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Michala Petri and Lars Hannibals CD "Siesta" , with music by Astor Piazzolla, Joan Albert Armagós, Maurice Ravel, Jacques Ibert and Heitor Villa-Lobos is now released on their own new recording company "OUR Recordings".<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The CD will be international distribuated on NAXOS. You can hear pieces from " Siesta " under Discography on the homepage, and buy it online from www.dacapo.dk, or www.naxos.com or www.amazon .com. You can also download the music directly from i-tunes.

The CD " Spirits- East meets West" is now released. I recorded the CD with Chinese Xiao player Chen Yue, one of the younger generations leading Xiao players. in October 2006 in Beijing.

In April 2006 Michala Petri recorded 3 recorder concertos written for her, with Danish National Symphony Orchestra / DR and chinese conductor Lan Shui. <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The title on the new album is "Movements", and the 3 pieces are "Northern Concerto" by spanish composer Joan Albert Amargos,"Pipes and Bells" by swedish composer Daniel Börtz, and "Etudes" by american composer Steven Stucky. <br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The release will be primo May on "Our Recordings", but it is possible already to listen to some of the music on this webside under Discography.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The recordings are all world premieres!<br>

In April Michala was on tour in Italy, in ten concerts playing in Bach`s Brandenburg Concertos with Bologna Mozart Orchestra, founded and conducted by Claudio Abbado. Other members of the small group were Reinhold Friedrich, trumpet, Guiliano Carmignola, violin, Mario Brunello, cello and Alois Posch, double bass. The venues were beautiful old theatres, like the newly restored Teatro Fenice in Venice. One of the concerts were filmed, and will be released later this year on DVD by Euro Arts.<br>

One year short of her 50th birthday Michala will celebrate another special day - when she turns 7x7 on the 7/7-07. (Michalas mother ws 4X7 when Michala was born and is today 77, Michalas father will turn 77 the day after her, on July 8.) 7X7 is said to mark a new beginning - and indeed Michala will on the day make a bridge between old and new by perfoming frequently played Telemann and Vivaldi in a place where she has never been before: in Kuala Lumpur with Malaysian Symphony Orchestra - and orchestra which has musicians from all over the world - and Matthias Bamert. A few days later she will premiere Amargos´ "Northern Concerto" - just released on the CD "Movements" - with Singapore Symphony Orchestra

In the early Spring I invited Chen Yue to play 5 concerts in Denmark, and we ended with a concert at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. This Concert was filmed as a co-production between OUR Recordings and ARTHouse Production.

Together with guitarist Lars Hannibal, Michala was asked to make a one hour program called Klassik-Pop-et cetera. The idea is to give the artists a possibility to play and talk about some of the music they like when they are listeners themselves. The program will be broadcasted on Deutschlandfunk December the 1th.

20 years ago Michala recorded a Christmas Album for BMG,- but for many years it has not been available. Now she just finished a new Christmas Album, Petris Jul, with Danish Radio Sinfonietta conducted by Henrik Vagn Christensen.The repertoire is a combination of Danish traditinal Christmas Songs and Psalms, and Classical music related to Christmas time. The recording is a co-production between OUR Recordings and Foreign Media Group Scandinavia. The release is scheduled to be medio November 2007.

On july the 13th Michala premiered Northern Concerto by Joan Albert Amargos in Singapore with Mahai Tang conducting the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.<br>The piece is already recorded and released on OUR Recordings in June 2007

In January Michala and I recorded music to a new cd in Torpen Lapel in Humlebæk,- Denmark