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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