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Arriving Soon International
Festival of Accordion Music, Wroclaw - Poland
Contributed by Rob
Howard
Sponsored
jointly by the regional government of Lower Silesia and the Austrian
Consulate in Krakow, the first International Festival of Accordion
Music takes place in Wroclaw from January 6th to 8th 2006.
The festival music covers everything from Baroque to Jazz, and there
will be will be two categories of competition: for soloists and for
chamber ensembles and accordion orchestras. The competitions are open
to amateur and professional musicians, and there are no age limitations.
A special guest of the festival will be Yurij Shyshkin (Russia) -
the winner of numerous international accordion competitions: Klingenthal
(Germany 1988), Kansas City (USA - 1990), and Castelfidardo
(Italy - 1991). The Festival Director is Olexiy Suslov.
Moldovan-born
accordionist Stas
Venglevski, now resident in the USA, is to perform the following
concerts:-
October 14th, 7.30pm - Russian Seasons in Minnesota - 5th Annual Festival
'Ship of Desire', at the O'Shaughnessy Auditorium, St Catherine's
College, St Paul, Minnesota.
October 20th, UWM - Milwaukie, Wisconsin.
November 12th - Classic Tango Show, with The Stas Venglevski Tango
Ensemble and vocalist Laura Crotte at the Cedarburg Cultural Center,
Cedarburg, Wisconsin.
November 21st - Arizona Accordion Club, Phoenix, Arizona, with jazz
accordionist John SimkusRussian.
Lisa-Lee
Leslie's English Concert Tour, London - UK
Contributed by Rob
Howard
Accordionist
Lisa-Lee Leslie has just completed a highly successful long run as
an actor and musician in a modernised version of William Shakespeare's
play 'As you like it', at the Wyndhams theatre in London's West End,
alongside actress Sienna Miller. The historic play was updated and
set in 1940s France, featuring an original score for accordion.
Lisa will shortly be undertaking a short UK tour of accordion clubs,
and her tour itinerary to date is as follows:-
November 2nd - Fairtykes Accordion Club - Hornchurch, Essex
16th - Leyland Accordion Club, Lancashire
18th -
'Accordion Workshop Group', 7.30pm, Stainton Memorial Hall, Stainton,
Middlesborough; email thomasbaines@tiscali.co.uk November 19th - Skipton Town Hall, North Yorkshire, 7.30pm -
also featuring The Craven Orchestra and accordionist Rob Thorn; email
r.smith@ukaccordions.com November 22nd - Stockport Accordion Club, 8pm; email Rob
Howard: robaccord5@hotmail.com
Any other
accordion clubs or societies interested in booking Lisa-Lee on this
tour please email: accordionfriends@aol.com
Organist/TV &
Radio Host Jon Hammond will be on hand to host Music China Warm Up
Party on October 18th at 9pm, commemorating the beginning of 4th Music
China together with Music Director Danny Woody and Band plus very
special guests. Jon Hammond is a member of the American Federation
of Musicians Union Local 802 and host and producer of the radio and
television shows HammondCast and Jon Hammond Show for 22 years on
Time Warner TV and Infinity Broadcasting Network.
Members of Media and Exhibitors of Music China will be joining Mr.
Hammond and Mr. Woody for cocktails and live music in the warm and
friendly atmosphere of the Portman Ritz - Carlton Jazz Bar to meet
and greet the international participants of Music China international
trade show event.
The Music China Warm Up Party event will be carried on a live MULTICAST
courtesy of Apple Computers and sponsors: Hammond Suzuki, CASIO, Superlux
and Portman Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
Francesco
Pennese's Debut CD, Lanciano - Italy
Contributed by Holda
Paoletti-Kampl
Young
accordionist Francesco Pennese, a student of Renzo
Ruggieri, has just released his first CD, titled 'Io e la mia
Fisarmonica'. The music includes everything from Radetsky to Zez Confrey,
and Rimsky Korsakov to popular Italian pieces. The CD is published
by Musicomania.
Salvatore
Cauteruccio Concert, Scalea - Italy Contributed
by Holda
Paoletti-Kampl
The
final concert in a summer season at the Communal Library of Scalea,
in the Southern Italy, featured a performance by accordionist Salvatore
Cauteruccio, with Pietro Perrone (violin) and Enzo Campagna (guitar).
New
World Records has recently released a two CD, one hour and forty minute
chamber opera: 'The Floating Box', by Jason Kao Hwang. It traces the
history of Chinese immigrants and their settling in New York's Chinatown.
The libretto is by Catherine Filloux. The opera features an elaborate
accordion part performed by William
Schimmel.
A recent
review in the International Record Review states: "most inspired
of all is his (Hwang's) use of the accordion to provide the harmonic
filling: and in this he is served by the admirable William Schimmel,
whose subtlety is in itself one of the highlights of the recording."
Jason Kao
Huang worked closely with Schimmel in developing this intricate part
and Mr. Huang uses it as a bridge between his scoring for western
instruments as well as traditional Chinese instruments such as the
erhu and the pipa. The International Record Review lists Schimmel
as a character in the opera along with the singers. 'The Floating
Box' had its world premiere in 2001 at Asia Society in New York. Juan
Carlos Rivas conducted both the premiere and the recording.
Veli
Kujala's recital at Usedomer Musikfestival - Germany
Contributed
by Rob
Howard
The
Finnish concert accordionist Veli Kujala gave a solo recital on September
26th featuring exclusively Finnish and German contemporary works.
The recital was a part of the internationally respected Usedomer Musikfestival,
located in the northern Germany. His program included compositions
by Kalevi Aho, Sampo Haapamäki, Klaus Huber, György Ligeti,
Magnus Lindberg, Jukka Tiensuu, Vesa Valkama and Helmut Zapf.
A special feature was the succesful premiere performance of Pasi Lyytikäinen's
new composition 'Vuo'. This two hour concert was very positively reviewed
in the newspapers Nordkurier and Ostsee-Zeitung: "Unbelievable
how sophisticated he mastered the versatile demands of the compositions"
and "Veli Kujala belongs to the absolute top class of accordionists."
'Accordions
of the World' Concerts, Brescia - Italy
Contributed by Holda
Paoletti-Kampl
A
series of concerts at the Theater of San Giovanni in Brescia, organised
by Davide Bonetti, includes the following:-
October 15th, at 9.30pm - tango, musette and jazz performed by Ermes
Pirlo (accordion), Fabrizio Zappamilio (guitar), Giulio Corini (bass)
and Emanuele Maniscalco (drums).
October 22nd, at 9.30pm - 'Etnikos - A Musical Journey from East to
West', featuring Davide Bonetti (accordion), Beppe Gioacchini (percussion)
and Marco Tiraboschi (oud, baglama, bouzuki and guitar).
October 29th, at 9.30pm - The Warsaw Duo, Grzergorz Toporowski (accordion)
and Radoskav Topotowski (accordion) perform music from Poland and
many other countries. Also on October 29th, from 9.30am to 12noon,
and 3pm to 6pm, Davide Bonetti is to lead a day of accordion activities.
Mazaika
Duo in Concert, Ormskirk - UK
Contributed by Rob
Howard
The
Mazaika Duo - Igor Outkine (accordion) and Sarah Harrison (violin)
perform a concert of Russian and Gypsy music plus Hot Club Jazz at
The Beaufort Hotel, Burscough, Ormskirk, Lancashire on November 2nd,
at 8.30pm. Andy Mackenzie (guitar) and Paul Roberts (double bass)
will accompany the duo.
Igor Outkine (Russia) studied classical accordion in Elektrostal's
music college and traditional singing in Gnessin Institute in Moscow.
He performed extensively with top folk groups and with the Rozovsky
Theatre of Moscow. He came to London in 1990 with the gypsy band Loyko
and has continued to perform the music of his homeland in varies venues.
He is also in demand for film and recording sessions (he has played
on several major film soundtracks) and has appeared several times
on UK television. Igor's vocal and instrumental repertoire covers
an extremely wide range of music such as Classical and Opera, Neapolitan
song, Argentinean and Russian Tango, Jazz and Pop.
Martin
Lubenov Orchestra Concerts, Vienna - Austria
Contributed by Rob
Howard
Martin
Lubenov is one of the top Balkan accordionists. He has developed a
style of Balkan traditional music that incorporates swing, modern
jazz, tango nuevo, salsa and musette. His influence on Balkan music
has been compared to the contributions of Astor Piazzolla to tango
and Richard Galliano to musette. Originally from Bulgaria, Martin
Lubenov was trained in both classical music and jazz before moving
to Vienna in 2000. In Vienna he founded the Martin Lubenov Orkestar,
which includes many of the best traditional musicians from Bulgaria.
The Martin
Lubenov Orkestar is in concert as follows:-
September 30th - Technisches Museum, Festival Wean Hean, Vienna
October 1st - Foyer des Stadtsaals, Vöcklabruck
4th - Jazzta Prasta Neumarkt am Wallersee, Gasthof Gerbl
23rd - Black Box Balkan Festival, Pfefferberg, Berlin
Viacheslav
Semionov (accordion) and Natalie Semionov (domra), known as the
Duo Semionov, will perform at Waldmüllerzentrum, 1100 Wien, Hasengasse
38, on November 21st at 7pm. The concert is organised by Hermi Kaleta.
Yehuda
Oppenheimer releases 2 new grade 3 arrangements 'Swiss
Dance', 'Jugoslavian
Dance'. Samples of the music are available online. The music is
in eSheet format, able to be emailed to your computer. Purchase with
credit card.