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CONFEDERATION
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 Coupe Mondiale Kragujevac, Yugoslavia |
| Excursion to the Zirca Monastery | |||
On Saturday morning, contestants,
delegates and guests were treated to an excursion to the Zirca Monastery,
one of the oldest monasteries in Serbia, which is located approximately
one hour south of Kragujevac. | |||
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| CIA Merit Award to Radomir Tomic | |||
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CIA President Ove
Hahn is pictured to the left, after presenting the award to Radomir,
pictured center, and to the right is the 2000 CIA Festival organizer,
Milan Tomic. | |||
| The 2000 Jury | |||
Pictured left to right: Diana Stantcheva - Bulgaria Radomir Tomic - Yugoslavia John Leslie - United Kingdom Olivier Urbano - France Sergey Voitenko - Russia Frode Andersen - Denmark Walter Maurer - Austria Aleksandr Dmitriev - Russia Paulo Jorge Ferreira - Portugal Gianluca Pica - Italy Zorica Karakutovska - Macedonia Jacques Mornet - France Amaia Liceaga - Spain Vojin Vasovic - Yugoslavia Boris Lenko - Slovakia (not pictured) | |||
| Festival Concerts | |||
Predrag Kostovic - accordion and Suzana Racic - piano (pictured
to the right) performed the Concerto for Two Pianos in C minor, 1st movement
by J. S. Bach.  Dragan
Djokic - accordion, performed Tango by Piazzolla with the Chamber
Ensemble of Music Art Faculty from Belgrade. | |||
 The
Accordion Orchestra of the Kragujevac Music School, Conducted by Denis
Modrusan, pictured with soloist Irina Vasovic - Domra, after performing
the Concerto for Domra and accordion orchestra in G minor, 1st movement
by N. Budashkin.
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 1998
CIA Coupe Mondiale Champion Konstantin Istchenko from Russia is
pictured receiving congratulations after his outstanding recital which
was part of the nightly concert series offered to the contestants, delegates
and guests.
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| Coupe Mondiale Competitors | |||
 Pictured
to the left is Italian contestant Gianluca Campi. To
the right are pictured some "Flashes of Fun from France!" Virtuoso contestants from France including Vincent-Pierre Carenzi (Junior), Marielle Roy, Xavier Rollet and Mickael Richard (Senior) were just four of the contestants playing the the brightly colored instruments. | |||
United
Kingdom Coupe Mondiale contestant Lyndsey-Ann Allan (left)
being interviewed by a local TV station. 
CIA
General Secretary Walter Maurer from Austria and CIA President
Ove Hahn from Sweden are pictured outside the Zirca Monastery
Radomir Tomic - Yugoslavia was the recipient of the prestigious
CIA Merit Award, one of the highest honors to be awarded to accordion
dignitaries around the world. 