В городе Канзас-сити прошёл успешный концерт-презентация альбома группы “Vivant!”. В составе этого ансамбля различные инструменты: клавишные, ударные и духовые. Но приоритет отдан аккордеону, вокруг которого сконцентрировано творчество коллектива.
Деятельность музыкантов сфокусирована на том, чтобы раскрыть и показать уникальные разносторонние возможности аккордеона, на котором может быть исполнена музыка самых разнообразных стилей и направлений. Они успешно демонстрируют это, выступая с программами из произведений Кэрен Фремар (Karen Fremar), а также различных транскрипций.
Участники ансамбля:
Janne Silfverberg, Gail Overly, Erica VandeVoort, Karen Fremar, Julie Silfverberg, Dee Siglar и Sarrah Cantrell.
Баянист из Белоруссии Владислав Плиговка проведёт мастер-классы в Сиднее, Австралия, 9-10 июня 2008 г.
Будучи лауреатом двух престижных международных конкурсов (в Киеве и Клингентале), Владислав является ярким артистом, известным не только в своей стране, но и за рубежом.
К участию в мастер-классах приглашаются все желающие. Заявки на участие принимаются до 1 мая по эл.почте: tanialm@optusnet.com.au
Мика Вяюрюнен (Mika Väyrynen) выступит с премьерой последнего произведения А.Кусякова – Лондон, Великобритания.
14 апреля 2008 г., в Королевской Академии Музыки (Лондон) состоится концерт финского баяниста Мики Вяюрюнена, на котором будет исполнена долгожданная мировая премьера Сонаты№7 «Мистериум» Анатолия Кусякова.
Эта соната – последнее произведение композитора, скончавшегося 11 июля 2007 года, и оно посвящено Мике Вяюрюнену.
В Лондоне Мика также проведет мастер-классы для студентов Королевской Академии Музыки. Из Лондона он отправится в Париж, где 16 и 17 апреля также выступит с мастер-классами в Парижской консерватории (Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique), по приглашению Макса Боннэ (Max Bonnay).
ATG объявляет имена участников ежегодного фестиваля – Нэшвилл, США
С 12 по 15 июня 2008 г. в Нэшвилле (США) пройдет 68-й ежегодный международный конкурс-фестиваль, организуемый Гильдией Аккордеонистов и Педагогов (Annual Accordionists and Teachers Guild – ATG). Местом проведения фестиваля станет отель Престон (Hotel Preston at 733 Briley Parkway, Nashville).
В этом году на фестивале будет представлено множество замечательных артистов из США, России и Новой Зеландии. В числе приглашённых гостей – выдающийся российский аккордеонист Александр Ширунов (Alexander Shirunov); в прошлом чемпион ATG Джефф Лисенби (Jeff Lisenby); джазовый аккордеонист из Сиэтла Ален Сандерс (Murl Allen Sanders); а также чемпион Новой Зеландии Грейсон Мейсфилд
Помимо концертов, в рамках фестиваля также пройдут семинары, мастер-классы, другие музыкальные и общественные мероприятия.
Jean-Louis Noton and Nono Venturini will give a concert on a para glider at the ski-resort La Plagne in France on Friday the 18th of April. They are going to fly above mountain resort "Plagne 2000" and will play with an HF audio system for "l'apérot ski".....
The Albertbridge Accordion Band was formed on August 9th 1957, and it’s first members were seven members of the Boys Brigade who had reached 18 years of age, the leaving age, and who did not want to lose touch with each other. This group formed an accordion band, and one of them, Billy Cummings, has been the Treasurer since the very beginning. Eventually the band admitted female accordionists.
In Northern Ireland there is a long established tradition of bands that march through the streets on parades, and some of these are accordion bands. These bands wear uniforms, and include drummers in their ranks. The Albertbridge Accordion Band takes part in the annual Orange Day Parade on July 12th, and other parades and festivals linked to the Ulster Loyalist tradition.
The Albertbridge Accordion Band has high standards of performance and dress, but also enjoys playing to the crowds, and its members have a sense of humour.
The band’s website notes: “We have had many laughs with the funny things that happened to us, such as marching into the wrong street as the band went on up the road, getting flags caught in trees, competing with the Duke of York Pipe Band who were practising in the room upstairs, and we even had a mouse eat the Canadian flag”.
The Accordion Festival in Samara, a large city of European Russia, situated 2,600 km to the south of Moscow, took place from March 26th to 30th.
Amongst the Russian classical players were some French guest performers, including Alain Musichini with his jazz quartet and Joao Frade from Portugal, who were greeted very enthusiastically.
Last year Eric Bouvelle was a guest artist in this big festival organized by Sergueï Voitenko, the leader of the group BAYAN MIX, that popularises the classical music manner disco with dancers, video on screens plasma, light games being delirious etc.
The Russians are becoming much more interested in French music, players and instruments, such as those made by Cavagnolo, and the different styles of music they are performing.
Leading Scottish accordionist Tom Alexander, from Glasgow, goes on a short tour of English accordion clubs in mid-April. Tom Alexander is best known as half of Scottish show business legends The Alexander Brothers. The tour dates include:
April 11th – Club Accord, Birmingham
12th – Soar Valley Accordion Club, Leicester
15th – North Staffs AC
16th, 8pm – Stockport Accordion Club
Domi Emorine and Roman Jbanov have each won numerous accordion competitions, including world championships. In 1997 they began to perform together, and their styles complemented each other so well they formed the Paris-Moscow Duo, and have visited Canada, China, Denmark, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Spain, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland and the UK. They often lead master classes in addition to concert performances, and in 2007 celebrate ten years together.
The Duo’s future dates include:
April 19th and 20th – concerts in the Salle du Foyer, Marcigny, Saône-et-Loire; email: ot.marcigny-semur@wanadoo.fr
May 9th to 13th – concerts and master classes at ‘Accordions International 2008’, Blackpool, UK. Also appearing Giancarlo Caporilli (Italy), Gary Blair, Romano Viazzani, Harry Hussey, Bert Santilly and Stefan Andrusyschyn, (UK); email: heather@accordions.karoo.co.uk
May 23rd and 24th – festival, Drancy, France
July 11th – festival, St Jeannet, France
July 18th to 20th – festival, Alcobaca, Portugal
August 9th to 14th – festival, La Bourboule, France
After its successful tour in 2007 TRIO P.S.P. (Perez-Sabatier-Pedreira) will be coming to Austria again. Ciro Perez performed with the big names of the ‘Tango’ Music during many years in Buenos Aires. Norberto Pedreira is a key ‘avant-garde’ Latin musician in the mix of the rhythms of the Latin-American continent. William Sabatier has an amazing knowledge and passion for the ‘Tanguera’ Culture. Since his teens, he has been spending his time with the best European Tango musicians.
Each of them has a very strong personality but once they put all their energy together, they become as ‘one’. They are on the same page, speak the same language called ‘Tango’ and above all, they have the same concept on how they should visualize, read, approach it. The magic and the deep connexion between Ciro, William and Norberto allows them to share intense and spontaneous moments of music. We can call them ‘Real Tangueros’.
William Sabatier - bandoneon is a Frenchman, Ciro Perez and Norberto Pedreira were born in Argentina, all three of them are living in Paris, France.
The tour dates will be as follows:
April 17th, 7pm - Rehab-Zentrum, Bad Tatzmannsdorf, Austria
18th, 8pm - Cult-beisl-restaurant, Wimpassing
19th, 8pm - Haus am Ring, Bad Leonfelden
21st, 8pm - LGV-Saal, Leibnitz
22nd, 8pm - Sargfabrik, Vienna
24th, 8.30pm - Völkermarkt, Step
25th, 8pm - Jazz-Keller, Schloss Porcia, Spittal / Drau
27th, 8pm - Freie Bühne Mayer, Mödling
Pearl Fawcett-Adriano is the guest artiste at Guildford Accordion Club on Friday April 18th, doors open at 7pm. The concert takes place at The Village Hall, Ripley, near Guildford, Surrey.
Spanish accordionist Ferran Martinez, performing a program on the Russian Bayan that includes music by C.Oudrid, A.Piazzolla, J.S.Bach, I.Albéniz and F.Tárrega, as follows:
April 19th – ‘La caixa’, Caldes de Montbui, Barcelona
27th - ‘La caixa’, Mataro, Barcelona
Accordionist Raimondas Sviackevicius and cellist Mindaugas Backus are very active promoters of contemporary Lithuanian music. They often perform together, work as soloists, as a trio with violinist Vytautas Mikeliunas, or with other groups.
The duo will tour Poland in April, promoting new works by Lithuanian composers Bronius Kutavicius, Jurgita Miezelyte, Anatolijus Senderovas, including a world premiere of Juste Janulyte’s work ‘Aria’. The duo’s concert dates include:
April 18th - festival in Sanok, Poland
20th - Miejski Dom Kultury music and poetry festival, Czechowice-Dziedzice
21st - Bielsko-Biala
22nd - ‘Musica moderna’ concert cycle, Academy of Music, Lodz
23rd - W.Lutoslawski's Forum for Contemporary Music, Lublin
The Craven Accordion Orchestra under the Musical Direction of Harry Hinchcliffe is delighted to be performing for the second year in succession in the Idyllic North Yorkshire town of Settle on 12th April 2008 at 7-30 pm.
The Concert to be held in Settle Parish Church will feature Soloists from local schools from the Settle area. The orchestra will be performing a varied repertoire of music ranging from popular classics such as Granada by Lara, to Theme from Titanic "My Heart Will Go On", swinging along to Little Boogie and no concert would complete without a Traditional Tyrolean Polka/March.
The United States National Accordion News has been updated to the April edition. The Feature Review in April offers a summary of the recent National Accordion Association Convention held in Texas.
MusicForAccordion.com (MFA) Celebrates 1,000th eSheet Publication. The e-sheet music publication section is celebrating a major milestone publishing its 1,000th piece of music. MusicForAccordion.com has developed into an extensive and popular online store containing accordion music of all levels and styles available as downloadable .pdf files emailed to the client who pay using the secure bank server credit card payment system.
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Концерт и презентация диска ансамбля “Vivant!” – Канзас-сити, США
Деятельность музыкантов сфокусирована на том, чтобы раскрыть и показать уникальные разносторонние возможности аккордеона, на котором может быть исполнена музыка самых разнообразных стилей и направлений. Они успешно демонстрируют это, выступая с программами из произведений Кэрен Фремар (Karen Fremar), а также различных транскрипций.
Баянист из Белоруссии Владислав Плиговка проведёт мастер-классы в Сиднее, Австралия, 9-10 июня 2008 г. 
14 апреля 2008 г., в Королевской Академии Музыки (Лондон) состоится концерт финского баяниста Мики Вяюрюнена, на котором будет исполнена долгожданная мировая премьера Сонаты№7 «Мистериум» 
ATG
Помимо концертов, в рамках фестиваля также пройдут семинары, мастер-классы, другие музыкальные и общественные мероприятия.
The Albertbridge Accordion Band was formed on August 9th 1957, and it’s first members were seven members of the Boys Brigade who had reached 18 years of age, the leaving age, and who did not want to lose touch with each other. This group formed an accordion band, and one of them, Billy Cummings, has been the Treasurer since the very beginning. Eventually the band admitted female accordionists.
The Accordion Festival in Samara, a large city of European Russia, situated 2,600 km to the south of Moscow, took place from March 26th to 30th.
Leading Scottish accordionist Tom Alexander, from Glasgow, goes on a short tour of English accordion clubs in mid-April. Tom Alexander is best known as half of Scottish show business legends The Alexander Brothers. The tour dates include:
Domi Emorine and Roman Jbanov have each won numerous accordion competitions, including world championships. In 1997 they began to perform together, and their styles complemented each other so well they formed the 
After its successful tour in 2007 TRIO P.S.P. (Perez-Sabatier-Pedreira) will be coming to Austria again. Ciro Perez performed with the big names of the ‘Tango’ Music during many years in Buenos Aires. Norberto Pedreira is a key ‘avant-garde’ Latin musician in the mix of the rhythms of the Latin-American continent. William Sabatier has an amazing knowledge and passion for the ‘Tanguera’ Culture. Since his teens, he has been spending his time with the best European Tango musicians.
William Sabatier - bandoneon is a Frenchman, Ciro Perez and Norberto Pedreira were born in Argentina, all three of them are living in Paris, France.
Pearl Fawcett-Adriano
Ferran Martinez Concerts, Barcelona – Spain
Café Accordion Orchestra performs an eclectic mix of vintage Swing, Latin, American, and French Café Music. 
Accordionist 
Slovenian accordionist Marko Hatlak performs in concert on Monday April 14th, 8pm, at Volksbad Jena, Knebelstraße 10, 07743 Jena, Germany. 
