Alice Ping Yee Ho - The Imagined (Christina Petrowska-Quilico)

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Composer: Alice Ping Yee Ho

• Pictures from An Imagined Exhibition (2025)
• A Manic Ride Through Lollipop Hell (2024)
• The Chinese Nightingale (2022)
• Hong Kong Nostalgia 香港懷情 (2023)

Christina Petrowska-Quilico, piano

Date: 2026

Label: Navona

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THE IMAGINED brings together four solo piano works by Alice Ping Yee Ho, performed with expressive depth and technical refinement by Christina Petrowska Quilico. Inspired by visual art, theatre, mythology, and personal memory, each composition creates a distinct imaginative landscape while contributing to a unified exploration of narrative and sound. Throughout the album, the piano functions as both storyteller and canvas, translating emotional and cultural imagery into richly textured musical expression. Blending influences from Eastern and Western artistic traditions, THE IMAGINED highlights the transformative power of creativity and music’s unique ability to evoke worlds that are at once deeply personal and vividly universal.

Alice Ping Yee Ho is an acclaimed composer whose innovative and emotionally expressive work spans opera, orchestral, chamber, choral, dance, theatre, and electroacoustic music. Drawing on both her Chinese heritage and contemporary Western musical techniques, she has developed a distinctive cross-cultural voice recognized internationally for its originality and dramatic depth. Over her career, Ho has received numerous honors, including the 2024 Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music and the 2019 Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize, while her compositions have been performed by leading orchestras and ensembles across Canada, Europe, and Asia. A two-time JUNO Award nominee with more than twelve solo recordings, her work ranges from opera and electronic ballet music to solo piano and chamber cycles. Collaborating with celebrated performers such as Christina Petrowska Quilico and Evelyn Glennie, Ho continues to shape contemporary music through a richly imaginative and globally resonant artistic vision.

Christina Petrowska-Quilico is one of Canada’s most celebrated pianists, internationally recognized for her virtuosity, artistic versatility, and unwavering advocacy for contemporary and Canadian music. A recipient of the Order of Canada, the Order of Ontario, and a Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada, she has built an extraordinary career spanning more than six decades as a performer, recording artist, educator, and cultural leader. Her extensive discography of over 67 albums includes landmark recordings of concertos, solo piano works, and music by Canadian composers, particularly women composers such as Ann Southam and Alice Ping Yee Ho. Praised for her “commanding pianism” and emotional depth, Quilico has premiered numerous contemporary works written specifically for her and has collaborated with leading composers, orchestras, and conductors worldwide. Beyond performance, her contributions extend to teaching, visual art, mentorship, and philanthropy, reinforcing her lasting impact on Canada’s cultural and musical landscape.

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