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Daily Reports, Shanghai National Accordion Competition - ChinaFestival de Printemps à Castelfidardo - Italie
46eme Concours International Accordéon, Klingenthal - Allemagne
«Accordéons Cruise» Festival - Italie, Grèce, Croatie
Dylan's New Features CD Accordéon - USA
Reports for Concerts, Masterclasses, Competitions, Festivals, etc. |
NAO 2009 UK Championships and Festival - UKFriedrich Lips and his Piazzolla-Studio, Salzburg - AustriaDr. William Schimmel’s Busy Month, New York – USA
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‘Nuevo Mundo’ Duet Concert, Cordoba - ColombiaTejano Conjunto Festival, Texas – USAGator By The Bay Festival, California – USAWorld Accordion Day Events, Stockport – UK‘2 Nights at the Casino’, Figueira da Foz - Portugal‘Seili Sounds’ Accordion Summer Course, Seili – FinlandMECA Accordion Band in Concert, Texas – USAStolen AccordionWorld Accordion Day Events in Salzburg - Austria
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Renzo Ruggieri new CDMario D'Amario new CDPeter Piccini releases 1 new work for accordionH S Production New Music ReleasesNew CD - Kondert Pa KleppeNew CD - InnervisionsH S Production New Music Releases
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Festival de Printemps à Castelfidardo - Italieby Holda Paoletti-Kampl |
 Le Festival Accordeon de printemps de Castelfidardo sera bientôt en plein essor. Du 14 au 16 Mai, la Piazza della Repubblica sera envahies par les rythmes du tango. Le festival commence avec le candidat Latin Grammy awards Renato Borghetti, en tournée du Brésil. Le divertissement est assuré dans la soirée du 14 Mai lorsque Renato et son quatuor sera accompagné par des danseurs professionnels. Le 15 et 16 Mai, la place d'exploser avec la musique et des cours de danse de tango. International de tango enseignants faire des démonstrations sur une scène au centre de la place. Tango rythmes sera accompagnée par les couleurs et les saveurs des aliments par la dégustation stands remplis de délicieux produits locaux et saisonniers, et d'un stand avec les gadgets officielle du Festival. Il y aura également une conférence sur la thérapie Tango tenue par des artistes de renommée internationale dans l'ancienne salle de cinéma et de l'Paolo Soprani Civic Music School. Pour les plus jeunes, il y aura un espace dédié aux jeux vidéo avec maxi-écran où vous pouvez jouer les derniers jeux, la musique à thème. Les cliniques détenues par M. Christian Riganelli ont également été organisées pour présenter l'accordéon pour les enfants. Tout cela dans un décor de fleurs et le thème d'éclairage: une à ne pas manquer au festival. Horaire: 14 mai, 21h jusqu'à 22h30 - Renato Borghetti Quartet; spectacles par des danseurs professionnels et Alessandro Esposto Sara Porfiri et leur équipe 15 mai, 17h jusqu'à 18h30 - Daniele di Bonaventura, bandonéon de concert; performances d'Alessandro Esposto et Sara Porfiri et de l'équipe; 21h jusqu'à 22h30 - je Tangheri en concert, plus de nouvelles démonstrations de danse 16 mai, 17h jusqu'à 18h30 - Luca Colantonio, accordéon, et de Mattia Menna, piano, en concert, en plus des démonstrations de danse; 21h jusqu'à 22h30 - Trio Porteno en concerte t des démonstrations de danse |
46eme Concours International Accordéon, Klingenthal - Allemagneby Holda Paoletti-Kampl |
 Il est donc temps de Mai et de la Competition International d’Accordéon à Klingenthal. Cet événement de classe mondiale a lieu pour la 46eme fois, du 8 au 14 Mai, Klingenthal accueillera les participants du monde entier. Actuellement, il ya 98 demandes pour les participants de 24 pays, avec la plupart des participants inscrits viennent de Serbie, Russie et de la France. Très agréable, c'est que il ya des inscriptions dans toutes les catégories (sauf Bandoneon) y compris les applications de l'Allemagne - avec quatre entrées de l'État libre de Saxonie. Dans la catégorie II, il ya même un local de jeunes accordéon soliste: Marie-Luise Kuhnert, de Zwota. Elle étudie au Conservatoire Robert Schumann à Zwickau. Les compétiteurs et les visiteurs auront aussi l'occasion de rencontrer des artisans locaux de fabrication d’accordéon dans le salon. Tous les concours sont ouverts au public. En outre, chaque année, l'assemblée générale annuelle des Amis de l'Accordéon Concours International de Klingenthal a lieu avec des membres bien connus, y compris les solistes, les éducateurs et les compositeurs de musique de tous les coins du monde. |
«Accordéons Cruise» Festival - Italie, Grèce, Croatieby Rob Howard |
 Un «Festival Accordéons Cruise", à bord du paquebot Costa Victoria, se déroule du 17 au 24 avril 2010, départ de Venise (Italie) et de visite á Ancona (Italie), Santorini (Grèce), Mykonos (Grèce), Atene / Pireo ( Grèce), Corfou (Grèce), Dubrovnik (Croatie), et de retour à Venise. L'organisateur est Donato Di Tullio. Les accordéonistes guest réservé à ce jour comprennent Giancarlo Caporilli (Italie), Romano Viazzani (UK), et Gennaro Ruffolo (Italie). Le festival comprend des concerts flottant tous les jours, d'une compétition d’accordéon, d'un accordéon Master Class dirigée par Romano Viazzani, un salon de présentation de produits par MusicTech, Fisart & Vignoni Accordions Accordéons et Beltrami, etc Pour de plus amples informations email: redazione@accordionplanet.net |
Dylan's New Features CD Accordéon - USAby Rob Howard |
 Bob Dylan a le nouveau CD "Ensemble dans la vie» caractéristiques David Hidalgo de «Los Lobos» renommée, à l'accordéon. Le 33eme album studio de Dylan est une collection de blues et de folk-fondé, caractérisé par un style loose swing et d'éminents accordéon. David Hidalgo de l'accordéon diatonique donne une limite de Tex Mex goût à cette nouvelle collection de chansons de Dylan. L'un des commentaires que le nouveau CD de Dylan, maintenant sur une diffusion générale, est "... l'un des plus naturellement agréable albums pour entendre toute l'année" |
Reports for Concerts, Masterclasses, Competitions, Festivals, etc. |
by Anna Bodell of Charnwood Publications
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  For the second consecutive year the famous seaside town of Blackpool played host to the NAO UK Accordion Championships and Festival. The festival attracted over 400 entries ranging from aged sections as young as 7 years old to Art Level Orchestras. The weekend commenced with Roland UK V Competition held for the first time in conjunction with the NAO, attracting 7 entries in the Senior Category and 9 in the Juniors. The winner of the Senior Category was Archie Main from Scotland who will go on the International Roland V final to be held in Rome, Italy in November, and the Junior Category winner was Leah Langton, both of whom went on to win UK titles in the following 2 days of competition. Also for the first time the NAO held a Composers’ competition with the winning compositions from Matina Schwartz, Steve Hughes and Ian McColl. A wonderful array of talent was heard over the 3 days, highlights include 17 year old 3 time Solo winner Gary Blair (17 & Under, Senior Scottish and Senior Polka), Julie Langton (Virtuoso, Virtuoso Variety Senior and International), Alexander Bodell (Junior Virtuoso Variety, 11 & Under Solo and Musette 11 Under) and Senior Recital winner Samuel Davis. Winning orchestra came under the batons of Brian Laurie, Graham Laurie, Elaine Beecham and Clyde Johnston. The event organized, under the helm of Raymond Bodell and the NAO team also featured the traditional Trade display, this time in the Metropole hotel throughout the weekend. No UK championship would have been complete without the Celidh with Gary Blair and his band, a wonderful evening was had by all. Full competition results are available on the NAO website. |
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 Friedrich Lips - bayan, Vladislav Igolinsky - violin, Kirill Rodin – violoncello, and Svjatoslav Lips – piano, have had a very active concert season. In March they had a very successful tour in Austria including concerts at the Viennese accordion festival, Gleisdorf, Salzburg (photo in front of Mozart’s birth place), Bad Leonfelden and Lavamünd. Last week they have been performing in Lipezk, Russia. These are musicians of the very highest order. The technical proficiency in every piece is impeccable! Their dynamics are far-reaching; each instrument is heard regardless of the wealth of musical sound produced. After the Austrian tour with his Piazzolla-Studio Friedrich Lips gave master classes at the Private University in Vienna and Musikum Salzburg, solo concerts in Kapfenberg, Salzburg and Stift Rein (see photo). Friedrich Lips’ and the two Piazzolla-Studio CDs ‘Buenos Dias, Astor!’ and ‘La Cumparsita’ are especially fine recordings of tango music, including many pieces by Piazzolla. Purchase online, at MusicForAccordion.com |
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 Dr. William Schimmel is performing in two new operas as part of New York City’s Opera’s Vox Festival, a yearly festival that promotes the development of new innovative operas and presents them in the form of staged readings.Dr. Schimmel is performing in ‘Ratland’, by Gordon Beeferman – an opera about a dysfunctional family, and ‘Crescent City’, by Anne LeBaron – an opera about New Orleans, focusing in on Hurricane Katrina. Both parts were written especially for Dr. Schimmel. ‘Ratland’ is a brutal modernistic piece which requires much physical and psychological energy in performance, and ‘Crescent City’ was written in such a way that Dr. Schimmel could utilize his many eclectic skills through various style shifts as well as improvisations. The Operas are presented on May 1st and 2nd at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York University, NY. On April 25th, Dr. Schimmel performed in Gerard Grisey’s ‘Partiels’, with the Ensemble ACJW at Zankel Hall, at Carnegie Hall. The conductor was Mathais Pintscher. The work is scored for chamber ensemble with accordion and features the accordion in a highly textural manner. The late Gerard Grisey, whose early career in the 1960s included being a CIA Coupe Mondiale winner, was the forerunner of the Spectral School of Music composition, which is to create music based on the overtone series producing an end result which makes acoustic instruments almost sound electronic. On May 16th Dr. Schimmel will perform a series of songs by composer Eric Salzman to texts by Bertolt Brecht set in French. Eric Salzman was the producer of the Tango Project, a series of hit recordings that included Dr. Schimmel on accordion. The performances will take place at the Southampton Public Library in Southampton, New York. Dr. Schimmel also is featured in the upcoming film: ‘New York, I love you’, which should be in theatres sometime in May. The music is by Paul Cantelon, composer of such films as ‘W’ and ‘Everything is Illuminated’. The film is a series of short films by various directors. Shekhar Kapur directed the segment where Dr. Schimmel can be heard. The segment stars actress Julie Christie. Also this month is the release of a new book on Tom Waits titled ‘Lowside of the Road’ by Barney Hoskyns. It will contain some interviews with Dr. Schimmel and his time with Mr. Waits. For further information email: billschimmel@billschimmel.com |
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by Rob Howard
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 Lacides Romero – accordion, and Francisco Rivera – clarinet, perform in concert together on May 1st, 3.30pm, at the Principal Church, Lorica City, Cordoba. This special concert will celebrate 269 years old since the foundation of Lorica City. The duo will perform works including ‘La Roxelane’ (Haydn), ‘Czardas’ (V. Monti), ‘La Danza’ (G. Rossini), ‘Chorando Baixinho’ (Abel Ferreira), ‘La Cumparsita’ (Mattos Rodriguez), ‘Intermezo No 1’ (Luis A. Calvo), ‘Hora Stacatto’ (Dinicu), and ‘El Bocachico Sinuano’ (Tiburcio Romero Garcés). For further information email: lacidesromero@yahoo.com |
by Rob Howard
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| The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center presents the 28th annual Tejano Conjunto Festival in Rosedale Park, 303 Dartmouth, San Antonio, Texas, May 5th to 9th. The guest artistes include El Pavo Grande Salvador García, Eddie ‘Lalo’ Torres, Anita Paíz y su Conjunto, Los Hermanos De León, Los Badd Boyz del Valle, Sunny Sauceda, Joel Guzmán & Sarah Fox, Esteban Jordán y su Rio Jordán, Bene Medina y el Conjunto Águila, Los Monarcas de Pete and Mario Díaz, Cuatro Rosas, Los Dos Gilbertos, Johnny “El Brujo” Cruz and the Texas Chain Gang, and Mingo Saldívar y sus Tremendos Cuatro Espadas. There will be Button Accordion and Bajo Sexto Workshops with a special session: ‘Accordion Tuning, Maintenance & Repair’, will be offered at the Guadalupe Theatre. These workshops will be conducted by conjunto greats Oscar Hernández and Jesús ‘Chucho’ Perales. For further information email: info@guadalupeculturalarts.org |
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| On May 8th, 9th and 10th the Gator By The Bay festival takes place in Spanish Landing Park, San Diego, California – close to the Airport. This annual event is a huge Cajun Zydeco, Blues, Country, and Bluegrass Music Festival, featuring concerts, dances, music and dance workshops. Accordion-led acts appearing include Brian Jack & the Zydeco Gamblers, Billy Lee & the Swamp Critters, Tim Cook's Steel-Bone Temps Band, San Diego Cajun Playboys, Theo & Zydeco Patrol, Lisa Haley & the Zydekats, The Pine Leaf Boys, and Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble. |
by Rob Howard
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 On May 6th, World Accordion Day, Stockport Accordion Club will hold a concert titled ‘President’s Night’, in honour of SAC President, Johnny Coleclough. May 6th also happens to be Johnny Coleclough’s birthday. The concert features the SAC Band (MD Dennis Pepler) and Orchestra (MD Brian Jenkins), most of SAC's playing members performing in solo and various combinations, including Johnny Coleclough, Vice Presidents Pearl Fawcett-Adriano, John Nixon, and Walter Perrie.The evening also sees the first appearance of Rob Howard's new book 'An A to Z of the Accordion, Volume 4' The venue is Woodley Methodist Church, Chapel St, Woodley, Stockport, Cheshire. The concert begins at 8p, and admission is free. Just one mile away, at Banks Lane Junior School, Offerton, the Fosbrooks traditional music group (MD accordionist Michael Turner) will be performing ‘Intermezzo Sinfonico’, from Mascagni's ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’ in another World Accordion Day concert. For further information email: robaccord5@hotmail.com |
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 Accordionist Joao Gentil performs at the Casino Figueira da Foz, Portugal, on successive evenings: Sunday May 31st, 9pm Monday June 1st, 11pm For further information email: joaogentil1@gmail.com |
by Holda Paoletti-Kampl
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 An accordion course titled ‘Seili Sounds’ takes place in Seili, near Turku, Finland, from July 12th to 17th. The teachers are Mikko Luoma (Finland), Gerhard Scherer (Berlin, Germany), Marko Valtonen (Finland), Heidi Velamo(Finland), and Matti Rantanen (Finland).The organisers welcome students from music academies. There will be solo lessons daily, and Gerhard Scherer will give workshops on pedagogical themes. For further information email: mikko.luoma@turkuamk.fi |
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| The MECA Accordion Band will perform in concert on Saturday, May 2nd, 2.30pm as part of the Cinco de Mayo Festival, 3103 S. Ft Hood St, Killen, Texas. For further information email: dfkott@aol.com |
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 Accordions Worldwide has received the following message:My son, Samuel Davis (aged 20) was a competitor at the UK Accordion Championships in Blackpool on Sunday 26 April 2009. Sam won the ‘Senior Recital’ section becoming UK Champion again. Unfortunately during prize giving, his custom made Victoria accordion was stolen from the competition depository area. The police are investigating and actually have some CCTV footage, but no sign of the instrument yet. It’s a black Victoria piano free bass, cassotto accordion, with chin couplers, and its number is 478. The accordion was in a black 'backpack' style case with red stitching. The case also included some rare out-of-print music. I would be truly grateful if you could inform your members to be on the look-out. The instrument is quite rare, there really aren't many of these. And Sam's is unique because it has black mesh on the black grill. I am offering a £500 reward for any information that leads to be safe return of this instrument. Many thanks Tim Davis: tim@davis-solutions.co.uk |
by Rob Howard
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 On the 6th of May 1829, 180 years ago the Austrian Cyrill Demian in deposit in Vienna, a patent for an instrument with the name of "Accordion". The 6th May is therefore regarded as the “birthday” of the instrument "accordion". Throughout the world, various events will take place to celebrate this day including in Salzburg: Akkord - On - Stage does not want to miss such an important day and has organised for this date a concert in the Musikschule Bergheim (Dorfstrasse 26, 5101 Bergheim). During this "International Day of the Accordion" at 2pm, 3pm and 6 pm various musical events are happening. Soloist concerts by our young artists from Salzburg and Upper Austria, a contribution of the large accordion orchestra - Harmony Salzburg, a concert of the famous accordion ensemble "Klavitoniker" and also, the option of an “accordion trial” for all those interested, to start learning the accordion. Further information from: office@akkordeonstage.com |
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| Renzo Ruggieri selling 1 new CD titled "Collection" with sound samples. Music performed by Renzo Ruggieri. Purchase online. |
by Mario D'Amario
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| A new site selling a CD titled "Carnevale" with sound samples. Music performed by Mario D'Amario. Purchase online. |
by Peter Piccini
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| Peter Piccini - accordionist, composer, arranger, performer, release 1 new work for accordion available for purchase online. 'French Song, catalog:pp282'. Samples of this music is available on the site. The music is in eSheet format, able to be emailed to your computer. Purchase with credit card. |
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| H S Production releases 7 new pieces, 'The Wind Blows At The Gate, catalog:hs502', 'Waltz Arrangement, catalog:hs506', 'German Song Arrangement, catalog:hs507', 'Dance Arrangement, catalog:hs513', 'The Bee Arrangement, catalog:hs516', 'Aria Arrangement, catalog:hs517', and 'Bagpipes, catalog:hs522'. Samples of the music are available online. The music are in eSheet format, able to be emailed to your computer. Purchase with credit card. |
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| Jon Faukstad selling 1 new CD titled "Kondert Pa Kleppe" with sound samples. Music performed by Jon Faukstad and Per Saemund Bjorkum. Purchase online. |
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| Joxan Goikoetxea selling 1 new CD titled "Innervisions" with sound samples. Purchase online. |
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| H S Production releases 6 new pieces, 'In A Smithy, catalog:hs475', 'Dark – Browed, Black - Eyed, catalog:hs478', 'Behind The River, catalog:hs481', 'Joke Arrangement, catalog:hs490', 'Tyrolean Polka, catalog:hs499' and 'German Folk Song, catalog:hs500'. Samples of the music are available online. The music are in eSheet format, able to be emailed to your computer. Purchase with credit card. |
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