Festival
Internacional de Música de Acordeón, Wroclaw - Polonia
Información por Rob
Howard
Patrocinado
gentilmente por el gobierno regional de la baja Silesia y el consulado
Austriaco en Cracovia, el Primer Festival Internacional de Música
de Acordeón tendrá lugar en Wroclaw del 6 al 8 de Enero
de 2006. El festival musical cubre todos los ámbitos del Barroco
al Jazz y habrá dos categorías de competición,
para solistas y conjuntos de cámara y orquestas de acordeón.
El concurso está abierto a aficionados y músicos profesionales
y no hay límite de edad.
El artista
invitado del festival será Yuryj Shyshkin (Rusia) ganador de
muchos concursos de acordeón internacionales como Klingenthal
(Alemania 1988), Kansas City (EEUU 1990) y Castelfidardo
(Italia 1991). El director de Festival es Olexiy Suslov.
El
acordeonista nacido en Moldavia Stas
Venglevski, residente ahora en Estados Unidos va a ofrecer los
siguientes conciertos:
14 octubre, 19,30 horas: Russian Seasons en Minesota, 5º Festival
Anual "Ship of Desire" en el Auditorio O´Shaughnessy,
Universidad de Santa Catarina, St Paul, Minnesota
20 octubre- UWM - Milwaukie, Wisconsin
21 Noviembre- Espectáculo de Tango clásico, con el Conjunto
de Tango de Stas Venglevski y la cantante Laura Crotte en el Centro
Cultural Cedarburg, Cedarburg, Wisconsin
21 Noviembre, Club de acordeón de Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona
con el acordeonista de jazz John Simkus
Gira
de Conciertos inglesa de Lisa-Lee Leslie , Londres - Reino Unido
Información
por Rob
Howard
La
acordeonista Lisa-Lee Leslie acaba de completar una exitosa y larga
carrera como actriz y música en la versión moderna de
la obra de William Shakespeare "As you like it" en el teatro
Wyndhams en de Londres. La obra fue actualizada e interpretada en
Francia en 1940 presentando una partitura original para acordeón.
Lisa va a realizar una corta gira por los clubs de acordeón
ingleses con las siguientes fechas en noviembre:
2- Fairtykes Accordion Club, Essex
16- Leyland Accordion Club, Lancashire
18- Accordion Workshop Group, Stainton email: thomasbaines@tiscali.co.uk
19-Skipton Town Hall, North Yorkshire con la orquesta Craven y el
acordeonista Rob Thorn , email: r.smith@ukaccordions.com
22- Stockport Accordion Club, email de Rob
Howard: robaccord5@hotmail.com
Otros clubs de acordeón o sociedades interesados en contratar
a Lisa-Lee en esta gira contactar con : accordionfriends@aol.com
Fiesta
de Inauguración de Music China, Shanghai - China
Información por Holda
Paoletti-Kampl
El
organista y presentador de Televisión y Radio Jon Hammond está
preparando una fiesta de calentamiento del Music China para el día
18 de octubre a las 21,00 horas, conmemorando el principio del 4º
Music China junto con el director musical Danny Woody y la orquesta
como artistas invitados. Jon Hammond es miembro de la Federación
americana de músicos Union Local 802 y presentador y productor
de los programas de televisión HammondCast y el programa de
Jon Hammond durante 22 años en la Televisión Time Warner
e Infinity Boradcastin Network.
Los miembros de la prensa y los expositores de Music China acompañarán
a Hammond y Woody en el cocktail de bienvenida con música en
directo en un agradable ambiente en el Protman Ritz, Bar Carlton Jazz
donde se reunirán con los participantes internacionales de
esta feria de muestras Music China. Esta fiesta contará con
la más alta tecnología gracias a la cortesía
de Ordenadores Apple y los patrocinadores: Hammond Suzuki, Casio,
Superlux y Portman Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
Primer
CD de Francesco Pennese - Lanciano - Italia
Información de Holda
Paoletti-Kampl
El
joven acordeonista Francesco Pennese, estudiante de Renzo
Ruggieri, acaba de presentar su primer CD titulado "Yo y
mi acordeón". LA música incluye de todo desde Radetsky
a Zez Confrey, Rimsky Korsakov y música popular italiana. El
CD ha sido publicado por Musicomanía.
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.
'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.
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.