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Frankfurt volverá a convertirse en la principal cita para la industria musical durante los próximos días del 12 al 15 de Marzo. Desde hace más de 25 años el “Musikmesse” de Frankfurt ha sido la principal feria internacional de instrumentos musicales.
En el Musikmesse se darán cita una selección de alrededor de 30.000 instrumentos musicales y productos que abarcan desde guitarras eléctricas , software musical o instrumentos clásicos. Todo ello complementado con un importante programa de eventos y shows, conciertos, seminarios y entregas de premios. Actuaciones en directo en tres escenarios: el acústico, el Agora y el Musikbiz. Charlas, conferencias, presentaciones, jams y música para niños.
La sección dedicada al acordeón se encontrará en el Hall 3.1., donde la mayotia de los fabricantes italianos y de otros lugares del mundo se darán cita para exibir sus productos y donde se darán cita muchos artistas de renombre. Una cita que no se puede dejar pasar.
Nuestra sección de noticias ofrecerá un completo reportaje sobre el Musikmesse. .
Las pruebas de selección para candidatos franceses a la Copa Mundial CIA y el Trofeo mundial CMA se desarrollarán el próximo 20 de Julio en La Selle sur le Bied, a 100 kms al sur de Paris.
Para simplificar estos trámites se procederá a hacer una prueba única para estas dos competiciones internacionales del más alto nivel. Las pruebas estarán organizadas por Frédéric Deschamps (fotografía de la izquierda).
Más información en las respectivas páginas web de ambas asociaciones:
Informacion a cargo de Norman Seaton, President NAA
La convención de la Asociación Nacional de Acordeón / National
Accordion Association (NAA) 2008 se celebrará en el Hotel Richardson de Dallas (Texas) en las próximas fechas del 13 al 15 de Marzo. Dicho evento incluye un programa con conciertos, bailes, seminarios y una Orquesta del Festival. Igualmente se ha organizado actividades paralelas como la organización de una tómbola que tendrá como premio, un acordeón Baffetti donado por el Golden Age Accordion,, ubicado en Dallas.
La convención NAA de este año incluye entre sus seminarios un taller dedicado a: “¡Cómo entretener con un acordeón!”
Se podrán escuchar actuaciones de invitados como Tony Lovello, Sylvia Marie, Nick Ballarini,
Jim Rommel, Accordion All-Stars, Accordion Dance Orchestra,
Brave Combo, Texas Polka Cruisers, Harold Strand and the
Polka Cruise, Dee
Langley (foto), Janne Silfverberg, Gail Overly, Erica
VandeVoort, Karen
Fremar, Julie
Silfverberg, Dee Siglar & Sarrah Cantrell. Un concierto con los MECA Party involves: Shelia Lee (Wijnberg
and Witte), Carol & Debra's 'Hank Williams' Gospel
Sing-a-Long! Zydeco Stingrays, MECA: Debra's Accordion
Band, Tangos de Tom Visentin, Tex/Mex música con Pancho
Martinez & Eleanor Martinez, música de baile polaca con Gene Neyer.
Una feria commercial con las siguientes marcas y firmas: Golden Age Accordions, Roland
Accordion Company, Accordion-O-Rama,
Ballarini / Petosa, Mel Bay Publishing Company, Kohl Music
Company, Accordion Embroidery de Carol Willenberg, Accordion
Stuff - Debra Peters, and MECA.
El fallecido acordeonista y principal lider de la banda de Polka al estilo Cleveland Johnny Vadnal falleció el pasado 25 de Febrero a la edad de 84 años. Vadnal fue el primer lider de una banda de polkas en tener su propio show televisivo semanal, actuando cada domingo en el canal 5 WEWS desde 1949 a 1961. En 1949, Vadnal ganó el premio “Rey de la Polka en Cleveland” a través de una votación efectuada en una radio local.
ía un sonido original y único gracias a su estilo y talento individual al acordeón que considerado por muchos moderno y adelantado a su tiempo. Basada y enraizada en las eslovenas , la música de Vadnal's era apreciada igualmente por las audiencias relacionadas con la música étnica.
Compositor prolífico, Vadnal nos ha dejado clásicos de la Polka como “Yes, My Dear”, “No Beer on Sunday”, “Wayside Polka”, y muchas otras. Fue admitido en la “Polka Hall of Fame” en 1987.
Performance of 'Winterreise', Kristiandsand
- Norway
Informacion a cargo de Jörgen Sundeqvist
On
February 14th the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, conducted
by Rolf Gupta, and featuring Swedish accordionist Jörgen
Sundeqvist and German tenor, Lothar Odinius, performed
a modern interpretation by Hans Zender of Franz Schubert`s
'Winterreise'.
Hans Zender's arrangement of Franz Schubert`s song cycle
'Winterreise' is a highly praised work where Hans Zender
produces a completely new, modern and unique version of
Schubert`s work, originally written for written for piano
and orchestra. Zender`s version is much more than just
orchestrating the piano part. Zender expands upon it, deconstructs
it, and weaves new intros, outros, and newly composed counterpoints
into the mix. Zender gives the music a new dimension and
colour.
The
accordion has a very important part in the orchestra, which
also includes 4 percussionists, 3 wind machines, 3 harmonicas,
harp, guitar as well as the traditional strings, woodwind
and brass instruments.
Hans Zender (born 1936) is one of Germany's leading composers
and conductors, and has written for orchestras, voice,
and many instruments, including the accordion.
Presentation of Accordion in the Children's
TV show 'Pet plus' - Macedonia
Contributed by Anica Karakutovska
Last Friday, the accordion trio: Aleksandar Kolovski, Boban
Peric and Bojan Volcevski, together with their professor
Zorica Karakutovska, were guests on the children's television
show 'Five plus' on the TV channel TELMA.
'Five plus' is educational programme for children, part
of the public educative campaigns for raising the awareness
of protecting the environment. With the host Mina and the
dog Petko as moderator this show provides a lot of useful
information from different fields with many very interesting
moments.
Friday's episode presented and promoted the accordion,
and was very well received by all in the auditorium, including
the youngest.
1st Accords des Montagnes Festival, La
Bresse - France
The bars and restaurants rang to the sound of accordions
during the week long Accords des Montagnes Festival, providing
great entertainment for listeners and dancers. Accordion
artistes performing everywhere included the colourful Jean-Louis
Noton, Jean-Marc Torchy, Frédéric Buch,
Sylvie Pulles, Franck Villain, Denys Gigot, Magali etc
Virtuoso
accordionists Peter
& Mady Soave lead workshops and perform in concert,
from February 28th until March 1st at the Queenswood Center,
2494 Arbutus Road, Victoria, BC.
The workshops cover such topics as finger technique, bellows
technique, accompanying other musicians, and the music
of Astor Piazzolla.
On March 1st, 7pm, Peter and Mady Soave will perform in
concert.
Friday
29th February at the Music School "Bonamici"
in Pisa at 5.30pm there is a meeting with Massimo
Signorni, composer of: "five compositions-Stile
Bachiano William/Edition ETS 2007" and "the free-reed
instruments/Edition IL CAMPANO 2007" .
That will be followed by an evening concert at 9.15 pm
"Tango" by Piazzolla with Patrizia Angeloni (accordion)
and Sabrina Paoli (pianoforte). Also present will be Andrea
Pellegrini, Director of the Music School "Bonamici".
On Sunday the 2nd March Massimo Signorini will be at the
Conservatorio Statale L. Cherubini in Florenze
at 5 pm meeting with the author of the volumes "Analisi
strutturale di "WINTER SEEDS of Klaus Huber and Semiografia
of the accordion" by Massimo Signorini Edition IL
CAMPANO, 2007. Lecturer is Massimo Signorini, and accordionist
tutor Ivano Battiston of the Conservatorio Statale L.
Cherubini di Firenze.
The
34th National Association of Accordion and Fiddle Clubs
Championships, previously held in Musselburgh, takes place
on March 1st, from 9am, at the Dunblane Hydro Hotel, Dunblane,
Scotland.
The accordion adjudicators include Gary Blair, Djordje
Gajic (classical Accordion), John Burns and Gordon Shand
(traditional accordion), Sandy Lindsay (button accordion).
In
the evening, from 6.15 to 8.15pm, there will be a concert
featuring the festival prizewinners, and from 9pm to 12.30am
there will be a dance featuring the Neil MacEachern Scottish
Dance Band.
The Torneo Internazionale di Musica is an international
competition for singers and instrumentalists, which includes
a section for accordion.
The TIM consists of 4 Rounds: Audition, Qualifying Concert,
Semi-final and Final. Candidates who passed the 2007 pre-selection
have direct access to the second or third round. Past TIM
winners and other international competitions winners may
apply to skip the first rounds when applying.
The qualifying contests are presently taking place in various
European cities, including Cologne, Como, Florence, Madrid,
Paris, Rome, Verona and Zaragoza. The semi-final and final
rounds will take place in Verona from June 2nd to 9th 2008.
Composer and accordionist Howard Skempton performs his
own compositions and other works of his choice in concert
at the Royal Academy of Music, London, on March 4th, 6pm.
The program includes two solo works by Skempton, 'Twin
Set and Pearls', 'Musette'. 'May Pole' - open score for
guitar, accordion and piano, and 'Semi'-Attached' - for
guitar and accordion.
The concert will be in the David Josefowitz Recital Hall.
Admission is free
The
Amor Quintet will perform in an Astor Piazzolla Gala Concert
on March 8th, 7.30pm, at St Stephen's Church, Gloucester
Road, London SW7 4RL. The programme includes: 'Libertango',
'Milonga Del Angel', 'Triunfal', 'Otono Porteno', 'Invierno
Porteno', 'Primavera Porteno', 'Verano Porteno', 'Oblivion',
'Ressureccion Del Angel', 'La Muerte Del Angel', 'Concierto
Para Quintetto', and 'Michelangelo 70'.
The Amor Quintet are: Nikolai Ryskov (accordion), Anahit
Chaushyan (piano), Orpheous Papafilippou (violin), Hideo
Morii (electric guitar), and Enrique Galassi (double bass).
The
American Irish punk-folk band Flogging Molly, featuring
Matt Hemsley on accordion and concertina, are about to
tour various countries, as follows:
March 1st, 7pm - Ram's Head Live, Baltimore, USA
March 2nd, 7pm - The National, Richmond, Virginia
March 3rd, 7pm - The Norva, Norfolk, Virginia
March 5th, 7pm - Tremont Music Hall, Charlotte, North Carolina
March 6th, 7pm - Tabernacle, Atlanta, Georgia
March 7th, 7pm - House of Blues, Orlando, Florida
March 8th, 7pm - Jannus Landing, St Petersburg, Florida
March 9th, 8pm - House of Blues, New Orleans
March 11th, 7pm - Warehouse Live, Houston, Texas
March 13th, 8pm - Crystal Ballroom, Portland, Oregon
March14th and 15th, 5pm - House of Blues, Las Vegas
March 16th, 7pm, Marquee Theatre, Tempe, Arizona
March17th, 5pm - St Patrick's Day, Temple Town Lake, Arizona
April 5th, 2pm - Punkspring Festival, Osaka, Japan
April 6th, 11am - Punkspring Festival, Tokyo, Japan
April 9th, 8.30pm - Night Train, Adelaide, Australia
April 10th and 11th, 8.30pm - The Corner, Melbourne, Australia
April 12th, 8pm - The Forum, Sydney, Australia
April 13th - The Tivoli, Brisbane, Australia
April 26th, 11am - Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival,
California, USA
by The Groanbox Boys
Cory Seznec
and Michael Ward-Bergeman
Peter Piccini - accordionist, composer, arranger, performer,
releases 4 new works for accordion available for purchase
online. 'That
Latin Feel', 'Waving
Palms', 'Waltz
For Bella' and 'Pete's
Music Bug'. Samples of theses music are available on
the site. The music is in eSheet format, able to be emailed
to your computer. Purchase with credit card.
Gary Dahl - accordionist as well as a composer, arranger,
recording artist and music educator,updates 3 of his works
and release 1 new work for accordion available for purchase
online, Maria
Elena, '12th
Street Rag' and 'You
Can't Be True Dear'. Samples of this music are available
on the site. The music is in eSheet format, able to be
emailed to your computer. Purchase with credit card.
A new site selling a CD titled "La
Cumparsita" with sound samples. Music performed
by Friedrich
Lips. Purchase online.