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  Daily Reports in English of the 44th Klingenthal International Accordion Competition 2007 The event started on the 4th May and our reports are for the final days of the event, listing all the results. Klingenthal official website |
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Tuesday May 8th
| Klingenthal City in the mountains and ski area once a part of East Germany is close to the Czech boarder. This lovely city has a huge history of accordion. The area was once dominated by the huge Accordion Factory in Klingenthal and evidence of the importance of the accordion in the lives of the people of Klingenthal is obvious wherever you go in the city. |
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The
Tourism Office is the main base of the Klingenthal International Accordion
Competition, very central to the halls being used.
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Various
artwork and statutes with accordion as part of the theme are around
the city center.
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| Closer photo of this interesting statute / monument in the city square. |
Nice
accordion statute outside the Gliersaal
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Adjudicator
Frederic Deschamps - is he adding
a free bass to the statute! |
Banners
were on all the entrance roads to Klingenthal City - a lovely welcome
for candidates and accordion enthusiasts. A lovely touch, one of many
by the Klingenthal International Accordion Competition organisers.
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| Accordion concerts were well advertised with posters and brochures. |
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competition room in the Rathaus could be seen from the city square along
with an array of flags of different nations attending. This report covers from the 8th May on but prior to that, there have been a number of festival concerts and some competition classes. Some results are already released. |
| Category Va chamber
music casts with up to five musicians, instruments of "classic"
symphonic orchestra only, including one accordion or bandonion 1. Trio Con Abbandono, Germany 2. Duo Trygas/ Zenzerovic, Croatia/ Poland 3. Duo Smanowskaja/ Schmelkov, Russia 3. Duo Misiak/ Malachowski, Poland Category Vb
instrumental with up to five musicians, different instruments at free
option, including one accordion or bandonion; Category VII bandonion
soloists (no age limit) |
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Category
VI first round was run today. Apolline Grimaldi from France was a Category
VI contestant for soloists playing virtuosic light music (no age limit).
Apolline and her bright green artwork accordion which looked really
nice, is seen here receiving warm applause from the audience.
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Rathaus room was used due to the normal hall being renovated. Room was
very crowded for Category VI which holds a lot of public interest and
has strong audience appeal. Being so close to the performers was nice
and the room had good accoustics. At the table are the judges for this
category.
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Julien
"Speedy" Gonzales (France) was one of those who qualified
for the second round tomorrow. List
of qualifiers.
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Grayson
Masefield (New Zealand) also qualified for the second round tomorrow.
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After
the Category VI finished, Category IV was still running in the Gliersaal.
Round 2 of Category IV started at 9am runing all day until 10 pm at
night. From that competition was selected the
finalists. Ihar Kvachevich (Russia) above was a Category IV contestant.
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Harri
Kuusijarvi (Finland)
Category IV - Round II A program at free option with different style forms and from different time periods, including one "Sonata" by Domenico Scarlatti, exactly named and a cyclic work of original literature, complete performed. The program must also include one composition from the native country of the competitor. Maximum duration is 35 minutes. |
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| Category IV Jury members sitting at the tables. Inaki Alberdi (left), Iwan Koval, Czech Republic, (Russia). | Category IV Jury members, Prof. Jürgen Ganzer, Germany (left), Lech Puchnowski (Poland), Tibor Racz (Czech) just visible in the corner of the room. |