Joseph Petric
- January 5, 2024
- Musician
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Joseph Petric Biography
| Name | Joseph Petric |
| Birthday | Oct 8 |
| Birth Year | 1952 |
| Home Town | Guelph |
| Birth Country | Canada |
| Birth Sign | Libra |
Joseph Petric is one of the most popular and richest Musician who was born on October 8, 1952 in Guelph, Canada. The family was from Guelph, Ontario and raised in Acton in a family belonging to the political diaspora who quit Slovenia around 1945. His father took him to his first class on accordion at the age of five. He took lessons with local instructors till
- In 1968, he was enrolled the Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music. In 1975, he earned his Bachelor of Music degree at Queen’s University, Kingston. The following year, he relocated to Toronto and finished Master’s degrees in Musicology in 1977. The influence of his experience with the Toronto appearance to the home of Swiss accordionist Hugo Noth in 1975, Petric was a student at the Hochschule fur Musik in Trossingen in 1977.
Other noteworthy performances include: the first concert and record of Peter Paul’s Accordion Concerto performed with Toronto Symphony Orchestra Toronto Symphony Orchestra (1996); Berio Sequenza at Tanglewood’s Seiji Ozawa Hall, with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (2000) The sock-puppet opera, The Perfect Cake, composed by Alain Trudel; Linda Bouchard’s multi- disciplinary piece Murderous Little World with Bellows and Brass as well as The Hohenems Schubertiade with tenor Christoph Pregardien and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra’s Pentaedre as part of Normand Forget’s chamber rendition of The Winterreise(2009) The Israeli Opera Tel Aviv (2011) as well as the Berlin Philharmonic Series (2013).
By 2010 his postmodern discography numbered 32 CD titles. In 2013 he co- directed the first Canadian performance of the complete Berio Sequenze for the University of Toronto New Music Festival. He was honored by the Canadian recording industry with a JUNO nomination for Best Composition in 2003; Quebec’s Prix Opus for Best Concert in 2009; and a Prix Opus in 2011, for Best Recording. He was awarded the designation “Friend of Canadian Music” by the Canadian Music Centre in 2005, and the designation “Ambassador of Canadian Music” in a public ceremony at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre in 2009. In 2013, the IMC, UNESCO and the Confédération internationale des accordéonistes presented Petric with the Award of Merit, for outstanding lifetime contributions to the accordion.
His postmodern approaches attracted the marketing support of four international management companies: MGAM in Toronto, NCCP in London, Sarah Turner Communications in Paris, and Columbia Artists in New York City; as well as financial support of the Koussevitsky Foundation, CBC, and the Canada Council for the Arts. He enjoyed special relationships with Bob Aitken’s New Music Concerts in Toronto, the Societe Contemporaine de Quebec in Montreal, the Canadian Electronic Ensemble, and composer Witold Lutoslawski. A steady stream of international tours followed, with up to 80 concerts a year, and international recordings for CBC, SRC, BBC Radio 3, and PBS (USA). His numerous collaborations include: the Petric-Forget Duo, Pentaèdre, Canada’s Penderecki Quartet, Duo Contempera, the Trio Diomira, Pauline Oliveros, and the ensembles Erosonic and Bellows and Brass.
Through in the 80s and 90s, his creative work included performing, commissioning and recording, receiving invites to Serge Garant and Montreal’s SMCQ ensemble, ACREQ, the string quartets Alcan and St. Germain as well as The NEM Ensemble, and Pentaedre as well as invitations to attend the McGill, Domaine Forget, and Bic St. Festivals Fabien. The artistic director was The Big Squeeze accordion festival in Toronto in 1991, and also the Virtuosi Series of the CBC at the Glenn Gould Hall in 1993. In 1998 the year he focused his attention on researching traditional performance techniques and instrument construction with the aid of an Canada Council Senior Artist’s Grant in collaboration with period keyboardists Colin Tilney and Boyd McDonald
Joseph Petric Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Musician |
| House | Living in own house. |
Joseph Petric is one of the richest Musician from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joseph Petric 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Joseph Francis Petric (born October 8th 1952) is a Canadian concert accordionist musician, musicologist, teacher and author.
In the fall of 1979 Petric was able to make the Canadian first appearance with the Toronto Arraymusic Ensemble, and became the first accordionist to be awarded at the CBC National Radio Auditions, that launched his career on simultaneously his English as well as French radio stations of Canada. Petric began with his career abroad at Washington, D.C. at the Kennedy Centre in 1986 and in London at St John’s, Smith Square in 1992.
In 2000, he became the artistic director for the Carte Blanche Series in Montreal for the Société Radio Canada, and Quebec City in 2003.
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