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33rd Festival Internazionale Fisarmonica, Castelfidardo – Italyby Rob Howard |
The 33rd annual International Accordion Festival takes place in Castelfidardo from October 13th to 19th. The festival involves a range of competitions for solo, duo, group and orchestras. The closing date for entries is August 31st. The festival also includes concerts and other accordion related events. Under the direction of Paolo Picchio, evening (21,15) concerts at the teatro Astra include: October 13th – Gala Opening Concert 14th – Concert of film sondtrack music 15th – Concert presenting ‘Musictech Digital Accordion Orchestra’ (featuring accordionists Giancarlo Caporilli, Alberto Valguarnera, Gianni Mirizzi, Gennaro Ruffolo, Marco Polidori, Vincenzo Abbracciante, Mirco Azzalin, Heather Smith, Massimo Siviero and Vincenzo De Ritis), and the jazz tango trio “I Tangheri”: Vincenzo Abbracciante - accordion, Antonio Di Lorenzo – drums, and Davide Penta – double bass 16th - Yiddish Cabaret, featuring Moni Ovadia 17th - Balkan folk music with the Martin Lubenov (picture left) Orkestar (Martin Lubenov, Petar Yankov, Kasimir Malakov, Harald Tantschek, Aleksandar Aca Stojic and Stefan Thaler) 18th – ‘Jazz and beyond’, with the Motion Trio: Janusz Wojtarowicz, Pawel Baranek, Marcin Galazyn 19th – Grand Finale concert, featuring competition winners For further information email: prolococ@tiscali.it |