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Introducing Samuel Raska, Prague – Czech Republicby Francesca Pigini, Pigini Accordion Factory |
Stanislav Samuel Raska is a Czech accordionist, composer and teacher. His life as accordionist started with the studies of drumming, jazz piano and accordion at a conservatory in the Czech Republic. Now he only plays the accordion and as a musician, he performs with jazz with self-arranged songs, disco and pop music both as soloist and in a band, and also classical piano music. He collaborates in concerts with many musicians (jazz, big band, rock bands, and recently with an orchestra as accordionist and vocal soloist). As a composer, he writes music and lyrics for Sami. He also works as composer for other band and he focuses on accordion. You can find the sheet music of these pieces, shared on his website. Samuel is planning for the future to write a book on music with his own solo accordion pieces. As a teacher, he is working at Prague in a private accordion school and he is currently writing a school accordion textbook focusing on improvisation, playing by ear and the basics of songwriting. Samuel Raska owns a special Pigini accordion in blue and studied with the craftsman of the factory. For further information: francesca.pigini@pigini.com |