鈥�91亚色 is delighted to see that professors Girard, Hyndman, Johnson, Petrowska Quilico and Heffernan have been recognized by the Royal Society of Canada,鈥� said Amir Asif, vice-president research and innovation. 鈥淭hese exceptional researchers embody our vision to enhance our impact on the social, economic, culture and overall well-being of the communities we serve.鈥�

Royal Society Fellows

Philip Girard
Osgoode Hall Law School

Philip Girard鈥檚 prize-winning work on the legal history of Canada has shaped the field and redefined its agenda for the 21st century. Tracing the roots of today鈥檚 legal pluralism to the historic encounter of two European empires with Indigenous peoples in northern North America, he stresses how this pluralism allowed Quebec civil law to flourish on a continent of common law and now creates space for the renaissance of Indigenous law.

Jennifer Hyndman
Centre for Refugee Studies
Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

Jennifer Hyndman studies geographies of forced migration, ethnography of the international refugee regime, feminist geopolitics, critical refugee studies and extended exile. Her research addresses violence in relation to diaspora and displacement among Tamils and other people on the move, international humanitarianism in war zones, as well as refugee and migrant inclusion in Canada.

Michele Johnson
Department of History
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

An international leader in Black history, Michele Johnson is esteemed for rigorous and methodologically innovative studies of cultural production and performance, race and racialization, gender relations and labour among persons of African descent in the Caribbean and Canada. Equally committed to networking and communicating with multiple audiences, Johnson has employed her global prominence to benefit students and scholars around the world, and to promote wider community engagement with Black history.

Christina Petrowska Quilico听颁.惭.
Department of Music
School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design

Appointed to the Order of Canada 鈥渇or her celebrated career as a classical and contemporary pianist and for championing Canadian music,鈥� Christina Petrowska Quilico, professor of musicology and piano performance at 91亚色, has opened the ears of students and audiences with numerous premieres of music of our time, featuring many women composers and repertoire ranging from baroque to the present in solos, chamber works, 45 concertos and on over 50 internationally acclaimed CDs.

RSC College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

Jane Heffernan
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Faculty of Science

Jane Heffernan is a recognized international leader in infectious disease modelling. Her Modelling Infection and Immunity Lab tackles important questions in mathematical epidemiology and in-host pathogen dynamics, using mathematical and computational modelling to ascertain key characteristics of pathogens, individual hosts, and populations that allow for disease spread and to determine public health and medical intervention strategies that will be needed to contain or eradicate an infectious disease.

These 91亚色 faculty are among 89 new Fellows who have been elected by their peers for their outstanding scholarly, scientific and artistic achievement, and 51 new members of the RSC College. Recognition by the RSC for career achievement is the highest honour an individual can achieve in the arts, social sciences and sciences. The RSC College consists of mid-career leaders who provide the RSC with a multigenerational capacity to help Canada and the world address major challenges and seize new opportunities, including those identified in emerging fields.

鈥淭his year, the Royal Society of Canada welcomes an outstanding cohort of artists, scholars and scientists, all of whom have excelled in their respective disciplines and are a real credit to Canada,鈥� says RSC President Jeremy McNeil.

On Friday, Nov. 19, the RSC will welcome the Class of 2021 new RSC Fellows and new members of the RSC College and present awards for outstanding research and scholarly achievement.

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The CD launch and recital will take place at 7:30pm, March 17, at the Glenn Gould Studio, CBC Building, 250 Front St. W. in Toronto.

Petrowska Quilico will perform recently revised work by the late composer Ann Southam (1937-2010). Glass Houses Revisited is being released by the on its Centrediscs label. The Liszt Anniversary Collection, on the Welspringe label, includes well-known pieces, operatic paraphrases and later works for the Liszt bicentennial. Both CDs were recorded at the Glenn Gould Studio and produced by David Jaeger.

Right: Christina Petrowska Quilico

Southam had revised the 15 pieces of the cycle for Petrowska Quilico, who then chose nine, which she edited and revised.聽鈥淭he score is made up of patterns, numbers and melodies, and I had to make sure they came out right.聽They are fiendishly difficult, especially at the tempo.聽You need to count each pattern.聽Each hand plays a different pattern with a different meter. Ann wrote how she wanted them to end, but I had to work things out to ensure the correct number of repetitions,鈥� says Petrowska Quilico.

Fiendishly difficult "etudes" is how she describes the nine selections that she and the composer chose from Southam鈥檚 1981 Glass Houses. She compares the cycle of fast pieces to the lightning-speed fingering of Liszt鈥檚 Transcendental Etudes and the complexity of Bach鈥檚 counterpoint, while containing 鈥渘o indications of dynamics, phrasing, fingering, pedalling, or other directions in the score.鈥�

Southam was a leading composer of minimalist music and a trailblazer amongst Canadian women composers. Glass Houses Revisited marks 鈥檚 third CD title devoted entirely to Southam鈥檚 music. The earlier two 鈥� the 2005 three-CD set Rivers and two-CD set Pond Life (2009) 鈥� were critically well received. She has also recorded Glass Houses No. 5 on her earlier CDs Ings, as well as other works by Southam on Northern Sirens, Virtuoso Piano Music of Our Own Time and Mystic Streams.

As for the 2011 Juno nomination, Larysa Kuzmenko's Piano Concerto, written for and performed by Petrowska Quilico on her 3 Concerti CD, has been nominated in the category. Petrowska Quilico performed it with the Toronto Symphony with Jukka Pekka Saraste conducting. This is her second Juno nomination; her first was for a performance of Glenn Buhr's piano concerto with the Winnipeg Symphony conducted by Bramwell Tovey. The Juno Awards will be announced from March 21 to 27, when the week will culminate in the live broadcast on CTV.

Tickets for the CD launch and recital cost $25 for adults and $20 for students and seniors, and are available from the or by calling 416-872-4255.

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, Petrowska Quilico鈥檚 23rd CD and her seventh on the Canadian Music Centre鈥檚 (CMC) Centrediscs label, features works for piano and orchestra by Canadian composers Alexina Louie, Larysa Kuzmenko and Violet Archer, all recorded live for broadcast by CBC Radio over the past two decades.

Known internationally as a leading interpreter of contemporary and Canadian music, Petrowska Quilico is also a longtime champion of the works of women composers. She devised her 3 Concerti project for a graduate course in Gender and Performance that she teaches at 91亚色.

Right: From left, Christina Petrowska Quilico, Mary Morrison Freedman and聽Constantine Caravassilis. Photo by Frank Delling.

鈥淚 wanted the students to hear the brilliance of Canadian women composers, especially in live performance,鈥� she said.聽鈥淭hanks to CBC producer David Jaeger, I had recordings of a number of performances where I had premiered concerti written by women. From these, we chose works that all feature a virtuoso piano part, but are very different in compositional style.鈥�

The CD presents Petrowska Quilico as piano soloist in Louie鈥檚 Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with the National Arts Centre Orchestra conducted by Alex Pauk; Archer鈥檚 Concerto No.1 for Piano and Orchestra with the CBC Vancouver Orchestra led by John Eliot Gardiner; and Kuzmenko鈥檚 Piano Concerto with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Jukka-Pekka Saraste.

The recording can be purchased online through the or via 鈥檚 Web site.

While 3 Concerti looks back to previously recorded live performances, Petrowska Quilico鈥檚 next release, a collaboration with Canadian composer Constantine Caravassilis, will be a two-CD set of all-new studio recordings of Caravassilis鈥� composition cycles for solo piano, Book of Fantasias and Book of Rhapsodies.

Technically demanding and hugely expressive, the works will put Petrowska Quilico鈥檚 virtuosic skill and experience to good use. 鈥淐hristina鈥檚 intent to record these works is a real honour for me,鈥� said Caravassilis. 鈥淚 have no doubt in my mind that this recording will be a stepping stone in my career.鈥�

Caravassilis was the winner of the 2009聽Karen Kieser Prize in Canadian Music awarded by the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music to a grad student in composition, and a triple gold medallist at the聽2006 Vorgos Foudoulis聽International Composition Competition in Volos, Greece. He has served as composer-in-residence for聽the University of Manitoba's聽Contemporary Opera Lab, Toronto鈥檚 Cantabile Chamber Singers, Denmark鈥檚 Open Strings Festival and the London Song Festival in the United Kingdom.

Petrowska Quilico and Caravassilis were selected as co-recipients of the first Harry Freedman Recording Award by a national jury assembled from leaders in the Canadian music community. The jury said: 鈥淲e were very impressed by the quality of the music of this outstanding young composer and by the fact that one of Canada's finest pianists and interpreters of new music had pledged herself to the proposed project.鈥�

Named in memory of the pioneering Canadian composer, the Harry Freedman Recording Award contributes towards the creative costs associated with making audio recordings of the music of Canadian composers. Currently valued at $1,500, it will be given every two years through the CMC.

Petrowska Quilico and Caravassilis received the award at a public presentation on April 27 at the Soundstreams Virtuoso Vibrations concert at Hugh鈥檚 Room in Toronto. Freedman鈥檚 widow, Mary Morrison Freedman, a distinguished singer, teacher and member of the Order of Canada, presented the award and congratulated both artists on stage.

This is not the first time Petrowska Quilico has been honoured by the CMC. She was among a select group of Canadian artists featured at the CMC鈥檚 50th anniversary celebration last fall at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, where she performed Glass Houses by Ann Southam. In 2007, she was presented with the CMC鈥檚 Friends of Canadian Music Award for her dedication to Canadian contemporary classical music as well as her unwavering support of this country鈥檚 composing community.

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