2012 “Baidi Cup” National Accordion Competitions, Daily Report

Daily Report - 13th August

Du Zehui

Song Ying

Lin Yuan

Competitors waiting on floor 7 for their turn to compete.

The crowd outside the small competition room on floor 5.

Well known teachers Zhang Gouping and Li Yansheng

Li Yansheng, Zhai Juan, Li Yun and Guan Lei.

Yong Xiao

Liu Minqi

I spoke with Zhao Jing Xuan (picture left), General Manager of Tianjin "Baidi" Musical Instrument Co. which is the official sponsor of this event.

Zhao said, that from 2007, Baidi had been a sponsor. In the first year, the event was held in Jinan, 2009 in Qingdao, and returning again to Jinan for 2012.

The Baidi company was interested to sponsor the National Accordion Competitions so as to promote the Baidi accordions and also encourage more children to learn accordion.

The Baidi company has a display at the 2012 competitions and included in the display was a new model button accordion, 97 treble notes, 120 bass and the instrument has 3 treble sets of reeds, one set being high piccolo type reeds.

Picture left of Zhao Jing Xuan with the new Baidi model.
Picture below of the Baidi display.

The Baidi company has a close association with Cagnoni Accordion Reeds of Italy and the professional level Baidi accordions are manufactured with Italian reeds supplied by the Cagnoni company of Italy.

The Baidi company has also supported the Baidi Accordion Orchestra conducted by Chen Weiliang and that orchestra will be performing next in Beijing on the 15th August.

The Baidi company was also a sponsor of the 2011 Coupe Mondiale World Accordion Orchestra event that was held in Shanghai. Picture left: banner about this event.

That night, many internationally well known accordionists from all over the world played Baidi accordions in this orchestra and afterwards, they signed these instruments with their name. Most of the instruments were then sold but some have been kept for historical reasons.

Zhao said that the Baidi company is happy to continue supporting the “Baidi Cup” National Accordion Competitions for the coming years.

Her aim for the Baidi company is to continue improving the quality of the instruments so as to produce the most suitable accordions for the Chinese people, which she believes is the path for Baidi accordions to become the most popular in China.

Afternoon

This afternoon, several categories had their second round finals and the afternoon was ending a little earlier to enable the Closing Ceremony and prize giving to be organised by 7:30 pm.
	Above are Lu Yu and Li Zhuochen.

Chen Yijun and Xu Yifang	Bi Dan, Huang Rong, Yang Hanqing and Zhao Tianqi.

Hu Yao and Cao Muzhi.	Tian Chengcheng

Liu Bin	Wu Yanan

Closing Ceremony


The competition results were announced at 6:30 pm, one hour before the Closing Ceremony began.	Some of the young children and their teachers taking photographs in front of the stage.

	The compere's opening the concert.

There was a large banner across the top of the stage, in front. At the back of the stage was a very colorful logo for the event.

President of the China Accordion Association (CAA) Prof. Li Cong was asked to open the concert. There was a big cheer and clapping as he took the stage.	Above Li Cong making his speech followed by the highly esteemed Zhang Ziqiang who is the immediate Past President of the China Accordion Association (CAA).

Zhang Ziqiang completing his speech.	Fu Yong, Chief judge and chief organizer of the 2012 "Baidi Cup" National Acordion Competitions.

Fu Yong.	A picture of the large hall shows just how full the seating is.

Zhang Ziqiang and Li Cong.	The first music of the Closing Ceremony was a large group and when I turned around to look at the audience, there was a wall of enthusiastic supporting parents with cameras and videos.

Yucai No. 1 Primary School Shenzhen, teacher Ma Yiguang. The uniform is a folk costume of that region on the plains and	they were beautifully presented and co-ordinated. They were also enjoying performing as you can see from the following pictures.

Beautiful smiles	by some of the

talented young players.	Winner Senior Grade 3 was Wu Sijia.

Wu Sijia

Ensemble of Wu Shui, Liu Sen and Gao Chen.

All the third prize contestants on stage receiving their certificates.

Wan Yizhong	Wan Yizhong

Xu Yifang and Chen Yijun.

Lin Jinghan and Zhang Zhuo played with backing tracks and the two young players were a hit with the audience.	They made moved really nicely on the stage, played very well, which the audience appreciated.

All the 2nd prize winners.

Shi Xuan was the entertainment winner	Zhao Zhao was another entertainment category winner.

Gui Bin, Duan Lei, Zhang Qingyi, Chen Chen, Zhang Meng and Zhang Shen.

Zhao Bo, Wu Chen and Cao Xuesong.

First place winners.

A close up of the first place winners standing near the accordion dignatories making the presentations.

Zhao Bo.

This orchestra had no name. Some of the players names were: Wang Ruitang, Fan Lanxin, Liu Yiceng, Chen Haowing (apologies that not all the names are listed).

Wan Yizhong and Shi Xuan.

The Closing Ceremony was officially closed and after that there was quite a lot of photos being taken.	Translator Tracey Meng with Harley Jones. Tracey was a most efficient assistant, helping gather the names of all the people in this report and many other jobs too.

A picture of all the teachers and the two comperes.

Winners: Shi Xuan, ?? Li Cong, Harley Jones, Crystal Wang, Wu Sijia and Wan Yizhong.