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Iñaki Alberdi to Perform New Concerto, Buenos Aires - Argentina
I Concurso Internacional de Bayan y Acordeón, "Copa Alexander Skliarov", Kazan - Rusia
Nuevo sitio web de Scandalli ahora en línea - Italia
Concierto emergente para recaudar fondos en SaddleBrooke, durante el encierro de Covid-19 - Estados Unidos
Reports for Concerts, Masterclasses, Competitions, Festivals, etc. |
Martin Sulc Receives Gold Award For Quality Video, Prague - Czech RepublicMajor Changes to the 2020 South Pacific and New Zealand Accordion Championships - New ZealandVirus and Lockdown JokesRicardo Llanos Prepares Accordion Quarantine Teaching Videos - SpainVideo: Martynas Levickis plays Vivaldi in the Vilnius Railway Station - LithuaniaAccordionist Mario Tacca Entertainment
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Programa de transmisión del Día Mundial del Acordeónby Harley Jones |
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  La CIA se complace en darle la bienvenida al Día Mundial del Acordeón (WAD) en el Coupe oficialPlataforma de transmisión de Facebook Mondiale. Desde 2009, cada 6 de mayo, la CIA ha estado promoviendo el Día Mundial del Acordeón. Nuestro primer WAD se llevó a cabo el 6 de mayo de 2009, marcando el 180 cumpleaños del acordeón, el 6 de mayo de 1829, fecha en que el acordeón fue patentado por primera vez, en Viena, Austria, por Cyrillius Demien. Para 2020, con gran parte del mundo encerrado y restringido a sus hogares, la CIA está llevando a cabo un programa WAD de 12 horas en la transmisión de Coupe Mondiale en Facebook. Todas las grabaciones, entrevistas y actuaciones también se publicarán en el sitio web del Día Mundial del Acordeón y en el servidor del Día Mundial del Acordeón de China y en las plataformas locales de China. Los presentadores del espectáculo son el ex presidente y actual embajador de la CIA, Kevin Friedrich (EE. UU.) Y el vicepresidente del Comité de Música de la CIA, Grayson Masefield, con asistencia técnica del personal de relaciones públicas de la CIA, Harley Jones y el personal de Accordions Wordwide. Los horarios de transmisión se publicarán aquí y en el sitio web de WAD en los próximos días. |
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Iñaki Alberdi to Perform New Concerto, Buenos Aires - Argentinaby Christine Johnstone |
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  Iñaki Alberdi (imagen de arriba) presentará el estreno de un nuevo concierto titulado "Bidaia" con la Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires dirigida por Pablo González en el Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires, Argentina, el 13 de agosto de 2020.El concierto para acordeón y orquesta está escrito por el compositor Federico Jusid (foto derecha) y fue encargado por el Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires. Para detalles envíe un correo electrónico: accordion@ialberdi.com |
I Concurso Internacional de Bayan y Acordeón, "Copa Alexander Skliarov", Kazan - Rusiaby Ivan Dyma, SaxAkkord Duo |
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| La primera competencia internacional de artistas intérpretes o ejecutantes en Bayan y acordeón, "Alexander Skliarov Cup", se llevará a cabo del 27 al 30 de abril de 2020 en Kazan, Rusia, organizada por la Institución de Presupuesto Municipal de Educación Adicional en Kazan "Children's Music and Choir School". Los fundadores de la competencia son: Ministerio de Cultura de la República de Tatarstán, Institución Cultural Presupuestaria del Estado "Centro Metodista Republicano para Instituciones Educativas de Cultura y Arte", Oficina de Cultura de la UCI del Comité Ejecutivo de Educación Municipal de Kazán, Institución Educativa del Presupuesto del Estado Federal de Educación superior "Conservatorio Estatal Kazan (Academia) NG Jiganova", Institución Educativa Autónoma Estatal de Educación Profesional Secundaria de la República de Tatarstán "Kazan Music College. I.V.Aukadeeva ". El reglamento del I Concurso Internacional de Acordeón y Acordeón "Copa Alexander Sklyarov" (2020) está disponible en ruso en: https://edu.tatar.ru/arsk/org5853/page2785948.htm (No. 57) El propósito de la competencia: Preservación y desarrollo de la escuela de intérpretes de bayan y acordeón. |
Nuevo sitio web de Scandalli ahora en línea - Italiaby Elisa Lanari, Scandalli Accordions |
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 Mientras estamos en casa para luchar contra la propagación del Coronavirus, hemos trabajado duro para terminar el nuevo sitio web de Scandalli. www.scandalli.comCon mucho gusto me gustaría informarle que a partir de hoy, Scandalli se complace en anunciar que su nuevo sitio web ya está en línea. Decidimos centrarnos en un sitio web simple e intuitivo, así como estéticamente atractivo. El nuevo sitio web, disponible en italiano e inglés, también está disponible en todos los dispositivos móviles. La principal novedad es la introducción de la sección "INFO", donde encontrará: Información útil: consejos útiles, cosas que hacer o no hacer para mantener su instrumento perfecto en el tiempo Mantenimiento: las partes principales que componen el acordeón, las instrucciones y las soluciones a pequeños problemas. Extensión de la garantía: formulario para completar para solicitar la extensión de la garantía. Para mantenerse actualizado sobre ferias, nuevos productos, eventos, visite la Sección de Noticias que se actualizará continuamente. ¡Feliz navegación web! |
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Concierto emergente para recaudar fondos en SaddleBrooke, durante el encierro de Covid-19 - Estados Unidosby Christine Johnstone |
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 Shirley y James P. O'Brien (foto a la izquierda) viven en un desarrollo de retiro al norte de Tucson, Arizona. Aunque hay más de 5000 hogares en esta comunidad de golf, debido al reciente bloqueo causado por la pandemia de COVID-19, hubo poca actividad en el área.Los O'Brien decidieron que era hora de un evento que permitiría cierta interacción entre los miembros de la comunidad para sacarlos de su autoaislamiento mientras mantenían los "6 pies" obligatorios de distanciamiento social. Así que Shirley planeó un evento al aire libre, que fue anunciado como el concierto "SaddleBrooke’s First Drive-By", aconsejando a los asistentes que vengan en su carro de golf o automóvil y disfruten de la música desde la distancia. También fue promovido como un recaudador de fondos para IMPACT, el banco local de alimentos. El O'Brien se instaló frente a la casa de un vecino donde los asistentes podían verlos desde todas las partes de la intersección de cuatro vías. Su amplificación aumentó el sonido lo suficiente para que todos los asistentes pudieran escuchar razonablemente bien. La gente ciertamente apareció, mucho antes de la hora señalada, para asegurar el mejor muelle para sus carros de golf. Había una sensación festiva en el aire desde el primer momento, con la esperanza de que alguna vez se ponga fin a esta pandemia. La gente bailaba en las calles y se tocaban bocinas en lugar de aplausos. Los asistentes disfrutaron un poco de rock, jazz, polkas, viejos estándares y algunos cantos largos, acumulando en una versión final sincera de "God Bless America" cantada por todos. El día era hermoso, el sol brillaba, el cielo azul y se recaudaron $ 1,000 para el banco de alimentos. James P. O'Brien ha sido profesor de música en la facultad de la Escuela de Música de la Universidad de Arizona desde 1975 y tiene más de 190 arreglos en línea, que incluyen muchas melodías famosas y también ha lanzado 3 CD. Imagen a continuación: el público se alineó en sus carritos de golf, cuidadosamente espaciados, para disfrutar de la música de manera segura. |
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 Martin Sulc received a Gold Award for the quality of his performance in the 2020 International Video Competition & Promotion of Accordion Music by Gary Daverne.Martin Sulc performed Song of the Far North by Gary Daverne accompanied by Slovak pianist, Aneta Majerová, a graduate of the Žilina Conservatory of Music, Slovakia. 19 year old Martin Sulc is from Trebon, Czech Republic, and has been the winner of various Czech competitions. In 2017, he began studies at the Prague Conservatory with Mgr. Ladislav Horák. In 2018 he won the international accordion competition in Ostrava and the 2018 and 2019 international competitions in Prague. Video of the Gary Daverne composition competition winner, Vladimir Stupnikov can be viewed at: http://www.accordions.com/news.aspx?d=07-Feb-2020&#art16147 |
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by Heather Masefield Secretary, New Zealand Accordion Association
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 The NZAA has announced major changes to the 2020 South Pacific and New Zealand Accordion Championships for Saturday 30 May 2020. The event will not be a public event due to the Covid-19 situation and the number of categories has been reduced to the major South Pacific Accordion Championship categories. The NZ World Accordion Day Concert has also been changed and will now be a video concert without audience. For the South Pacific Championships, the NZAA has booked a small hall, Rose Centre, Devonport, where contestants only will perform without audience, to a small jury. Additionally, the NZAA has also made provision to run these classes digitally by contestants using their phone to video from home if use of the hall is prevented by New Zealand Government Covid-19 regulation. With these plans in place, the competitions will definitely be taking place for these categories and the message by the NZAA to potential entrants is "Keep Practising" as there is definitely going to be a competition. This might be a template for other accordion associations to follow at this difficult time. |
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by Christine Johnstone
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| As Covid-19 has prevented face to face teaching, accordionist Ricardo Llanos has prepared a set of sixty videos for teachers and students. Thank you to Eider for the drawing above. There are four lists of fifteen videos (fifteen because of a quarantine for each list) about basic elements of technique on the accordion: simple accompaniments on standard bass manual, chords and scales in free bass manual, modern harmony chords on standard basses, bellows and articulations. They videos are in Spanish, but explanations in English are given in the comments underneath each video. Download Video information here: QuarantineVideo.pdf In 2017 Ricardo Llanos obtained his PhD with research on acoustics of the accordion in the University of the Basque Country (Spain). The acoustic study of the free reed of the accordion information at: http://www.accordions.com/news.aspx?d=31-Mar-2017&lang=en&s=12889 Ricardo Llanos & Iñaki Alberdi books: in English catalog: comp-en Accordion for Composers in Spanish catalog: comp-sp Acordeon Para Compositores For further details email: ricardollanosvazquez@gmail.com |
by Christine Johnstone
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 Reminder of the past.With many of the world's accordionists in isolation and lockdown because of Covid-19, this video is a nice reminder of what accordionists around the world are looking forward to when Covid-19 is no longer a danger. Video: Martynas in 2016 performs a flashmob concert with the SinChronic string quartet performing Vivaldi at the Vilnius Railway Station, to a delighted audience. Enjoy. |
by Christine Johnstone
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| During the isolation of so many in the USA, international performers Mario Tacca and Mary Mancini Tacca (soprano) have been releasing daily, videos of lovely hymns. Today's hymn, is one of the most well known and loved melodies, "How Great Thou Art", performed by Mario Tacca. Thank you to Mario Tacca and Mary Mancini Tacca for their daily music videos. You can purchase online compositions for acccordion by Mario at: Mario Tacca Enjoy! |
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by Christine Johnstone
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 Email cancelled events to: cjmusic@outlook.co.nz for immediate listingAustralia: Vardos Trio Performance at Yackandandah Folk Festival in Victoria – event cancelled Chaika Band March and April concerts in Victoria, NSW and the ACT, including 3 festivals (River Folk Festival, Yackandandah and the National) - all cancelled Canada: Vancouver Squeezebox Circle live events at Spartacus Books in Vancouver, BC including regular get-togethers, have been suspended indefinitely Croatia: London Accordion Orchestra concert in April - cancelled France: Roman Jbanov has announced that all his Masterclasses for April have been cancelled CNIMA - closed until further notice - news update coming soon Germany: Musikmesse, Musikmesse Plaza 2020 and all Musikmesse Festival events - cancelled 57th Klingenthal International Accordion Competition - cancelled Italy: Accademia del Ridotto Stradella International Music Competition - April - cancelled Malta: 3rd Accordion Festival of Malta - April - cancelled Netherlands: Black Pencil Concert in AT Mook, Limburg - cancelled All April concerts by Black Pencil are also cancelled New Zealand: Music Education Centre Performance Afternoon in Takapuna, Auckland in April - cancelled Milonga de Cuatro concert in Mt Eden Village, Auckland on April 8th - cancelled World Accordion Day concert featuring Coupe Mondiale contestants in Auckland has been cancelled. However, they are planning a live streaming project. Further information to come. Portugal: 24th International Accordion Week organised by Portuguese Accordion Association from May 23rd to 31st, 2020 – cancelled UK: Swaledale Squeeze Concertina Weekend – May 2020 – cancelled Leyland Accordion Club, Lancashire, England - all meetings are suspended until further notice Sinfonia Cymru, Wales - all events cancelled up until April 1st, when further announcements will be made Guildford Accordion Club April meetings cancelled NAO UK Championships 2020 to be held in Liverpool in April - cancelled USA: 2020 National Accordion Convention in Texas - cancelled - they advise that hotel reservations can be cancelled using your confirmation number Milwaukee Accordion Club - all March events cancelled - Future events will be dealt with as the conditions change. AWAM World Accordion Day celebration (May 2nd) and Eighth Annual Dr. Willard A. Palmer Festival (May 3rd) - both cancelled 2020 AAA (American Accordionists Association) July 8th to 12th Festival in Alexandria - cancelled Alex Meixner Band - all concerts cancelled for the next 2 months San Francisco Accordion Club April meeting - cancelled |
by Christine Johnstone
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 Austria:37th Donauinselfest (Danube Island Festival originally scheduled to take place in June) is postponed until September 18th to 20th, 2020 in Vienna. Australia: Fairbridge Festival 2020 in WA, Australia - April - postponed until 9th - 11th April 2021. All 2020 tickets will be valid for the 2021 event Italy: 2020 Val Tidone Music Competitions - postponed indefinitely Russia: All-Russian Day of Bayan, Accordion and Harmonica at RAM Concert Hall Gnesin, Moscow – postponed until May 15th South Africa: World Café Trio Christ Church Concert in Constantia – postponed until August 2nd, 2020 Switzerland: Sharon Shannon & Band concert on April 4th - postponed USA: 2020 Annual ATAM New England Music Festival in Massachusetts - postponed until July 24th to 26th, 2020 San Diego Accordion Camp - postponed until July |
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 The 58th New England Music Festival, 3 day event has been rescheduled at the Newton Marriott Hotel in Newton, Massachusetts from July 24 to July 26th, 2020.The 2020 annual festival includes a musical competition sponsored by the Accordion Teachers Association of Massachusetts, Inc, (ATAM) and festival averages over 1,000 entries and 600 contestants from all across New England. Competition classes include accordion, guitar, bass guitar, drum, percussion, piano, violin and voice in a range of age groups for solo, duet and group categories. Depending on the attendance remaining the same the committee plans to accept new entries from those who were not able to compete in the March event that was postponed. This will include adults not presently enrolled. A final decision will be made and appear in the June 1st issue of the USA News and the AAA Newsletter. The Accordion Teacher’s Association of Massachusetts ATAM is proud to bestow Honorary Membership upon Rita Davidson Barnea (picture left) at the festival. Rita has been the National Editor of the Accordion USA News for the past eleven years. This online monthly publication covering North American continent accordion events, artists, concerts, including video etc. has a huge readership. A new link for hotel reservations will be posted on the website soon. For details phone: 413-204-10 22 |
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by Harley Jones
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 American Accordionists' Association (AAA) has moved on quickly from the 19 March announcement by President Dr. Joseph A. Ciccone "to cancel the AAA Festival 2020 in Alexandria, Virginia."Within the week, the AAA is already advertising the AAA Festival 2021 that will be held July 14-18, 2021 at the Marriott Philadelphia West, PA 19428. 2021 will feature the Festival Orchestra conducted by Mary Tokarski, Competitions, Workshops, Vendors, Youth Involvement, Jazz Ensemble Junior & Senior, Fun Band and "The Divas" being the well known ladies of the AAA - Linda Soley Reed, Mary Tokarski, Beverly Roberts Curnow, Rita Barnea, Joan Grauman, Joanna Darrow, Jeanne Velonis, Marilyn O’Neil and Rachel Quirbach. Further performers will be announced in the coming months. |
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by Dan Grauman
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| Video added Summer Sunshine composed by Stas Venglevski. Sheet music available online, catalog: vstas056 http://www.musicforaccordion.com/inform/vstas/vstas056.htm |
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