploration for the night owl in us all.

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Admission is free

Games of the Night Wind Recital at Western U., London, Ontario

November 6th; 8:00pm - Western University - von Kuster Hall Music Building London, Ontario N6A 3K7

Western University - von Kuster Hall Music Building London, Ontario N6A 3K7

• • The Don Wright Faculty of Music at Western University invites you for an evening of music performed by guest artist pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico from her new album Games of the Night Wind. The performance will include works by David Jaeger, Toru Takemitsu, Alexandre Tansman, and Henryk Górecki.
  • Supported by Music Undergraduate Gift Fund and The Canadian Music Centre
  • All are welcome to attend – No RSVP required. This is a free event and end times are approximate.

More Rivers at Sound Symposium

July 22nd; 8:00pm - DF Cook Hall, Memorial University

Burtons Pond Rd, St. John's, NL, A1C 5S7

It is a tremendous honour to be commissioned by Christina to compose More Rivers. To work with such a stellar performer and the person who worked with Ann Southam directly, to bring to life the original Rivers, means the world to me. Many thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts for funding the commission. I’m excited that Christina will present the world premiere performance of More Rivers at Sound Symposium XXI in St. John’s Newfoundland this July and I am grateful to have been invited to attend. Christina’s album recording of More Rivers will be released later this year or next year. Stay tuned to my social media channels, my blog posts and my e-newsletter for updates on these two fronts. Christina and I share a passion for the environment. More Rivers is constructed with overlapping looping textures evoking the flow of water. Water is intrinsic to life. As living beings on this planet, it is one of our most important resources that requires our full respect and protection. For me, the flow of water also conveys a spiritual sentiment. Being immersed within it or just in its presence provides a healing meditative calm. More Rivers is inspired by these two sentiments. My hope is that listeners of this collection will share these two visions, in varying states of consciousness, as they immerse themselves in the wall of sound emanating from the piano.