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Augustinas Rakauskas Wins ‘2 Minutes of Glory’ TV Show - LithuaniaPietro Adragna (Italy) Wins Primus Ikaalinen VI – FinlandAn Honour for Gottfried Preisl, Vienna – Austria2010 AAA Festival in Harrisburg, PA - USAFrank Marocco’s new CD, ‘Changes’, California – USA
Reports for Concerts, Masterclasses, Competitions, Festivals, etc. |
‘Tag der Harmonika’, Rottenmann – AustriaAmadej Herzog Wins RAM Club Prize, London – UKTwo Accordionists Graduate from the Royal Academy of Music, London – UK
Future events |
Kyiv Duo Tour Dates, England, Scotland – UKPascal Contet’s July Concerts – FranceInternational Festival of Accordion Artists, Kragujevac, - Serbia and MontenegroJack Emblow & Tony Compton at WHAC, Wiltshire – UKBrosella Folk & Jazz Festival, Brussels – BelgiumMumford & Sons @ Festival Internacional de Benicassim – Spain
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July 2010 Diatonic News Now OnlineJuly USA Accordion News Now OnlineAgenzia Italia New Website - ItalyUpdated site Siwa & Figli Accordions in Casteflidardo - ItalyNAA Publications New Music ReleasesDonald E Grzanna releases new musicShmelkov Semion releasing another new CDMusicForAccordion.com releases new musicMusicForAccordion.com releases new musicNAA Publications New Music Releases
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by Horst Fausel, Hohner, Product Manager, Accordion
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 17 year old Lithuanian Augustinas Rakauskas, student of Grazina Lukostene, Kaunas Accordion Association President and Professor at the ‘J. Gruodis’ Conservatory in Kaunas, is once again getting noticed with his Hohner on the popular show ‘2 Minutes of Glory’, which is broadcast on Lithuanian National TV.Augustinas has succeeded brilliantly, starting the competition in January with a masterful interpretation of the arrangement of Vivaldi's ‘Winter’. He then performed last month the famous ‘Figaro’, by Rossini, and this catapulted him straight into the semi-final with a unanimous jury and public vote. On March 28th it was a real coup with Augustinas interpreting the difficult French piece ‘La Tempête’, by André Astier, coming 1st in the selection for the finals, and on May 23rd he won the finals, performing ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, by Queen, which was really exciting. As the winner of this competition ‘2 Minutes of Glory’ he was invited to the Super Finals of the winners. Here he won the 4th place amongst a lot of high level Circus Artists, dancers, singes, etc. With this result he did a superb job for his career and for the accordion in general. He was guided by Frederic Deschamps, who has been helping the young artist with advice, technical, musical and stage craft using Skype (Internet). Enjoy his excellent performance in: - the semi-final http://www.accordion-space4u.com/user.aspx?user=5&item=6&id=128 - the final http://www.accordion-space4u.com/user.aspx?user=5&item=6&id=140 - the superfinal http://www.accordion-space4u.com/user.aspx?user=5&item=6&id=141 |
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by Kevin Friedrich
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 The annual Sata-Häme Soi Accordion Festival has been taking place in Ikaalinen, Finland, from June 29th to July 4th. There are Daily Reports online at the Sata-Häme Soi website.The festival includes the Primus Ikaalinen VI competition, which was broadcast online and live TV Broadcast on National Finnish TV on Thursday July 1st. Primus Ikaalinen brings some of the best entertainment accordionists from all over the world to Ikaalinen with 1st prize of €3,000 was won by Pietro Adragna (Italy), 2nd prize of €2,000 was won by Petar Maric (Serbia), 3rd prize went to Madina Tsaloeva (Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia). In an extremely close competition, Pietro Adragna and Petar Maric had equal marks. This had happened last year (for the first time ever) when Grayson Masefield (New Zealand) also had equal full marks with Petar Maric and in both cases, the jury had to confer to decide the winner with Petar Maric just missing the win. Such close competition has never happened before in the history of Ikaalinen accordion competitions and is a tribute to the talent, ability and training of the contestants. Each contestant performed two virtuoso entertainment style pieces of 3-4 minutes in duration suitable for a public entertainment concert accompanied by a band provided by the organizers. Please visit the Daily Reports on the Sata-Häme Soi website. You can also find links for the live TV show Coverage of Primus Ikaalinen VI on the Sata-Häme Soi website. |
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by Herbert Scheibenreif
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| Last Friday, Andreas Mailath Pokorny (center), Vienna’s Head of the Cultural Department, presented the Golden Decoration for Cultural Services for his home town to Gottfried Preisl (picture right - CIA Honored Friend of the Accordion in 2008), who created a place for the world music in Vienna. Without any exaggeration Preisl could be called “maker of world-music festivals”. Many musicians, like Laudator and chief of the Tschuschenkapelle Slavko Ninic, have to be thankful to Preisl for giving them opportunities for concert appearances. He also succeeded in attracting a new public for the accordion coming to Vienna, even from abroad, in order to listen to concerts of the festival. Gottfried Preisl was working in a bank before becoming concert organizer. The native Viennese started the international accordion festival in 2000, which ranks among the established music festival of Vienna nowadays. In 2004 he created the Klezmer festival, which presented a program of exclusively Jewish music in Vienna for the very first time. |
by Rita Davidson Barnea
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| The 2010 American Accordionists' Association (AAA) Festival which will be held at the Sheraton Harrisburg Hershey Hotel in Harrisburg, PA from July 14-18 2010. Performances will take place at Hershey Park. The event will have all types of accordion music with something for everyone! There will be many exciting and fun filled events taking place at the AAA Festival this year including a Press and Squeeze Party on Wednesday evening, a massed band performance at Hershey Park on Thursday followed by a cabaret night on Thursday evening. The Luncheon Concert is scheduled for Friday and the breakfast/meeting on Sunday morning. On Friday morning a unique program will take place: A children’s program with an accordion “petting zoo” and a presentation of the book, “An Accordion! What Is That?” by Karen Malan-Uribe, Joan Grauman and Mary Tokarski. This is the first time that an accordion “petting zoo” will be part of the festival activities and children will be able to hold and play a 12 bass accordion! Dr. Emilian Badea will conduct this year’s festival orchestra which is open to all registered participants and will rehearse at the Festival. Several important competitions will take place during the festival including: The Maddalena Belfiore Entertainment Competition for female accordionists, the Elsie Bennett Composition Competition; the Carmen Carrozza Scholarship Competition; and the AAA Digital Accordion Competition. Many well known accordion artists will perform at the AAA Festival including: Dominic Karcic and Ray Oreggio, Dr.Robert McMahan, Joseph Natoli, John Moceo, Bruce Gassman, Beverly Roberts Curnow, Vladimir Mollov , Annie Moger, Mary Tokarski, The Busso Trio, Martynas Levickis, The Potomac Ensemble, and The Alex Meixner Band. For further information view the AAA website or email: AAA1938@aol.com |
by Rob Howard
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 US jazz accordionist Frank Marocco has released a new CD, ‘Changes’, which contains eleven original compositions. Frank wrote his own CD notes:"The idea of this project was conceived by my manager and good friend, Elke Ahrenholz, who thought that I should record my originals. In the past I had always recorded mostly standards or evergreens, so with this CD of originals she wanted other musicians to be able to hear my music. On one of my last visits in Europe, Elke organized some studio time in Bologna and called Italian musicians to record with me. One of them is the tenor sax player, Carlo Atti, who I heard in a previous tour in Italy. I thought his style and especially his sound was exactly what I wanted. Both musically and personally, we connected immediately. The title of the CD came out of one of my originals, a funky piece with many changing, repeated chord sequences, therefore the title ‘Changes’. The CD involved many different musicians. Some of the tunes were recorded in LA, where I played with Ron Feuer the great jazz organist, and George Green on drums. There is only one standard, ‘Estate’, which is one of my favorite tunes, written by the Italian composer Bruno Martino. It was a total new experience to record in the relaxed Italian atmosphere, in between good Italian food and coffee breaks." The tracks (all originals except the second, ‘Estate’, by Bruno Martino) are: ‘Changes’, ‘Estate’, ‘Get Over It’, ‘Blue Notes’, ‘Black is Beautiful’, ‘Starbrite’, ‘Sentimenti Nuovi’, ‘Serenity’, ‘In The Stillness’, ‘Stepping Out’, and ‘I Know You’ Frank Marocco is one of the most recorded accordionists in, having played on a vast number of movie soundtracks, television scores, commercial jingles and record albums, in the studios of Hollywood and beyond. He has recorded for and/or worked with artists ranging from Brian Wilson, Pink Floyd and Madonna to Luciano Pavarotti, conductor Maxim Shostakovich, and composer John Williams. The new CD, ‘Changes’ is available directly from Frank: frankmarocco@yahoo.com It is available in Europe: eahrenholz@me.com. |
Reports for Concerts, Masterclasses, Competitions, Festivals, etc. |
by Herbert Scheibenreif
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 This year’s Austrian ‘Tag der Harmonika’ was held from June 11th to 13th in Rottenmann, which is located in the lovely region of Styria. The competition included categories for accordion soloists, duos, ensembles and orchestras, for mouth organ as well as for the “Steirische Harmonika” (Styrian Harmonica), which has become very popular recently. Compared to former competitions it can be said that the interest in the instrument and also the level of performance are constantly growing. The possibility to study the accordion at all major conservatories and universities of music as well as the work of the newly formed executive committee of Austrian Confederation of Accordionists HVÖ is finally showing very positive results. The most impressive performances came from Johannes Münzner, Paul Schuberth (accordion) and Leopold Schütz (diatonic). Surely they will be going to represent their country at international competitions such as the Coupe Mondiale in Varazdin in October or the World Diatonic Competition in Inzell next year. For the very first time the award of ‘Merited Friend’ was given to Franz Chmel (mouth organ), Franz Haas (accordion) and Heinz Rabitsch (diatonic). |
by Owen Murray
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| Amadej Herzog recently won the prestigious RAM Club Prize competition. This competition included top Royal Academy of Music students of all instruments and voice. Amadej will give a full evening recital at the RAM in March 2011 as part of his prize. There were 5 finalists: Jonathan McGovern (baritone), Amadej Herzog (accordion), Reinis Zarins (piano), Sasha Koushk-Jalali (tuba) and Karen Geoghegan (bassoon). |
by Owen Murray
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| Amadej Herzog, M A (London) Dip RAM and Thi Quynh Trang Nguyen MA (London) both graduated with Distinction from the Royal Academy of Music, London. The above photograph was taken at the Graduation Ceremony on Wednesday June 30th with their tutor Owen Murray. The awards were presented by HRH The Duchess of Gloucester,GCVO, Hon FRAM. |
Future events |
by Rob Howard
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 Igor Sayenko and Oleksiy Kolomoiets, known as The Kyiv Duo, graduated in 2006 from the National Music Academy, Kiev, in the Ukraine. They have performed professionally since 2002: Oleksiy plays in the Orchestra of the National Radio of Ukraine, and Igor works in the National Philharmonic of Ukraine. As The Kyiv Duo they perform transcriptions of JS Bach, Mozart, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Strauss, Piazzolla, and other composers as well as traditional Ukrainian and Russian music. Kyiv Duo Tour Dates - Saturday July 3rd, 2pm - Cornwall Accordion Club Sunday July 4th, 4pm - Holy Trinity Church, Fareham Monday July 5th, 7pm - St Bartholomew’s Church, Herne Bay Wednesday July 7th, 8pm - Fairkytes Accordion Club Thursday July 8th, 7.30pm - Lancaster Priory Church Friday July 9th, 7.30pm - Christ Church, New Mill, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire Saturday July 10th, 8pm - Soar Valley Accordion Club Monday July 12th, 7pm - Church of St Michael and All Angels, Inverness, Scotland Tuesday July 13th, 7pm - St Mary's Episcopal Church, Main St, Aberfoyle, Scotland Wednesday July 14th, 8pm - Stockport Accordion Club Friday July 16th, 8pm - St Mark’s Church, Church Lane, Colney Heath, St Albans AL4 0NH Sunday July 18th, 7.30pm - Felsted, Essex Wednesday July 21st, 7.30pm - Lindum Accordion Club Friday July 23rd, 7pm - Thurso, Scotland Saturday July 24th, 7.30pm - St Finbarr’s Church, Dornoch Sunday July 25th, 7.30pm - St Augustine’s Church, Dumbarton Monday July 26th, 8pm - Black Country Accordion and Music Club For further information email: duokyivclass@ukr.net |
by Holda Paoletti-Kampl
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 French accordionist Pascal Contet performs as follows during July:July 3rd, 6.30pm – with Marianne Piketty – violin, at Abbaye, Noirlac July 5th, 10pm – with the Ensemble Ars Nova, Brioux July 9th, 9pm – with the tango trio Ars Nova, Festival des Nuits Romanes, Verrines July 10th, 11pm – with Marie-Christine Barrault, Nohant Festival July 19th, 9pm - with the trio Ars Nova, Festival des Nuits Romanes, La Croix Comtesse July 20th, 9pm - with the trio Ars Nova, Festival des Nuits Romanes, Retaud July 23rd, 6pm – with saxophonist Maguelone Vidal, Jazz Festival, Junas |
by Rob Howard
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| The 19th International Festival of Accordion Artistes takes place at the Kragujevac Music School, Kragujevac, Serbia and Montenegro, from July 4th to 13th. This event includes concerts, seminars and master classes. |
by Rob Howard
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 Jack Emblow & Tony Compton are in concert at the Wiltshire White Horse Accordion Club on Sunday July 11th, 1pm. WHAC meets at Westbury Leigh Hall, Westbury Leigh, Westbury, Wiltshire, BA13 3SQ.Jack Emblow, who has just turned 80, and Tony Compton are long established accordion club and festival favourites. Their style is jazz flavoured, and largely features music by the likes of Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael, Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers, etc. For further information email: white-horse@blueyonder.co.uk |
by Rob Howard
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 The Brosella Folk & Jazz Festival takes place on July 10th and 11th at the Royal Palm in Brussels, Belgium. Renato Borghetti, on a European tour, from Brazil, is in concert at the Royal Palm Stage on July 10th, at 4.30pm. Also appearing at the festival, and including accordions, are Belgium’s Derroll’s Dream, and the trio Massot, Florizoone, and Horbaczewski. |
by Rob Howard
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 Mumford & Sons, from London, are a young folk rock quartet, led by multi-instrumentalist Marcus Mumford, featuring mandolin, dobro, accordion and double bass. Fresh from performing at Glastonbury, Mumford & Sons appear at the Festival Internacional de Benicassim in Spain on July 16th. In 2009 Mumford & Sons released their first CD, ‘Sigh no More’. |
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by Rita Davidson Barnea
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 The July USA Accordion News is now online. |
by Assistenza Fisarmonica
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 The Agenzia Italia (Agency Italy) is operating already for some time in the specific area of "assistance" on various issues. New instruments are manufactured and sold, "standard" or "special versions" instruments upon request. Available: Spare parts, repair and "regeneration" of old instruments. For information, view the Agenzia Italia website. |
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| We are pleased to announce that Siwa & Figli Accordions in Casteflidardo has joined the Accordions Worldwide client group. In 1985 Ivan Stanojlovic started his accordion manufacturing company in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. In the 1990s Ivan Stanojlovic made many trips to italy in the pursuit of the best quality materials and assemblies for his accordions. Soon it became clear that there could be no better place to craft accordions than the town of Castelfidardo in Italy, the accordion capital of the world. In 2005 SIWA was reborn in Castelfidardo under the name "Siwa & Figli di Stanojlovic Ivan". Each Siwa & Figli accordion is entirely hand made in Italy with the best quality materials. Enjoy their music! |
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 National Accordion Association releases 3 new pieces, 'Accordionique', catalog:naa155, 'Barnacle Bill The Sailor', catalog:naa156, 'Chopsticks (Easy Version)', catalog:naa157. 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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 Donald E. Grzanna releases 5 new pieces, 'Enchanted Villa', catalog:grza113, 'Sleeping Beauty', catalog:grza114, 'Holiday For Accordion', catalog:grza115, 'Illusion Waltz (Duet)' catalog:grza116 and 'Hop Skip Jump Polka', catalog:grza119. Samples of the music are available online. The music are in eSheet format, able to be emailed to your computer. Purchase with credit card. |
by Shmelkov Semion
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 Semion Shmelkov selling new CD titled 'Evening Love Ditties (Bayan)', catalog:shmelkovcd03 with sound samples. Music performed by Semion Shmelkov. Purchase online. |
by MusicForAccordion.com
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 MusicForAccordion.com site releases 5 new music 'Camptown Races', catalog:mfa8023, 'Around The World In 80 Days', catalog:mfa8026, 'Beer Barrel Polka (Duet Easy Version)', catalog:mfa8027, 'Beer Barrel Polka (Duet Easy Version)', catalog:mfa8028 and 'Ragging The Minor', catalog:mfa8029. Samples of the music are available online. The music are in eSheet format, able to be emailed to your computer. Purchase with credit card. |
by MusicForAccordion.com
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 MusicForAccordion.com site releases 6 new music 'Merry And Bright', catalog:mfa6001, 'Beautiful Ohio', catalog:mfa6073, 'Hallelujah For The Cross', catalog:mfa7012, 'The Holy City', catalog:mfa7013, 'Clarinet Polka', catalog:mfa7095 and 'Quiteno', catalog:mfa8015. 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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 National Accordion Association releases 6 new pieces, 'On, Wisconsin', catalog:naa101, 'Friendly Tavern Polka', catalog:naa102, 'Washington And Lee Swing', catalog:naa103, 'Oh! Susanna', catalog:naa105, 'Woods Of Finland', catalog:naa142 and 'Il Bacio', catalog:naa153. 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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