Reviews

Ionel Petroi composes works in the vein of “music relative”, which follow the rhythmic patterns worthy of Stravinsky.

Anne Rey Le Monde (France)

The most funniest piece was the world premiere "Les mélodies de Sancho Pança" by Ionel Petroï. This consisted of seven short songs, all but one set to nonsense syllables, with sardonically conventional tonal harmonies. The joke was that the accompaniments, expertly rendered by the Arlekin Quartet and bassist Jim Bergman, constantly warp the familiar chords by quarter-tone, yielding music whose out-of-tuneness undercuts its intentional banality. Baritone Roderick Gomez was the exquisitely suave soloist.

Joshua Kosman Chronicle Music Critic San Francisco Chronicle (USA)