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The highly regarded Brazilian-American piano virtuoso, Sergio R. Gallo will present a recital on June 10th, 2025 in which David Jaeger’s Song Without Words no. 5, based on a poem by David Cameron (I Can’t Help It) will receive its world premiere. Sergio Gallo is the winner of concerto competitions of the Sao Paulo Symphony … Read more
On March 30th, 2025, Canadian soprano Katherine Whyte gave the World Premiere of an unaccompanied song composed by David Jaeger, titled Awake Asleep, a setting of a poem by David Cameron. Her recital took place at the Hamilton Conservatory of the Arts. Katherine Whyte has been praised for her “keen artistic sensibility” (Opera Today) and … Read more
The premiere took place in Tortosa, Spain, located near Barcelona, on Saturday, April 5th. The work consists of four movements based on melodies created setting the poetry of David Cameron. The movements are individually titled, 1. Sometimes the Summer, 2. For Winter, 3. A Blessing and 4. Gifts. The Swan Ensemble will also come to Ontario in June. They will give … Read more
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sämtliche Sonaten und Variationen für Klavier und Violine; Christina Petrowska Quilico, Klavier, Jacques Israelievitch, Violine; # Navona NV6697; Aufnahme 11.2014 + 02.-03.2015, Veröffentlichung 21.02.2025 (404′) – Rezension von Uwe Krusch ** (For English please scroll down) Fast ein Jahrzehnt nach dem Tod von Jacques Israelievitch, der als jüngster stellvertretender Konzertmeister in Chicago … Read more
More Rivers, the seven-movement solo piano suite composed by Frank Horvat and performed by its commissioner Christina Petrowska Quilico, is many things. It’s a work, first of all, its creator dedicated to the spirit of Canadian composer Ann Southam and her seminal Rivers; by his own admission, the work she did in the field of minimalist … Read more
Veda Hingert-McDonald (violin) and Marlena Pellegrino (viola) performed at Arraymusic in Toronto on November 30th, 2024, where they featured world premieres by Michael Dudley, Margin Zheng, Marlena Pellegrino, Veda Hingert-McDonald and David Jaeger. David composed his Rilke Duo no. 1 especially for this recital, based on poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke (from his Sonnets to Orpheus)
On Wednesday, November 6th, 2024, The Don Wright Faculty of Music at Western University presented an evening of music performed by guest artist pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico from her new album Games of the Night Wind. The performance included works by David Jaeger, Tōru Takemitsu, Alexandre Tansman, and Henryk Górecki. Games of the Night Wind … Read more
The celebrated Canadian pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico has collaborated with composer and producer David Jaeger on a number of recordings over many decades. Games of the Night Wind is their third on the Navona Records imprint alone. The devotion of the pianist to the composer’s music is, predictably, personal. It speaks of long acquaintance with … Read more
Two titans of the Canadian music scene, composer David Jaeger and pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico, come together on Games of the Night Wind. Enhancing the appeal of their collaboration, the album intersperses twentieth-century solo piano works by Toru Takemitsu, Alexandre Tansman, and Henryk Górecki in amongst the dozen nocturnes by Jaeger. Arriving after last year’s Chamber Music … Read more
On May 26, 2024, pianist Jialiang Zhu performed in a solo piano recital Dialogues featuring piano music written by an array of fantastic contemporary composers – David Jaeger, Kathryn Knowles, Anita Pari, Qiuyue Jin, Edward Enman – along with “Benediction de Dieu dans la Solitude” by Franz Liszt. Each piece of the program is a … Read more