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| Final CIA Gala Concert in famed Pesti Vigado Hall - Budapest | ||||||||
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| Famous Hungarian Accordionist Tabanyi Mihaly | ||||||||
  Tabanyi
Mihaly is one of the most interesting and versatile personalities of Hungarian
pop music and jazz. His vast number of recordings and thousands of performances are legendary. The life long success of this accordion artist is based on his extraordinary talent and excellent education he received while studying at the Academy of Music.  Mihaly
Tabany, a living legend, still performs on stage at the age of eighty
two. The ageless musician has enjoyed undiminished popularity for over
sixty years.In the forties he took the most active part in elaborating Hungarian jazz and dance music and he has become the first and most prestigious representative of swing stile accordion music in Hungary. Tabany has developed a network of eminently skilled musicians around him. He performs jazz improvisations on Hungarian folk music. At the CIA Gala Closing Concert in Budapest, Tabanyi (pictured left) was presented with an award from the Hungarian Accordion Association for his contributions to the Accordion movement in Hungary. | ||||||||
| World Premiere Performance of Hungarian Composition "Osbemutato." | ||||||||
 The
Gala Closing Concert of the 56th Coupe Mondiale featured the World Premiere
of the new work 'Osbemutato' by Hungarian composer Mate Hollos. Hollos is the winner of the Bartok and Erkel-Pastory Award and the President of the Hungarian Composers Association. He was commissioned by the Hungarian Accordion Association to write this work for the 56th Coupe Mondiale Gala Concert. The performance was given by 2002 CIA Coupe Mondiale Alexander Poeluev from Russia. | ||||||||
| Winner of the International Competition for Piano Accordion | ||||||||
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| Winner of 2003 Coupe Mondiale - Nikolay Sivchuk | ||||||||
 Nikolay
Sivchuk was born in 1981 in Surgut located in Northern Siberia. He studied
at the Music School A. Korol and the Music College L. Kuzakin.In 2000 Nikolay moved to Moscow and began studying with Professor Viatcheslav Semionov at the Gnessin Institute. He is a member of the duo "Ugoria" with fellow accordionist Alexi Peresidly. In 2002 this duo took First Prize at the International Competition for Accordion Duo in Klingentahl. | ||||||||
The
Gala Concert Closing Ceremony of the 56th Coupe Mondiale took
place in the famed Pesti Vigado Concert Hall in central Budapest.
Its
interior spaces are decorated with frescoes with themes by Karoly
Lotz and Mor Tahn. Most of the statues were created by the sculptor
Karoly Alexy. The Vigado was was seriously damaged in the Second
World War and was reopened again in 1980.
Pavel
Mangasakian was born in 1977 in Saratov which is on the Volga River
approximately 800km from Moscow. 