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Sunday
- January 20, 2008
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| Accordion
Sculpture |
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This
beautiful Accordion Sculpture was made especially for
the CIA Winter Congress in Skopje by Macedonian artist
Nikolina Trajanovska, pictured above left with Accordion
Association of Macedonia President Zorica Karakutovska.
CIA President Kevin Friedrich is pictured with Macedonian
Accordion Association Public Relations Manager Anica
Karakutovska.
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| CIA
General Assembly - Closing Session |
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Finland
- Kimmo MATTILA
Austria
- Herbert SCHEIBENREIF
Portugal - Carlos SEMEDO
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Austria
- Werner WEIBERT, Macedonia - Zorica KARAKUTOVSKA,
Germany
- Günther
ZEILINGER, France
- Jacques MORNET, Italy
- Mirco PATARINI
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Macedonia
- Zorica KARAKUTOVSKA, Germany
- Günther
ZEILINGER, Italy
- Mirco PATARINI, UK
- Anna BODELL, France
- Frederic DESCHAMPS, UK
- Raymond BODELL
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Finland
- Kimmo MATTILA, USA
- Kevin FRIEDRICH, Portugal - Carlos SEMEDO, Macedonia
- Elizabeta
ILIEVSKA,
Macedonia - Anica KARAKUTOVSKA,
Serbia - Nenad LJUBENOVIC and
Aleksandar NIKOLIC, Croatia
- Vjera ODAK-JEMBRIH
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Macedonia
- Anica KARAKUTOVSKA
Italy - Mirco
PATARINI
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Serbia
- Aleksandar NIKOLIC
Croatia - Vjera ODAK-JEMBRIH
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Bosnia
& Herzegovina - Zorin RAKIC, France
- Frederic DESCHAMPS, UK
- Raymond BODELL
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Italy
- Mirco PATARINI
Serbia - Nenad LJUBENOVIC
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signing
the artist sketch
Frederic DESCHAMPS
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signing
the artist sketch
Kevin FRIEDRICH with Zorica
KARAKUTOVSKA
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| CIA
Youth Council with Macedonian Students |
At
the conclusion of the General Assembly Meeting, CIA delegates
conducted an extremely interesting meeting with local
accordion students to discuss many interesting topics,
including their experiences at the various Coupe Mondiale
festivals attended, issues relating to their life as an
accordion student in Macedonia and their hopes for their
own musical careers and the future of the accordion.
Participating students in this CIA Student Council Forum
included Boban Peric (20 yrs), Bojan Volchevski (20 yrs),
Elena Jovcheska (18 yrs), Maztin Kolevski (19 yrs), Ljupco
Kolevski (16 yrs) and Aleksandar Kolovski (17 yrs). Recognizing
and appreciating the importance of the tremendous work
being carried out by the young students, the CIA plans
to conduct similar meetings at future CIA events in order
to gain a better understanding and working relationship
with accordion students around the world.
Subjects covered included practice techniques, their experiences
at International Competitions and their hopes and dreams
for the future.
Regarding the International competitions, the students
felt the experience of being exposed to, and hearing other
students from around the world and the works they were
performing was extremely valuable. Each that had participated
in the Coupe Mondiale festival said that they made the
effort to hear as many of their fellow competitors as
possible. They expressed concern at the extreme variation
in the range of marks from the jury members within particular
categories, as well as the importance of good performance
venues for the competition categories, ranging from acoustics,
to practice and warm up facilities to the temperature
of the venue. They felt that these were contributing factors
to a successful competition experience, one that culminates
in many hours of practice and considerable expense in
traveling to the festival.
During this extremely interesting session, the underlying
common factor that each of the students expressed, was
their desire to further their musical education to the
highest level while elevating the status and level of
the accordion in their geographical areas of Macedonia.
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Members
of the CIA General Assembly in conference with the Macedonian
Students
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CIA
Student Council Forum members from Macedonia included
(from left to right) Boban Peric (20 yrs), Bojan Volcevski
(20 yrs), Elena Jovcheska (18 yrs), Maztin Kolevski
(19 yrs), Ljupco Kolevski (16 yrs) and Aleksandar Kolovski
(17 yrs).
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| Farewells |
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Members
of the CIA Delegation bid farewell at the Hotel Victoria
at the conclusion of an extremely successful 119th General
Assembly of Delegates and Winter Congress
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CIA
General Kimmo Mattila says farewell to Vice President
Herbert Scheibenreif
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DHV
Delegate from Germany Günther
Zeilinger and Kimmo Mattila make their way to the plane
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