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Mr. Petrich studied composition with the Pulitzer Prize-winning <br /> American composer Leo Sowerby at the American Conservatory of Music in <br /> Chicago. He continued his studies with Dr. Sowerby as one of the first <br /> Fellows of the College of Church Musicians at Washington National <br /> Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Petrich also studied composition with Ernst <br /> Pepping at the Berlin School of Church Music in Spandau, Germany and <br /> sang as a member of the Spandauer Kantorei under the direction of Helmut <br /> Rilling. <br /> Mr. Petrich's music has been published by Oxford University Press as <br /> well as Selah, Concordia, Morningstar, Augsburg and Fortress publishing. <br /> The Choral Variations on `Ah, Holy Jesus ' has been recorded several times, <br /> most notably in "Music from Riverside." Two of his compositions for <br /> trumpet, Sonatina and Prayer and Epilogue, have been recorded by Paul <br /> Neebe and featured on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Pipe <br /> Dreams." The recently composed Missa Brevis has been premiered at St <br /> Lambertus Basilika, Netherlands. <br /> Zatten was commissioned in 2005 by Paul Neebe during the composer's <br /> vacation to do ancestral research in the town of Zatten, currently part of <br /> Poland. The premiere was in 2007 with the East Chapel Hill High School <br /> Orchestra, Paul Neebe soloist, Ryan Ellefsen conducting and Roger Petrich <br /> in attendance. <br /> The composer writes: "The DNA of this composition tracks back to my <br /> great-grandfather and the tiny Plattdeutsch village where he was born. Zatten <br /> is located in the eastern part of Berlin/Brandenburg and in an area of forest <br /> and small farms dating back to the 1600s. My grandfather R. T. Petrich, <br /> whose initials I bear, was six years old when he, along with his parents, <br /> sister and older brother left Prussia to start a new life in the USA. <br /> My own childhood memories include many visits to the family <br /> homestead in Dakota Territory, where I used to play in the barn which <br /> hosted many summer dances. The Dakota sky was vast by day, and nights <br /> could become magical with the addition of the Northern Lights. Though not <br /> a professional musician, my father kept up his trumpet playing all his life. In <br /> a special way it was his "voice" — a sound that deeply imprinted all my <br /> growing up years. All of this is mixed together in my Zatten Concerto." <br /> Eddie Bass (b. 1937) is Professor Emeritus at the School of Music UNC- <br /> Greensboro. He earned his A.B., M.M., and Ph.D. degrees from UNC- <br /> Chapel Hill and taught at Marshall University before coming to UNCG in <br /> 1968. From 1985 until 1993 Dr. Bass chaired the department of <br />