Ann Southam and Christina Petrowska Quilico's "Nature in Music"

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Christina Petrowska Quilico, C.M., OOnt, FRSC has won fans internationally for her live performances and 60-plus recordings that range from Mozart to contemporary concertos and solo, as well as chamber music. Reviews describe her as a “piano wizard” (Take Effect reviews) and “the towering Canadian piano virtuoso” Wholenote Magazine), and praise her “commanding pianism” (American Record Guide), “intelligent program” (Gramophone), and her “ability to leave a permanent impression on the listener’s soul” (Sonograma Magazine, Barcelona). “An extraordinary talent with phenomenal ability….dazzling virtuosity”
(The New York Times)
The 2020s have seen Christina honored many times over – the Order of Canada, Order of Ontario –induction into the Royal Society of Canada. Her “astonishing contribution to musical life in Canada”, particularly her teaching and advocacy of Canadian and women composers, earned her the Oskar Morawetz Prize in 2023, with the jury asserting, “She is legend.” The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation named” her one of “Canada’s 25 best classical pianists” and inducted her into CBC’s “In Concert Hall of Fame”. Four of her 50 plus CDs have earned JUNO Awards nominations. Solo concerts and performances of 53 concertos with orchestra have taken her across the U.S. and Canada, as well as to Taiwan, the Middle East, France, England, Germany, Greece.
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Ann Southam
Composer Ann Southam was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1937 but lived most of her life in Toronto. After completing musical studies at the University of Toronto and the Royal Conservatory of Music in the early 1960’s she began a teaching and composing career that included a long and productive association with modern dance. She created music for some of Canada’s major modern dance companies and choreographers, including the Toronto Dance Theatre, Danny Grossman, Dancemakers, Rachel Browne and Terrill Maguire. Simultaneously, she was an instructor in electronic music at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and participated in many “composer-in-the-classroom” programs in elementary and high schools.
While a great deal of her work was electroacoustic music on tape, in her later years she became increasingly interested in composing music for acoustic instruments. The piano being her favourite, she worked closely with Christina Petrowska Quilico for 30 years , who has recorded Southam’s piano music on the 3 CD set Rivers (Canadian Composer Portraits), 2 CD set Pond Life, 2 CD set Glass Houses and Soundspinning and individual pieces on Northern Sirens, Mystic Streams, and other compilation discs. Quilico’s recording of Glass House no. 5 earned her a Juno nomination for Best Classical Composition in 2012. She was a member of the Canadian Music Centre and the Canadian League of Composers, and a founding member of the Association of Canadian Women Composers. She was honoured with the Order of Canada, and with the 2001 Friends of Canadian Music Award.

The love for nature and the environment shared by pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico and composer Ann Southam resulted in multiple CDs reflecting nature, notably the cycles Rivers, Pond Life and Glass Houses, and Soundspinning. The proceeds from the Pond Life CD launch went to the David Suzuki Foundation, whose namesake wrote, “I have always found it remarkable that some of the first people to lend their support to causes like social justice, peace and the environment have been musicians.... music has a way of cutting through words and barriers to penetrate straight to our hearts. Thank you, Ann and Christina, for using your talents to lift our spirits and touch our souls.” David Suzuki