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Petri, who began playing the recorder at the age of three, is noted for her virtuosity and versatility across a wide range of styles, from the baroque repertoire of the height of the instrument's popularity to contemporary works written particularly for her. She first played on Danish Radio at the age of five, and her debut performance as a soloist was at Copenhagen's Tivoli concert hall in ...
Michala Petri has performed more than 4000 concerts in the worlds leading festivals and Concert Halls,and has broken down the boundaries of her instrument, the recorder.. Since youth she has followed her wish for musical expansion in various ways, through commissioning more than 150 new works, - including more than 30 recorder concertos ...
Michala Petri started playing the recorder at the age of 3. Since the age of 17 had a full time international career unusual for her instrument and has in many countries brought the recorder to the concert stages alongside more established concert instruments. She has performed more than 5.000 concerts around the world in major concert halls and festivals and has a discography of more than 80 ...
May 15, 2018 · Contemporary music makes a notable appearance on The Modern Recorder, performed by the Petri Trio, as well as Moonchild’s Dream, with the English Chamber Orchestra and conductor Okko Kamu – “a beauty” of an album (Classical.net) that contains five world premiere recordings from composers including Thomas Koppell, Vagn Holmboe and Malcolm Arnold. Other albums also highlight Petri’s ...
Michala Petri. Perhaps the world's most widely recognized recorder player, gaining popularity in the 1980s with her virtuosic recordings. Read Full Biography.
Michala Petri (born 7 July 1958 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish recorder player. Petri is sought after as a soloist with many noted orchestras, including the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. She has released 34 recordings, has toured extensively over four continents, and has had dozens of pieces written for her. Her debut as a soloist ...
The repertoire is very much Petri’s canonical one – the last Beethoven sonatas, Busoni, Chopin as well as Bach-Busoni and Bach-Petri. He was always a charming exponent of Gluck, a more unexpected one here of Medtner. Of Liszt there’s but a fleeting glimpse – Venezia e Napoli, taped in the last year of his life.
