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Résumé
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Musical Background: |
- Accordion Teachers
Diploma of New Zealand (A.T.D.N.Z.)
Registered Music Teacher (R.M.T.)
(tutor: Harley Jones, New Zealand)
- Bachelor of
Music, University of Missouri-Kansas City
(tutor: Joan C. Sommers, USA)
- Degree Superior-1éré
Prix, Conservatoire
Paul Dukas (Paris)
(tutor: Max Bonnay, France)
- Masterclasses
(tutor: Friedrich Lips, Russia)
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Accordion Affiliations: |
- President -
Confédération Internationale des Accordéonistes
(CIA)
- Board of Director
- Accordionists
and Teachers Guild, International (ATG)
- Past President
(two terms) - Accordionists & Teachers Guild, International
(ATG)
- Board of Director
- American Accordionists Association (AAA)
- USA Manger -
Accordions Worldwide - www.accordions.com
- Producer - United
States National Accordion News - www.accordionusa.com
- Lifetime Member
- New Zealand Accordion Association (NZAA)
- Honorary Status
- National Accordion Association (NAA)
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Accordion Awards and Activities: |
- New Zealand
Solo Accordion Champion (Twice)
- Lifetime Member
of New Zealand Accordion Association
- Coupe Mondiale
World Accordion Championships - 5th Place
- Queen Elizabeth
II Arts Council Scholar
- New Zealand
Accordion Association (NZAA) National Championships - Adjudicator
- Auckland University,
New Zealand - Examiner for Accordion Performance Degree
- National Accordion
Organization of the United Kingdom (NAO) - Adjudicator
- Confederation
Nationale Francaise de l'Accordeon (CNFA) in Paris - Adjudicator
- VIP World Accordion
Show in Pontarlier, France - Adjudicator
- Primus Ikaalinen
International TV Competition for Accordion, Finland - Adjudicator
- CIA Coupe Mondiale
World Accordion Championships - Adjudicator/Chairman of Jury
- VIP Guest -
Shanghai Spring International Accordion Festival - 2-6 May,
2006
- Curator of 'Accordion
Gems'.... a Master Collection of Accordions through Time,
Dargaville Museum, NZ
- Norske Trekkspilleres
Landsforbund (NTL), Bodø, Norway - June, 2006 - Guest/Adjudicator
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Interviews with Accordion Dignitaries: |
- Lasse
Pihlajamaa, Finland
(conducted in Helsinki, Finland)
- Maddalena
Belfiore, USA
(condcuted in Kearney, NJ, USA)
- Maria
Kalenemi, Finland
(conducted in Ikaalinen, Finland)
- Friedrich
Lips, Russia
(conducted in London, United Kingdom)
- China
President, China
(conducted in Shanghai, China)
- Yvette
Horner, France
(condcuted in Paris, France) to be published
- Mika
Vayrynen, Finland
(conducted in Ikaalinen, Finland)
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Selected International Performances: |
- Concert
Master of the first 'World Accordion Orchestra' conducted
by Joan C. Sommers
Washington DC, (August 18th, 2007)
- World
Premiere of 'Gem of the Kaipara' by Gary Daverne
with Auckland Symphony Orchestra Strings - Gary Daverne, Conductor
Dargaville - New Zealand (May 11th, 2002)
- World
Premiere of 'Concert Waltz for Accordion & String
Quartet' by Gary Daverne
with 'String Silhouette' String Quartet
Auckland - New Zealand (June 5, 1993)
- 2002 Guest Soloist
with Auckland Symphony Orchestra, New Zealand
- 2001 International
Guest Soloist - NZAA 30th Anniversary - Auckland, New Zealand
- Guest Soloist
- Rhapsody by Gary Daverne with Whangarei Symphony Orchestra,
NZ
- Solo Concert
Tour - Norway/United Kingdom
- Guest Soloist
- Concerto No. 1 in G minor by Anthony Galla-Rini
- with Independence
Symphony Orchestra - Independence, Missouri, USA
- with UMKC
Symphony Orchestra - Kansas City, USA
- with Winter
Festival Orchestra - Sanner/Gran, Norway
- with ATG
Festival Orchestra - Chicago, USA
- Performances
with The International Trio in New Zealand, Finland, Estonia
the USA
- Performances
with the UMKC Accordion Orchestra in Sweden, Denmark, Russia,
New Zealand, Australia, Italy and across the USA
- Performances
with the Musicale Accordion Orchestra - China
- Live Radio Broadcasts
- Radio New
Zealand National Broadcast
- Norwegian
National Radio Broadcast
- USA KCUR
National Radio Broadcast from UMKC
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