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La compétition “l’accordéon joyeux” de variété russe, Nijni Novgorod - Russie
3ième festival d’accordéon à Cremona Musica - Italie
Retransmission du 21 juillet. Texte du site de la BBC :
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Kevin Friedrich Presents Sell Out “Mid Winter Melodies” Concert – New ZealandAccordionists Featured on Television Culture Channel - RussiaCNIMA Full Year Accordion Studies Information - FranceRebel Reed Summer Sessions 2020 – USAAccordionists Entertain at 90th Birthday Celebrations in Brühl – GermanyKallis Bengtsson Summer Evening Church Concerts - SwedenCancelled: Fairport Cropredy Convention - EnglandMartina Jembrišak “Ave Maria” Video - CroatiaDr William Schimmel’s New CD: “Dragonfly”
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Stas Venglevski Performs World Premiere, Superior – USAAugust Accordion Summer School Seminar – Czech Republic"Milonga De Cuatro" Five Tango Sensations, Auckland – New ZealandMelodeon Study Week at Halsway Manor, Somerset – UK
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C’est officiel: 2020 Coupe Mondiale aura lieu à Castro Marim - Portugalby Kimmo Mattila Secretary General, Confédération Internationale des Accordéonistes (CIA) |
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 Le jeudi 16 juillet dernier, lors d’une réunion en ligne de la Confédération Internationale des Accordéonistes (CIA), le président du CIA (photo ci-dessus), Mirco, a présenté la situation du Covid-19 au Portugal. Il a relaté le rendez-vous vidéo du CIA avec Mito Algarvio (membre du CIA Portugal et hôte pour 2020) et le représentant municipal de Castro Marim, du lundi 13 juillet.Après analyse de l’évolution de la pandémie, il a été établi que Mito Algarvio et la municipalité de Castro Marim étaient prêts de manière sure, à organiser la Coupe Mondiale 2020, en octobre. Il y’aura des restrictions et un protocole de sécurité devra être suivi, mais tout cela peut être mis en place. Les restrictions de voyage, notamment en Europe, sont presque finies, bien que certains pays soient encore fermés. D’ici octobre, voyager devrait être plus facile. Les connections en avion sont de plus en plus possibles. Les billets d’avion de la Chine sont encore pour le moment très cher. Pour la Russie on devrait avoir plus d’informations d’ici quelques semaines. Aux USA et en Amérique du Sud, la situation est encore très mauvaise. La pandémie du corona évolue de jour en jour, mais heureusement en général vers une amélioration. De ce fait le comité exécutif de la CIA a décidé de manière unanime à chaleureusement accueillir les compétiteurs, le jury et le public pour la 73ième Coupe Mondiale 2020 au Portugal! La semaine prochaine, le président de la CIA Mirco Patarini annoncera plus de détails à travers un entretien. |
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La compétition “l’accordéon joyeux” de variété russe, Nijni Novgorod - Russieby Ivan Dyma, SaxAkkord Duo |
 La compétition de variété russe, ‘l’accordéon joyeux » se tiendra du 3 au 6 décembre 2020 à Nijni Novgorod.La compétition aura des catégories solistes, de groupes et d’orchestres. Les inscriptions seront prises à partir du 1er septembre 2020 et leur clôture aura lieu le 1er novembre 2020. Pour être qualifié, il faut s’inscrire avant la date limite en écrivant à : vesakkordeon@gmail.com Le jury sera constitué de Yuri Viktorovich Brusentsev (président du jury), Gennady Vasilyevich Mamaykov, Vitaly Dmitriev, Eduard Akhanov et Venedikt Vladimirovich Veneun. Télécharger le règlement et le dossier d’inscription pour l’accordéon joyeux, en russe, ici: 2020MerryAccordionRules.pdf |
3ième festival d’accordéon à Cremona Musica - Italieby Christine Johnstone |
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| La troisième édition du plus jeune festival d’accordéon italien à été confirmée, à Crémone, dans le nord de l’Italie,du 25 au 27 septembre 2020. Des règles de sécurité pour la distanciation sociale pour tous, aussi bien pour les exposants que pour les visiteurs, seront mises en place. Les organisateurs on une halle pour le “spectacle de l’accordéon” qui est dédié à l’accordéon et tous les instruments à soufflet. Il s’y déroulera évènements, conférences, présentations et prestations musicales … Pour plus de détails email : info.turismo@comune.cremona.it |
Retransmission du 21 juillet. Texte du site de la BBC :by Christine Johnstone |
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| YolanDa Brown et son groupe, Jaminals, joue pour un public d’enfants appelé les « Band Jammers » : musique en live et invités! Invité à cet episode par YolanDa: le grand accordéoniste, Martynas Levickis. Martynas explique comment l’accordéon fonctionne – on regarde le clavier, les boutons et le soufflet. Martynas montre aux Band Jammers (les enfants) les lames à l’intérieur de l’accordéon, qui constituent un instrument par elles mêmes. Ensuite le Fact Jam explore encore plus loin l’accordéon. Puis Martynas joue un tango avant d’être invité par YolanDa et les Band Jammers à faire un boeuf tous ensemble, à la fin du programme : tout le monde danse sur un morceau de Despacito. |
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 The Lighthouse Function Center at the Dargaville Museum (New Zealand) was filled to capacity for a variety show featuring accordionist Kevin Friedrich. With New Zealand having been free of Covid 19 in the community for almost three months, large group events have been allowed to resume to pre-Covid levels, enabling a full house concert setting, something that is a rarity in today’s world. Kevin has hosted many such shows in his home town of Dargaville, and always attracts a sellout crowd who enjoy the variety of performances in many musical genres. This particular concert was offered as a thank you to all the Essential Service workers in numerous capacities as well as the friends, family and community as a whole for uniting together during the ever changing challenges faced in dealing with the global pandemic. The shows always feature the accordion in a variety of settings accompanied by guest artists. For this concert, Kevin was joined by Thomas Koloi (piano), Jone Yelcich, Ros Gilmour and Lynn Walters (Vocalists) and the popular local vocal sextet ‘Take Six’. A highlight of the afternoon was the unveiling of one of the newest additions to Kevin’s Accordion Gems accordion exhibition, a stunning Maga Ercole Dimascio Florentino double keyboard,160 bass accordion (picture above). Maga Ercole is one of the oldest continuing accordion companies from Stradella, Italy dating from 1895. Performing a work by New Zealand composer Gary Daverne, Kevin gave a glimpse into the century old history of this unique and beautifully designed instrument. Another feature of the show was a moving tribute to the late Dame Vera Lynn who recently passed away at age 103. Vera Lynn gave her life to supporting the armed forces and other causes such as Disabled Children and Breast Cancer and the cast and audience joined together for rousing performances of two of her signature pieces ‘The White Cliffs of Dover’ and ‘We’ll Meet Again’. As is customary for the Dargaville shows, the concert concluded with a finale of New Zealand traditional pieces with audience participation. Kevin’s next scheduled accordion show is on November 29th when he will present his Christmas Extravaganza. |
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  Video: The recording of the broadcast from 29th June, in Russian language.Russian television culture channel program The Observer featured accordionists in their program entitled “A Word about Harmonica” on June 29th, 2020, hosted by Yulia Pankratova. Guests included Friedrich Lips (picture left), People's Artist of Russia, Professor, Head of the Bayan and Accordion Department at the Russian Academy of Music. Gnesin; Maria Vlasova (picture right), musician, assistant professor of bayan and accordion of the Russian Academy of Music. Gnesin; Andrey Ustinov, musicologist, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Musical Review"; and Joseph Puritz, musician. |
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| Video: Seong Hui, Korean student from 2015 to 2018 performs and talks about her time at CNIMA. CNIMA directed by Nathalie Boucheix and Jacques Mornet offers a full year accordion program (renewable as needed). This program is catered for “want-to-be” professionals and “in-the-making” international virtuosos. But it also accepts people from all level, all background and all ages, who are passionate about the instrument. The 20 hours a week program, is divided between individual accordion classes (2 to 3 per week) and group classes in harmony, music theory, accordion technique, chamber music etc The school gives the possibility to pass French national music conservatory diplomas (Certificat d'Etudes Musicales - CEM end Diplome d'Etudes Musicales - DEM), enabling students, through the intense studying, to accomplish in one year, what they would usually do in 4 years. Students can live full board at the school, or rent an apartment in the local village. Set in the beautiful volcano region of Auvergne the school is known for its family spirit and very affordable fees. Jacques Mornet's teaching approach has proved itself through time, with a unique success rate of 104 first international prizes in accordion competitions around the globe. Upcoming classes as follows: Accordion technique with Jacques Mornet and Nathalie Boucheix July 20th – 25th 2020 July 27th - August 1st 2020 August 3rd – 8th 2020 Accordion repertoire: July 20th -24th 2020 - Celtic music with Alain Pennec For further details email: cnima@orange.fr |
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 Video: “Anniversary Song” performed by Dallas Vietty (accordion) and Michael Nikolidakis (guitar).Accordionist Dallas Vietty (picture left) will tutor the Rebel Reed summer classes which will be offered live on Zoom throughout July, August and September, 2020. Fun and engaging, these classes smoothly guide the student building music theory (melody, harmony and rhythm) and musicianship (ear training, singing, clapping). Dallas is an accordion player and teacher, who works from the approach that “music is a language that we need to: speak, hear, read and write." |
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 The Akkordeon-Orchester Wesseling duo of Anita Brandtstäter and Elena Taran entertained at the 90th birthday celebrations of the Kaiserbahnhof Brühl Restaurant in Brühl, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany last week.The duo gave a popular one hour varied program which included “Happy Birthday” (of course) as well as some sing-a-long tunes "Two Little Italians", "Caprifischer" and "Heimweh nach Köln". |
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 Video: Kallis Bengtsson (picture left) has been performing Summer Evening Music Concerts during July at the Sandhult Church in Borås, Sweden. |
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 Video: Neckbelly/Gaffo's Ball performed by Sharon Shannon & Alan Connor 'In Galway' recording at O'Connors Bar Salthill.Popular accordionist Sharon Shannon (picture left) and her band were due to perform at the annual Fairport Cropredy Convention in Cropredy, Oxfordshire, England in August, however the 2020 event has been cancelled due to Covid-19. Organisers are currently organising the 2021 event and all tickets from 2020 will be honoured at the 2021 event. |
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 Croatian accordionist Martina Jembrišak (picture right) has teamed up with Divna Šimatovic (guitar) to bring you this beautiful version of Ave Maria (Franz Schubert). |
by Rita Davidson Barnea, Editor USA Accordion News
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 William Schimmel (accordion) and Peter Jarvis (percussion) have combined their talents to create a new CD, “Dragonfly”. The CD is a collection of duos, composed and improvised music for accordion, percussion, and voice. The digital release on NAXOS will be on September 6th, 2020.Dr William Schimmel is a leading accordionist, composer and academic, based in New York, USA, where he organizes the annual “Master Class and Concert Series (The Seminars)” sponsored by the American Accordionists' Association. He received a Merit Award from the AAA for his contributions spanning fifty years plus the "Accordionist of the Year" Award in 1988 and the CIA Merit Award in 2003. He has performed with many major symphony orchestras in the US, many chamber groups, as well as with rock), jazz, and avant-garde groups. Peter Jarvis is a percussionist, drummer, conductor, composer, music copyist, print music editor and college professor as well as the Director of New Music at William Paterson University. For further information: accordionbill@gmail.com Picture below: CD track list |
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  Stas Venglevski (picture left) will perform the world premiere of Josh Schmidt's composition "Eleven for Accordion" at the Hanni Strahl Concert Hall, Harrington Arts Center, A World of Accordions Museum (AWAM) in Superior, WI on July 19th. Josh Schmidt (picture right) has chosen Stas to present this world premier composition and he will be present at the concert.In addition to Schmidt’s compositions, Stas will perform his charmingly picturesque “Petting Zoo Suite”, several new compositions (and a few of our favorites), followed by “Taquito Militar”, a milonga by Mariano Mores, and “Rocky Top” by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant. The following day, July 20th, Stas will give a Tango Workshop from 2pm at the same venue. All attendees are requested to wear masks and social distancing will be in place along with disinfecting wipes and gloves. For details phone: 218-393-0245 |
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| The Summer Accordion School Dobrany will hold a seminar with tutors Ladislav Horák and Petr Vacek in Dobrany, Czech Republic from 21st to 23rd August, 2020. See poster above for details. |
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| Quartet "Milonga De Cuatro" (which includes accordionist Lian Jones) will perform "Five Tango Sensations" by Astor Piazzolla at a concert on August 30th, 2020 at the Nathan Homestead in Manurewa, Auckland at 5pm. Astor Piazzolla's "Five Tango Sensations" is a suite of works written in Tango Nuevo style and is a "work of tragic beauty". This is the last piece that the composer wrote and recorded in his life. The concert will also include other works by Piazzolla as well as music of Eduardo Rovira (Argentina). For details email: nataliameyta@yahoo.com |
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| Video: Petit Piment - Belle dans ton jardin - Ronde du Quercy Lucas Thébaut: accordion Arnaud Bibonne: vocals Léo Danais: drums Florian Huygebaert: percussion A melodeon study week will be held from October 12th to 16th at Halsway Manor, Halsway Lane, near Crowcombe, Somerset, UK. The event organisers welcome two of Europe’s most exciting exponents of the diatonic button accordion to teach this extended course for advanced, and advanced-intermediate level players. Benjamin Macke (Belgium) and Lucas Thébaut (France) are consummate performers and teachers, and this week offers a rare opportunity to study with them in the UK. This will be an intensive week of skills-based learning focusing on your development as a musician, discovering new ways to interpret and play, and to make the music your own. Halsway Manor has deliberately chosen two musicians with a lot in common, but also with quite different backgrounds and repertoire so you’ll benefit from contrasting approaches in their playing and teaching. You need to be open to trying new things, and to be prepared to work hard. It will be intensive but also an enjoyable and rewarding week, with time to relax in the evenings and enjoy informal sessions. The group, limited to approximately 20 students, will be split in two by the tutors at the start of the course; you’ll spend roughly the same amount of time with each tutor. This will be done according to ability level but there’s plenty of informal time to meet, chat and play with others. This course is for advanced and advanced-intermediate level players of the DG melodeon (If you also have a box in GC, bring it as well). For details email: office@halswaymanor.org.uk |
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Parution des 12 compositions tango brûlantes de Stas Venglevski - USAby Harley Jones |
  Stas Venglevski vient de publierCatalogue vstas063 "Douze compositions tango pour accordéon solo” en livret pdt, qu’il peut vous faire parvenir par email : 01. Busy Fingers Tango 02. Elephants Tango 03. Meg Tanguera 04. Invite Tango 05. Tango for Two 06. Lonely Dancer 07. Tango Pasadena 08. Tango Mobile 09. Ecstasy Tango 10. One Tulip 11. Yellow Roses 12. Meg Tango. Ecouter des extraits en ligne pour chaque tango dans le catalogue vstas063 Prix US$25 ou equivalent en euros Voir CD's et albums mp3 albums et autre compositions de Stas à : Stas Venglevski |
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 Gary Daverne releases two new accordion orchestra compositions.ED0091a - Bob the Bandsman March for accordion ensemble/orchestra Score ED0091b - Bob the Bandsman March for accordion ensemble/orchestra all parts ED0092a - Hokianga Hornpipe Accordion ensemble/orchestra Score ED0092b - Hokianga Hornpipe Accordion ensemble/orchestra All Parts Free download of the score so the Conductor or the Music Director can view the complete score. |
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