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4th International Ural Accordion
Festival - Russia
 Contributed
by Raimondas
Sviackevicius
The successful IV International Ural Accordion
Festival was held in Cheliabinsk from November 9th to 14th, organized
by the General Culture and Art Administration of Cheliabinsk District
and the Philarmony of Cheliabinsk. The initiator and artistic director
of the festival was the Professor of Cheliabinsk High Music School,
Nikolay Ishchenko.
 Concerts
were held in the beautiful "Organ Hall", an old church with very
good acoustics and the public were treated to a variety of different
music styles and genres from Religious, Baroque to modern, avantgarde
and French musette music. Performers included Aidar Gainullin (Moscow),
Mihail Burlakov (Moscow), Moscow Duo (E. Grehov and A. Ushakov),
Ural
Duo (Natalia and Nikolay Ishchenko - Cheliabinsk), Raimondas
Sviackevicius (Lithuania), Konstantin
Ischenko (Cheliabinsk/Cologne, Germany), Milos Milivojevic (Serbia),
Fail Hazeyev-Magnitogorsk (Russia), Damir Sultanov (Kazakhstan),
Paris-Moscou
Duo (Domi Emorine & Roman Jbanov - France), Yuri Shishkin-Rostov
na Donu (Russia) and the Chamber orchestra "Klassika" (Cheliabinsk).
During the festival the First International
Ural Accordion Competition was also held. The international jury
included President of the Jury - Professor Radomir Tomic (Yugoslavia),
Elisabeth Glauber (Germany), Professor/Doctor Mihail Imhanitskyi
(Moscow), Professor Radjap Shaikhoudinov (Ufa-Bashkortostan, Russia),
Professor Nikolay Ishchenko (Cheliabinsk) and Professor Natalia
Ishchenko (Cheliabinsk).
A final Gala Concert was held in the Opera House,
where over 1,000 people heard performances by competition winners
and festival participants.
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Matti Rantanen Workshop - Austria
Contributed by Dr Herbert
Scheibenreif Manager of Friedrich
Lips Productions
Matti Rantanen (accordion professor at the Sibelius
Academy in Helsinki, Finland) held a most interesting workshop on
the "Contemporary literature and pedagogics of the accordion in
Finland" at the Music University of Graz in Austria from November
5th to 7th.
Matti Rantanen has appeared as a soloist and
in chamber ensembles at many international Festivals. He has cooperated
with many well-known composers and conductors and held numerous
master classes in different countries. In 1996 he was nominated
"Teacher of the Year" at the Sibelius Academy.
His well acclaimed concert program included
works by Valpola, Scarlatti, Tuomela, Mozart, Vuori, Bach, Rautavaara
and Merikonto.
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Traditional Annual Concert - Germany
Contributed by Winfried Haushalter
The First Cologne Accordion-Orchestra 1935 will
hold their traditional annual concert in the large concert hall
of the Cologne College of Music in Cologne on December 2nd. This
year, the orchestra will present its audience with a special "musical
delicacy".
Guest performers, the Russian ensemble Sabawa
"kidnaps" its listeners with melodies that are full of Russian soul
and romance. The ensemble won first place at the Russian folklore
Festival in Tula (1986) and the international folklore Grandprix
1991. They have also performed in the most famous concert halls
of Russia (Tchaikowsky concert hall and the Rossija concert hall
in Moscow).
The First Cologne Accordion-Orchestra (conducted
by Matthias Hennecke) will perform a varied program including "Peer
Gynt Suite No.1 (Grieg), "Hungarian Rhapsody No.2" (Liszt), "Krimipuzzle"
and "Serenata" (Anderson). The Youth Orchestra (conducted by Heike
Zapf) will play a variety of popular melodies.
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2001 Shanghai Accordion Examination
and Meeting - China
 Over
3,500 accordionists sat exams at the Shanghai Accordion Examination centre
during October. Following these exams, directors of the Shanghai Accordion
Association, accordion teachers from Teenager Center districts and counties
and leaders of the Shanghai Musicians Association held a meeting at the
Xinchang Resort in Zhejiang Province on November 1st and 2nd.
Since the inception of the Shanghai Accordion Examinations
in 1991, the board has organized 12 exams and promoted the accordion in
the Shanghai area. This has led to a dramatic improvement in accordion
teaching and playing. The meeting discussed the problem of a world decline
in people learning the accordion and gathered helpful ideas to encourage
accordion development.
Vice secretary Guo Qianghui (Shanghai Musicians Association)
praised the S.A.A.'s positive work in recent years. There are 22 different
music associations under S.M.A.'s direction, with the accordion association
being the most active.
Li
Cong, President of S.A.A. believes the meeting initiated positive
ideas which will help the future of the accordion in this area.
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Accordions Worldwide 5th Anniversary
Celebrations
"Flashback - 5 Years Ago"
Air New Zealand Orchestra Tours Europe
The Air
New Zealand Accordion Orchestra made their 9th International
Goodwill Concert tour to Europe during August & September, 1996.
During the tour the orchestra had a "fan club" which grew from concert
to concert! For further details see Past
News
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www.MusicForAccordion.com New Works
Released
This week, MusicForAccordion.com
is releasing new works by Wallace
Liggett and Tom
Collins. These are the first works ever published by these accordionists
and it is the aim of the site to try and have new composers works released
each week if possible.
Composers and arrangers are reminded that MusicForAccordion.com
site is now offering a special incentive to accordion composers and arrangers
to typeset their music free of charge. This incentive is for a limited
time only and limited to 100 new works. Each composer can provide up to
5 works and each work should not exceed 7 pages of A4 size. For further
information see MusicForAccordion.com
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Florida Accordion "Smash" - USA
 Contributed
by Karen Adam
The Florida
Accordion "Smash" festival and concert will take place at the
"Knights of Columbus" in Orlando, Florida on December 1st. The event
will feature accordionist Nina Slyusar-Wegmann, winner of the Virtuoso
Entertainment Category at the 2001 ATG
International Competition and Festival in San Antonio. Other
performers include Boris Veksler, Maricarmen Vasquez, Jessica Lei,
Jim Bubaloni,
Rita Davidson, Andy Bakke, James Wadowick, Dale Haag, Walter Von
Ryik, Loni LeGrand and many more. There will also be a festival
band conducted by Linda Soley Reed (Vice President of the American
Accordionists Association).
Workshops will also be held, including "Eugene
Ettore Workshop" by Rita Davidson, "The Art of Practice" by Jim
Bubaloni and "Accordion Display" by John Gaunt from Accordions
and Keyboards. For further details email: ibqueen@bellsouth.net
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New Sites/Updated Sites
www.victorprieto.net
Information on accordionist Victor Prieto, who has merged classical
music with Jazz and Gallician music while developing the taste for
a unique style, which led to the invention of a new technique (Chord
approach on both hands).
www.beltuna.com/diModugno.htm
Updated contact information for Italian accordionist Pino Di Modugno
www.musicaneltempo.it
Updated information on accordionist Gianluca Bibiani.
www.accordions.com/contet
Updated information on future concert dates by French accordionist
Pascal Contet
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Contributed
by 
The
Special
guests Councillor Mrs Kingston and consort, and Marco Galeazzi (
The
event was so successful that over 200 people have already confirmed
bookings for next year's event, which will be held from November
17th to 20th. For further details email: 
Contributed
by Sandra Kleizaite 
Contributed
by Rolf E. Wittich
Contributed
by 
Accordionist
Finnish
group Värttinä (which includes accordionist Markku Lepistö) will
perform two concerts at the Todos os Cantos do Mundo Festival in
Sao Paulo on November 24th and 25th. The group will play "Maa ei
kerro" (The Earth Won't Tell) from the album "Vihma", "Kylä vuotti
uutta kuuta" (The Village Awaits for the New Moon) from the album
"Seleniko" and "Käppee" from the album "Vihma". They will also perform
"Maamo" (from the album "Aitara") with popular Brazilian artist
Zeca Baleiro. For further details email: 
Contributed
by Carlo Fortunato
Accordion
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