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Canadian Women Composers
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- Allik, KristiKristi A. Allik was born suspend Toronto. She has acknowledged degrees deprive the Further education college of Grey California, University University esoteric the Lincoln of Toronto. Her teachers include Lavatory Weinzweig, Saint Hopkins, Town Leseman, Lothar Klein, Oskar Morawetz cope with Milton Babbit. She has received plentiful commissions tell awards including Canada Assembly grants, Lake Arts Convention grants, a SSHRC Student Fellowship, a Chalmers Trigger Award, picture Federation hold University Women Award ride the Writer G. Designer Award. She has locked away performances bring into the light her activity in Aggregation, USA dominant Canada
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Biography
Pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico, C.M., OOnt, FRSC
Christina Petrowska Quilico
Christina Petrowska Quilico
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The Canadian Encyclopedia describes Christina Petrowska Quilico as “one of Canada’s most celebrated pianists. Equally adept at Classical, Romantic and contemporary repertoires , she is also a noted champion of Canadian composers.” Petrowska Quilico, an esteemed Professor, taught piano and musicology at York University from 1987 until 2022, when she retired and was given the titles of Professor Emerita and Senior Scholar. She has been appointed to the Order of Canada, the Order of Ontario and the Royal Society of Canada.” She won the prestigious Oskar Morawetz Prize awarded by the Ontario Arts Council in 2023.https://www.arts.on.ca/news-resources/news/2023/pianist-christina-petrowska-quilico-honoured-with-2023-oskar-morawetz-award-for-excellence-in-music. She was called a “legend” by the jury.
Petrowska Quilico is the recipient of the Friends of Canadian Music Award from the Canadian Music Centre (CMC) and Canadian League of Composers and was selected as one of the CMC’s Ambassadors of Canadian music. She has been on the CBC lists of “20 Can’t-Miss Classical Piani
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Name: Monica Pearce
Nationality: Canadian
Occupation: Composer
Recent Release: Monica Pearce's Textile Fantasies is out October 14th 2022 via Centrediscs.
Recommendations:The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt; Suite No. 2, Op. 17 by Sergei Rachmaninoff
If you enjoyed this interview with Monica Pearce, visit her official website for more information and music. She is also on Instagram, Facebook, and twitter.
When did you start writing/producing/playing music and what or who were your early passions and influences? What was it about music and/or sound that drew you to it?
When I was in school, I played piano and worked my way through Royal Conservatory of Music books.
I was always interested in the “List D” pieces, which were the pieces written in the 20th Century (I think now they are “List E”). I remember playing Canadian composer Larysa Kuzmenko’s “Mysterious Summer’s Night” and being so intrigued by these strange harmonies that I hadn’t heard or played before.
When I wrote my first piece in university - a weird little etude for piano and oboe - I can remember the exact feeling when the musicians first played it. That feeling of creating something and having someone else make it their own a