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Concert de Richard Galliano, Saint-Pétersbourg - Russie
Milos Milivojevic Tour Schedule - Angleterre, Australie
Concert fait partie d'honorer Faithe Deffner - USA
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The Occasionals ‘The Full Set’ CD and DVD, Scotland – UK
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David Yengibarjan at the MOL Jazz Festival, Budapest – HungaryRafael Luc Charity Concert, London – UKMika Väyrynen Master Class, Frosinone - ItalyLydie Auvray Tour Dates - GermanyEdmonton Accordion Extravaganza, Alberta – CanadaBernadette Conlon-Zabawa Concert, Milwaukee - USAWalter Perrie Concert, Ellesmere Port – UK‘Echoes of Erin’ Tour – CanadaPärnu Accordion Music Festival, Pärnu - Estonia
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Accordéons 1ere Compétition International On Line sur la mer - Italieby Rob Howard |
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 Photos: Frank Marocco, Romano Viazzani, Gennaro Ruffolo et Giancarlo Caporilli.La première concurrence On Line Internationale d’Accordéons sur la mer est un concours international d'accordéon pour les joueurs solo, ensembles de chambre et des orchestres d'accordéon. Il existe deux catégories d'âge pour les catégories solo, Moins de 17 ans et plus de 18 ans. Les participants auront besoin d'utiliser une caméra vidéo pour enregistrer leur performance, qui devra alors être mis sur YouTube, le lien a également envoyé est: redazione@accordionplanet.net Un jury évaluera la performance et les nouveaux arrivants seront informés de leur score. La cérémonie de remise des prix aura lieu lors de la "Accordéons Cruise Festival ', à bord du paquebot Costa Victoria, du 17 au 24 avril 2010. Les gagnants du concours, s'ils le veulent, peuvent recevoir le prix directement sur le navire. Les «voiles Accordéons Cruise Festival 'de Venise (Italie), et des visites d'Ancona (Italie), Santorin (Grèce), Mykonos (Grèce), Atene / Pirée (Grèce), Corfou (Grèce), Dubrovnik (Croatie), et en revenant à Venise. L'organisateur est Donato Di Tullio. L'invité des artistes à bord incluent Frank Marocco, Romano Viazzani, Giancarlo Caporilli, Heather Smith, Ricardo Taddei, Gianni Mirizzi, et Gennaro Ruffolo. Le festival comprend des concerts flotter chaque jour, des ateliers, master classes, une foire commerciale comportant des présentations de produits par MusicTech, Accordéons Vignoni et accordéons Beltrami, etc Cette compétition - pour accordéons acoustiques et accordéons MIDI - aura lieu seulement s'il ya un minimum de 50 candidats! Les droits d'inscription sont de 50 euros. La date de clôture des inscriptions est le 31 Décembre. Pour de plus amples informations email: redazione@accordionplanet.net |
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Concert de Richard Galliano, Saint-Pétersbourg - Russieby Rob Howard |
 Le fameux accordéoniste français Richard Galliano est en concert au Temirkanov Grand Philharmonic Hall, St-Pétersbourg, le 2 Octobre, 19h. Richard Galliano (né en 1950) est l'un des accordéonistes les plus accomplis de renommée internationale, et exécute devant des salles de concerts à travers le monde. Un musicien innovateur, Galliano a élaboré la "New Musette" il ya quelques années qui est souvent dit que la musique musette est ce que Astor Piazzolla "Tango Nuevo" a été à la musique tango. Ce lieu, qui a ouvert en 1802, a vu se produire par de nombreux musiciens célèbres, dont Franz Liszt, G. Berlioz, Richard Wagner, Gustave Mahler, Arturo Rubinstein, P. Viardo, P. Sarasate, et d'autres. Pour de plus amples informations email: info@BalletAndOpera.com |
Milos Milivojevic Tour Schedule - Angleterre, Australieby Rob Howard |
 L'accordéoniste Milos Milivojevic effectue trois concerts dans des salles à l'intérieur et près de Londres, et se dirige alors entamer un long voyage en Australie. Rapports d'audience de la dernière tournée en Australie sont excellentes si recommandée à nos lecteurs australiens. L'horaire des visites est le suivant: 18 Septembre - avec l'ensemble Kosmos, «La Musique dans le calme Places», dans le cadre du Festival Oundel, Northamptonshire 19 á 18h - au paprika Balkanicus, à la WOMAD Festival, Tour de Londres, Londres 23, 19h30 - Concert avec Taro Hakase (violon) et Maciej Janas (piano) au Cadogan Hall, Londres 28/29, 19h - Spiegeltent QUT, Brisbane Festival Octobre 1, 19h - Spiegeltent QUT, Brisbane Festival 2, 18h - Coorabell Hall, Coorabell, NSW 3, 20h - Global Carnival, Bellingen, NSW 4, 17h - Global Carnival Bellingen, NSW 6, 20h15 - Le théâtre Clarendon, Katoomba, Blue Mountains, NSW 7 et 8, 20h - The Studio, Sydney Opera House 9 20h - Lizotte, Kings Theatre de Newcastle, NSW 10, 20h - Hôtel Heritage, Bulli, NSW 11, 18h - le théâtre de rue, Canberra 15, 21h - Forum Theatre, Melbourne International Arts Festival Pour de plus amples informations email: milosmusic@hotmail.com |
Concert fait partie d'honorer Faithe Deffner - USAby Rob Howard |
 Dimanche, 20 Septembre, 12h30, à la Tavern on the Green, Central Park West et 67eme St, New York, l'Association des Accordéonistes américains honoreront longtemps membre et ancien président de (American Accordionists' Association ) AAA Faithe Deffner pour son extraordinaire contribution au monde de l’ accordéon (Lifetime Achievement). Le comité de planification de l'événements, dirigé par le Dr Salvatore Febbraio, comprend Frank Busso, Sr., le docteur Joseph Ciccone, Kevin Friedrich, Joan Grauman, Marilyn O'Neil, Dr. William Schimmel, et AAA présidente Linda Soley Reed. Le comité a organise un concert qui va commencer immédiatement après le déjeuner. Concertistes incluts: The Trio Busso, Beverly Roberts Curnow, Karen Fremar, Guy Klucevsek, Dee Langley, Alexander Poeluev - 2004 Coupe Mondiale Champion de Russie, le Dr William Schimmel, Mary Tokarski, vous promenant d'un trio de Washington, DC, mettant en vedette Frank Busso, Jr. à l'accordéon et d'autres a être annoncée. Faithe Deffner a été président AAA de 1985 à 1986 puis de 1995 à 2000. Plus récemment, elle a coordonné la Coupe Mondiale 2007. Cette année marque le 75eme anniversaire d' Ernest Deffner Inc, les fabricants de Titano et Pancordion, Nord-américaine de distributeurs Pigini, éditeurs de musique. Il y aura un important rapport de cet événement historique avec de nombreuses photos ci-jointes dans les nouvelles de la semaine prochaine. |
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 The Occasionals, led by accordionist Freeland Barbour, are one of Scotland’s most admired ceilidh bands. ‘The Full Set’ is a combined CD and DVD package, featuring Scottish dance music plus a booklet providing complete dance instructions. Included on the CD/booklet: 12 Dance Sets & 4 Bonus Tracks (CD of the music features ‘Alec & Hazel Barbour’, ‘Tinker's House’, ‘Nineteenth Century Set’, ‘American Set’, ‘Old Victoria’, ‘Dashing White Sergeant’, ‘Soor Milk Cairt’, ‘Wild Colonial Boy’, ‘Lake Louise’, ‘Soldier's Dance’, ‘John MacDonald & Old Favourites’; bonus tracks include ‘The Friendly Waltz’, ‘The Russian Ballet’, ‘The Full Set Polka’, and ‘The Orkney Eva Three Step’. The DVD includes demonstrated instructions for 12 of the dances Set plus a one hour documentary of The Occasionals on tour. For further information email: info@concordemusic.com |
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 The 6th MOL Jazz Festival takes place from September 17th to 21st. The Big Tent and the jazz-boat, anchored at the Nehru Embankment, are the main venues, although the opening and the final concerts will be staged at Budapest’s state-of-the-art Palace of Arts (MÜPA). Other performances will take place in the Ráday Street cafés and the Pinceszínház (Cellar Theatre), the Sanyi és Aranka Theatre and at the Hotel Ibis.Amongst the many guest artistes will be the virtuoso Armenian-Hungarian accordionist David Yengibarjan. David Yengibarjan (born 1976) moved from Armenia to Hungary in 1995, and is one of the most well-known and sought-after accordionists. He has participated in a great number of theatrical and film productions both as a performer (Bertold Brecht: ‘Jungle of the Cities’, Andor Lukáts: ‘Portugal’, Joye Sergent: ‘Crime and Punishment’) and as a composer (Ferenc Molnár: ‘Liliom, András Szoke’: ‘Three’, György Farkas: ‘Blood Line’, András Fésos: ‘Street Heart Beat’, Zoltán Egressy: ‘Blue, Blue, Blue’, Tamás Sas: ‘Struck by Love’, Kinga Rófusz: ‘Harlequin’, Andor Szilágyi: ‘Letters Unsent’). He has played in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Vienna, and Edinburgh. He founded his own group, the Trio Yengibarjan, in 1999, after recording the film music of ‘Holstein Lovers’ (which has a tango theme). His aspiration is to create a fusion of the Argentinean tango, the ‘New Tango’ of Astor Piazzolla, and various types of folk music. On his CD, ‘Tango Passion’, he plays with József Horváth Barcza (bass) and Gábor Juhász (guitar. |
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 Polish accordionist Rafael Luc, a student at London’s Royal Academy of Music, and the Brooks Quartet, a string quartet (also students at the RAM), are in concert at Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill, London, on September 20th, 11.30am. Rafael, aged 22, from Wroclaw, Poland, began performing concerts when he was 10, and had given over 200 recitals by the time he was 13. He has since performed in recitals and with orchestras in Poland, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and England. The concert is to raise funds for the Elias Fawcett Trust. The trust was set up by the family of Elias Fawcett, a promising guitarist, after his death at the age of 18. The trust uses its funds to create concert opportunities for promising young musicians. |
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 Finnish accordionist Mika Väyrynen will conduct a Master Class at the “L. Refice Conservatory of Music” in Frosinone, Italy from September 21st – 24th. The Master Class is in conjunction with the accordion program at the Conservatory under the direction of Adriano Ranieri. In recent months, Mika has conducted Master Class sessions in Spain, Serbia and France, in addition to his regular teaching position at the Sibelius Academy of Music in Helsinki. For more information, please visit the Mika Väyrynen website. |
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 Leading German accordionist Lydie Auvray performs as follows:September 30th - Rex-Theater, Wuppertal, Germany October 1st – Weberei, Gütersloh 2nd - KuZ Eichberg, Eltville (am Rhein) 3rd – Kaue, Gelsenkirchen 29th – Kammgarn, Kaiserslautern 30th – Museum, Helmbrechts For further information email: Scala.Weissenberger@t-online.de |
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| The 14th Accordion Extravaganza Festival runs from September 25th to 27th in Edmonton, Alberta, organised jointly by Enes Upright and Gloria Grainger. The main venues are the Central Lions Seniors Recreation Centre and the South East Edmonton Seniors Centre (SEESA). The festival includes competitions, and musical styles range from polkas to classical. "Our youngest person competing is six years old," Upright says. "Our oldest is in their 80s." Aside from the competitions, the Accordion Extravaganza Festival also features a trade show, open stage, a workshop, Saturday dance with The Cimarrons and a concert by the acclaimed Ulster Accordion Band (which has played at the Disney World Christmas Parade, Branson Missouri Veterans Concert and Juno Beach ceremonies, France). For further information email: accordion@gerl.ca |
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 Bernadette Conlon-Zabawa, originally from Australia, now living in Illinois, is the guest at the Milwaukee Accordion Club on September 28th, 8pm. She was born with an eye disease and has achieved the status of a world class accordionist in spite of her visual handicap. She will be performing a Las Vegas style program with her husband, Ed Zabawa, at the September 28th meeting of the Milwaukee Accordion Club.For further information email: gsmeiska@wi.rr.com |
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 Ex-All Scotland Champion Walter Perrie is in concert at Chester Accordion Club on September 29th, 8pm. The venue is the Castro Sports & Social, Chester Road, Whitby, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.For further information email: limccallum@dsl.pipex.com |
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| The ‘Echoes of Erin’ tour of Canada takes place from the end of September, through October. Organised by the Irish based Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, the tour party includes players of the accordion, concertina, fiddle, banjo, flute and harp, plus singers and dancers. The accordionist is Darren Breslin, 2008 All Ireland Senior Button Accordion Champion. The concertina player, Aisling McMahon, is also one of the dancers. The tour dates are: September 30th, 7.30pm - Community Centre, Shannon, Quebec October 1st, 7.45pm - Centre for Performing Arts, Montreal 2nd, 8pm - National Library and Archives, Ottawa, Ontario 3rd, 7.30pm - Navy League Hall, Sudbury, Ontario 4th, 2pm - West Ferris High School, North Bay, Ontario 5th, 7.30pm - Bear Creek Sec. School, Barrie, Ontario 7th, 7.30pm - Holy Cross High School, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 8th, 7.30pm - Canadian Christian College, Regina, Saskatchewan 9th, 8pm - Manitou Opera House, Manitou, Manitoba 10th, 8pm - West End Cultural Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba For further information email: enquiries@comhaltas.com |
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 The 27th Pärnu Accordion Music Festival, originally a one day event, has over the years grown into an international festival held over several days. During the festival a competition for bands and orchestras takes place, and the number of contestants has grown to over 200.For further information email: onnelateearu@hot.ee |
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