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Accordions Worldwide has received a number of recent requests from readers who have checked the Yellow Pages and are looking for accordion teachers in various areas of Germany. If you teach in this area please submit your details so we can list you and prospective students can find you. We include listings for individual teachers and schools. Wayne Knights Webmaster |
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The duo played their whole repertoire as background music during the evening. Prince Edward (as representative for his father, Prince Charles) stood and thanked the duo, commenting on what a novel combination they were, describing them as "the concert harp and the stomach Steinway". |
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Contributed by Holda Paoletti-Kampl The 5th annual Advanced Accordion Course of Musical Interpretation "Città di Anagni" will be held from January 3rd to 7th 2001 in Italy, organized by the A.P.M Music Center in collaboration with the C.N.IO.M.A. of Larodde (France). Tutors include Jacques Mornet, Gianluca Pica and Nathalie Boucheix. This year’s event will cover new topics, including the parallelism between accordion and saxophone, main changes in teaching and performance of the accordion at the dawn of a new century. For further details email: simix.dj@libero.it |
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Each year this event brings together musicians from Poland, USA, Germany, United Kingdom, Baltic countries, Russia etc. This year’s festival will include composer's portraits of Luciano Berio, Klaus Hinrich Stahmer, Moritz Eggert, Sergej Slonimski, Arvo Paert, Alexander Radvilovitch. In addition world premieres will be performed by accordionist Sergej Tchirkov including a solo work written by Professor John Palmer (Great Britain), a new work for accordion and violin by young composer Michael Kroutik (St. Petersburg) and the Russian premiere of a new work by Professor Klaus Hinrich Stahmer entitled "To Lose is to Have". For further details email Alexander Radvilovitch: music@lpbl.spb.ru 5 |
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Australian accordionist Bernadette Conlon will support comedienne, Rachel Berger in concerts at the George Ballroom in St. Kilda, Melbourne on November 22nd and 29th. Bernadette will play a variety of French music. |
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The achievements of these musicians include victories in numerous national competitions, the first prize in the prestigious Castelfidardo competition both in the jazz solo and jazz group category, a scholarship granted to Osvaldo Guarnieri during the international accordion week held in Stradella (Italy), and the inclusion of Giovanni Di Silvestre in the orchestra of the Italian national broadcasting corporation (RAI) after a very demanding selection process. Pictured are the two students with Richard Galliano and Renzo Ruggieri during the recent seminars held in Stradella. |
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Contributed by Mike O'Regan From November 10th to 13th the Haven Holiday Camp in Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk, England, became the focus of accordionists and accordion fans from the UK and abroad. The Caister Accordion Weekend is fast becoming a major world event, and this year certainly added to its fame. The weekend was a mixture of contrasts. At one time the stage was occupied by Serge Duchesne (Canada), playing the latest in technology, an electronic, radio-controlled accordion, while later a band solely consisting of “vintage” accordions performed. There were numerous concerts by international competition winner Frédéric Langlais and Italian Vincenzo Abbracciante and later the same stage was used by amateur players, some of whom were playing for the first time in public!
On Saturday morning an attempt was made to break the Guinness Book of Records figure for accordionists playing simultaneously. A group of 201 played a short medley of Scottish Airs. The Weekend had something for everyone, with workshops, impromptu bands and orchestras and even meals were eaten to the accompaniment of Harry Hussey. Guest of honor was Giancarlo Borsini, head of the Italian firm that bears his name. |
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Jan van Bokhoven is currently making a program for Radio "Air Libre" (on 87.7FM) in Brussels about accordionists. He would like to hear from accordionists in Belgium, who are interested in taking part in a interview about their music, works etc. Jan would also like some information on *Pierre Vanderhagen. If you can help please email: jvbo@hotmail.com |
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Contributed by Toru Katou Basque quintet "Alaitz eta Maider", which features "trikitixa" accordionist Alaitz Telletxea will tour Japan in December. The group perform traditional dance tunes which are played at festivals in Basque villages on the accordion, panderoa (Basque tambourine), drums, guitar and bass. Concerts will be held in Tokyo and Osaka. For further information email Kaira Productions: kaira@music.email.ne.jp |
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Contributed by Holda Paoletti-Kampl
The 10th National competition for classical and variety accordionists and keyboard players, and the 2nd International “Città di Lanciano” competition for concert accordionists, organized by the Popular Traditions Association and the Lanciano city council, was held from October 19th to 22nd in Lanciano with Cesare Chiacchiaretta as its artistic director. Numerous candidates came from Livorno, Latina, Frosinone, Potenza, Macerata, Roma and Brindisi, to perform in front of a large and attentive crowd at the magnificent Fenaroli Theatre. The jury included artists such as Mauro Lapietra, Vittorio Solaris and Cesare Chiacchiaretta for the keyboards section, and Alexander Dmitriev, Antonio de Sousa, Cesare Chiacchiaretta and Vladimir Zubitski (President) for the accordion section. Evening concerts were held by the Accord’Ance accordion sextet, Vladimir and Natalia Zubitski (piano and accordion duo) and soloist Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi. The considerable efforts of the organizers enabled the competition to boast seven million lira in prize money. A high level of preparation was shown by the candidates, which testifies to the substantial improvements of the Italian accordion movement over the past few years. The success of the event convinced the artistic director and the Popular Traditions Association to introduce for next year, two new international categories, variety and classical junior.
Results: The prize for the best piano accordionist went to Toni Pecanov. |
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Workshops and concerts featuring the piano accordion, concertina, stradella, free bass, diatonic and chromatic button accordions began on November 14th and will run to the 18th in Minnesota. The event began with a “Memorial Concert Honoring Hanni Strahl” with performances by Helmi Strahl Harrington, Ph.D., Lynda Griffith and the Strahl Music Ensemble. The next day a “Masterclass for Accordionists” of all levels presented by Helmi Strahl Harrington, Ph.D. was followed by an “Accordion & Concertina Music Concert”. Other events included a workshop “Give Yourself a Hand” presented by Lynda Griffith (specialist in treatment of injuries to musicians). Two further workshops will be held on November 18th: “Performance Techniques for Intermediate Accordionists” presented by Helmi Strahl Harrington, Ph.D. and “Making Light, the Accordion” presented by Lynda Griffith. For further details see Future Events |
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Accordionist Joseph Petric will perform in the Carte Blanche concert series, held in the “Salle Pierre Mercure”, Montreal (one of Canada's premiere halls) on December 4th. The concert will feature works by Krebs (for accordion, trumpet and trombone, with Alain Trudel and Guy Few), Bach Organ Sonata in Eb (for accordion and clarinet with Fiona Cross of London England), Lutowslawski's Dance Preludes (for accordion and clarinet), John Zorn's Roadrunner (for solo accordion) and Omar Daniel's accordion concerto Murder Ballads (with the Nouvelle Ensemble Moderne conducted by Lorraine Vaillancourt). For details email: jpetric@interlog.com. |
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For concert details email: jmacshow@pnc.com.au |
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Ivano Battiston (accordion) and David Bellugi (recorder) will tour the USA in March 2001. If you would like them to perform at an event in the USA during this time please email: ivanobattiston@tin.it |
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Contributed by Joanna Tordjeman The 18th International accordion and piano Grand Prix was held in Geneva from November 3rd to 5th, where accordionists (solo, duo and orchestra), pianists, keyboard players and groups participated. Massimo Pigini attended the competition, which was organized by Fernand and Gaby Lacroix. The jury included Raymond Bodell, Claudine and José Cintas, Vitali Dimitriev, Lana Gore, Hans and Lotte Luck, Oleg Sharov, Gabriel Veit and Guoping Zhang. Concerts were given by Vitali Dimitriev, Oleg Sharov, Guoping Zhang and competition prizewinners. Results: |
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Owen Murray, professor of accordion at the Royal Academy of Music in London, has been appointed the position of accordion teacher at the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music in Odense, Denmark. He will now teach in both Academies on a weekly basis. Owen performed the accordion part of Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s new opera “The Last Supper” with the Glyndebourne Opera Company at Glyndebourne in October. The opera is currently on tour in England and will culminate with a performance at the Royal Festival Hall in London on January 26th 2001. For further details email: Murray@post.tele.dk |
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Contributed by Holda Paoletti-Kampl Ed note: It is great to see so many accordionists performing for charity lately, giving more people the chance to enjoy the accordion. Well done! |
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Contributed by Doris Audétat Polish accordionist *Krzysztof Dobrek performed at the ORF-Radiokulturhaus in Vienna on November 13th together with his new ensemble “Dobrek Bistro”. The ensemble plays a varied program which includes Dobrek’s own compositions and music have been described as “from Yiddish folk to film music, from virtuoso Paris to Tango, from Cuba to Krakow, from fun through the desert to Russia, from ethnic Jazz and Grapelli to Brazil, from the fogs of arabesque to Odessa, and from classical music via dance to a concert colorful, funny, deep, shining bright and large”. |
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Contributed by Holda Paoletti-Kampl The Accord'Ance
accordion sextet performed in the cloister of the abbey of S. Maria
di Propezzano in Morro d'Oro (province of Teramo) on November 8th. The
concert was broadcast live during the "Cominciamo bene" show on the third
channel of the national network. The sextet (which is currently busy recording
its first CD), played music by J. S. Bach. |
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Contributed by Toru Katou On November16th, the "Ensemble De Le Gahra", which features accordionist “Onoe”, successfully performed at a wine party held at the "Adhock Hotel Marufuku" in Tokuyama, Yamaguchi Prefecture. |
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Texas Folklife Resources will hold a concert on December 9th at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas as part of their Texas Folk Masters 2000-2001 series. The event will include Tejano, conjunto and country music hosted by Little Joe Hernandez. Performers include conjunto accordionist Santiago Jimenez, Jnr, and Tex Mex band “Little Joe y La Familia”. For further details phone: + 1 512 441-9255. |
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A new Article entitled “Musician or Magician??” written by Mary Kasprzyk Tokarski of the "K" Trio, USA is now online. |
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Contributed by Holda Paoletti-Kampl The Association for the promotion of the concert accordion has organised a performance by the Osvaldo Guarnieri Group on November 17th at the multipurpose venue "Ivo Padula" in Collecorvino (province of Pescara). On the same evening the group (1999 winner of the Castelfidardo competition in the jazz group category), will be awarded a scholarship by Claudio Calista, founder of the Association and well-known accordion teacher. |
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The Mount San Antonio College will present the first Accordion Ensemble Recital to the public on December 3rd at the Mt. Sac Performing Arts Center in Walnut, California. This is free event that aims to present the accordion as a fun instrument. For further details email: Bumbi7@aol.com. |
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Contributed by Faithe Deffner, President of the American Accordionists’ Association A new book “Songs of Mexico For Accordion” by Herman Troppe is now available. The book 19 favorite traditional Mexican songs arranged for piano accordion soloists such as Hay Unos Ojos, La Malaguena, Cielito Lindo, Chiapanecas, La Bamba and many others. For details email: FDeffner@aol.com. |
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Alfalfa (which includes accordionist Mette Kathrine Jensen) recently released a demo CD with accompanying brochure. The group, which includes accordion, bass and drums, plays Scandinavian, Irish, Scottish and Cajun music. If you would like a copy of this CD email: alfalfaontour@hotmail.com. |
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Cocktail
Concert Performance - Italy
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For further concert details email: ensemble@virgilio.it |
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http://www.accordions.com/accordchouette http://www.accordions.com/orla http://www.accordions.com/gruber |
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Sandy Stanton would like some information on a Hohner Marchesa piano accordion such as its year of manufacture and possible value. Email: sandys@austarnet.com.au Otto Hansen would like information on a Dise chromatic accordion. Email: ot.hansen@c2i.net Manlio Lopez has a large Da Vinci button accordion still in its original case and would like some information such as: is this brand still made and where he can check to identify it. Email: manlio_lopez@yahoo.com Fred Goodrich bought the “Howell-Aretta System of Modern Accordion Study” instruction system in 1957. He has attempted to purchase the complete above reference system with no success and currently has lessons 51 to 90. He would like to buy the missing lessons. If you can help please email: fandc@worldnet.att.net April would like information on a looped accordion as played by Lisa Gerrard. Email: ashowe@coair.com Udo Boschetto is looking for sheet music by Piazzolla for piano accordion and vocalist (soprano), especially pieces performed by Milva. Email: 03392667509@tim.it |
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Thérèse Jeani would like information on an old Horner accordion, with gold inscriptions. Email: therese.jean@sympatico.ca Herb Doria would like some information on a Ludwig Piccolo "Rajah" accordion (such as its history and how to acquire parts) made in Germany. Email: herden@lemoorenet.com Philip Strunk would like information on a Concertone accordion made in Germany. Email: kristina73@qtm.net
Jim Corbitt would like information on a C Fidardo # 5588 piano accordion. The inside of the case reads Geib & Schaefer Co. Pat #86270. He would also like details on a Contello #04932 piano accordion. Email: DEW11DW@aol.com |
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XII International Seminar and Festival of New music "Sound Ways" will
be held from November 19th to 26th in St. Petersburg. Tutors include Professors
Klaus Hinrich Stahmer (Germany) and Sergej Slonimski (St. Petersburg)
as well as other renowned composers. 
Osvaldo
Guarnieri and Giovanni Di Silvestre are two students in the first specialist
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“age” contrast came from 5 year old Andrew Lukins, playing with his mother
and father (both professional accordionists). Andrew’s grandfather was
a very well-known broadcasting accordionist in the 40’s and 50’s. At the
other end of the time scale was “Mister Jimmy”, at the age of 88 and still
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Books in Fairview Heights, Illinois on December 10th. The group plays
tangos by *Christopher Caliendo, Astor Piazzolla, many traditional tangos,
and a variety of music such as "Dark Eyes" and "The Godfather". They are
often joined by the dance group, "Tango El Compas". For further details
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