World Premieres: Suite for Violin and Piano & Caprice no. 1 for Solo Violin

On January 15th, 2026, at the Canadian Music Centre in Toronto, there was a performance of new works for violin and piano, featuring CMC Artists in Residence, David Jaeger, C.M. (composer), Rea Beaumont (piano) and Christopher Verrette (violin). Two recent works by Jaeger received their world premieres: Suite for Violin and Piano and Caprice no. … Read more

Performance: Night Music

The U of T New Music Festival’s Prize Winners Concert will take place on January 31, 2026 at Walter Hall, University of Toronto at 2:00PM. This is a concert focusing on U of T composers and their achievements. The program includes a performance of David Jaeger’s Night Music for clarinet, viola, and piano featuring performers … Read more

World Premiere: Songs Without Words

The Scottish poet, David Cameron, with whom I have collaborated often, made the observation that the six female characters mentioned in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land seemed, in his view, to be rather narrowly defined. Cameron chose to write six poems in which he expanded on these characters, giving them deeper, more fully-formed images. The six Cameron poems … Read more

Jacques Israelievitch/Christina Petrowska Quilico

Listen to Mozart Complete Sonatas & Variations For Piano & Violin Navona, 2025 9/10 The pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico and violinist Jacques Israelievitch pays tribute to Israelievitch 10 years after his death with these works that were finished just months before he passed away. “Violin Sonata No. 28 in E-Flat Major, K. 380” leads with … Read more

Music and conversation in Toronto

On May 13, clarinettist Ann Murdocca presented her graduate recital at the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Mazzoleni Hall, featuring the world premieres of Coeur à Coeur , by Alice Ping-Yee Ho, alongside David Jaeger’s admirable Diptych – Lament and Defiance, both works for clarinet and piano. It’s quite unusual for a graduate recital to offer … Read more

World Premiere: Song Without Words no. 5

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

World Premiere: Awake Asleep

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

World Premiere: A Little Swan Suite

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

Frisch gebliebene Einspielung der Mozart Violinsonaten 

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

Frank Horvat: More Rivers

More Rivers cd cover

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