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41st “Citta di Castelfidardo” International Accordion Competitions and Festival - Italy2016 Coupe Mondiale Winners Announced, Rostov-on-Don - RussiaVideo: Coupe Mondiale Concerts in Rostov-on-Don - RussiaMika Väyrynen performs World Premiere
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A Show of Camaraderie at Shashank - Lelo Niko Concert, Chennai - IndiaWell paid Gig - Call for Cast for Commercial, New York – USAMarco Lo Russo’s September 11th Commemoration Event, Trento – Italy
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Nuits de Nacre Accordion Festival, Tulle – FranceSanta Maria Accordion Band Concert, Pieta - MaltaGraeme Mitchell @ Highland Accordion & Fiddle Club, Scotland – UKWalter Perrie @ Leyland Accordion Club, Lancashire – UKMartynas Concert Schedule – Switzerland, South KoreaBrazilian Samba + Choro workshop by Vitor Goncalves @ Brooklyn AC, New York – USAFerran Martinez Concert, Barcelona - SpainMidland Accordion Festival @ Dudley, West Midlands – UK
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Two New Works by Douglas Ward, Charnwood Publishing - UKUpdated Site: Franco Cambareri Two New Works Released - AustraliaHelp Desk, Information needed, Readers CommentsSubmit Your Question, CommentSUBMIT NOW |
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| The 41st “Citta di Castelfidardo” International Accordion Competitions and Festival starts on Wednesday 21st September and ends late afternoon, Sunday 25th September. Daily Reports of pictures, video and competition results will be online, evening Tuesday 20th September at: 2016Concorso |
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 The Confédération Internationale des Accordéonistes 69th Coupe Mondiale hosted by the Rostov-on-Don City Administration and "The International Music Center 'IMC-Harmony' of Rostov-on-Don headed by Yuri Shishkin and Alexander Poeluev has announced the winners.Picture right: 69th Coupe Mondiale Champion Aleksandr Komelkov (Russia) and CIA President Raymond Bodell. Video of Prize Winners Concert & Closing Ceremony at: 2016Winners Full Coupe Mondiale results and marks listed at: 2016Results Daily Reports start 11th September at: http://www.coupemondiale.org/2016/ru_coupemain.htm Video of all contestants is online. Video of all the concerts is online. Video Homepage & Video Timetable at: 2016CM-Video |
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by Harley Jones
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| The 2016 Coupe Mondiale included a stunning array of concerts that are all online for your viewing. 12 September Coupe Mondiale Champions Concert at: 2016Champions 13 September Gala-Concert “Stars of Russia” at: 2016Stars 14 September Concert "On the Edge of Accordion" at: 2016Edge 15 September Concert "Rostov Presents" at: 2016Rostov 16 September Prize Winners Concert & Closing Ceremony at: 2016Winners 16 September “Masterpieces of World Music” at: 2016World |
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by Kevin Friedrich
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 Finnish accordionist Mika Vayrynen recently appeared at the The Loviisa Sibelius Festival where he performed the world premiere of Paavo Korpijaakko´s work "Niin Kauan Minä Tramppaan" for Accordion and String Quintet. The work is loosely based on the Finnish folksong of the same name.Previous works for accordion by Paavo Korpijaakko include Metamorphoses for Accordion and Strings, Sonata No. 1 "Ultra" and the Peer Gynt Fantasy, all dedicated to and premiered by Mika Väyrynen. Paavo Korpijaakko is currently working on Sonata No. 2 for solo accordion, which will be premiered 2017 by Mika, during his 50th birthday celebration year. Making his 10th appearance at The Loviisa Sibelius Festival, Mika was also invited to perform the work of the renowned Finnish composer Jouni Kaipainen who passed away in late 2015. His work for solo accordion, called "Placido Op. 68" was premiered by Mika Väyrynen at The Loviisa Sibelius Festival 2009 in the presence of composer. This year piece was performed in his memory. Mika also performed Mussorgsky's Pictures at and Exhibition (complete), Dvorak´s Bagatellen, Ravel's Pavane, Handels Passacaglia and some chamber music by Piazzolla. In addition to Mika, other guest performers at the festival included Jan-Erik Gustafsson (Artistic director of the festival), Anna-Liisa Bezrodny, Linda Bärlund, Alexander Zemtsov, Andrei Baranov, Siret Lust, Diana Ketler and City of Lohja Symphony Orchestra. For more information on Mika and his other World Premiere performances, please visit accordions.com/mika |
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by Lakshmi Sreeram
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 The Park’s New Festival is about new and the contemporary music. To engage with it one needs a different orientation. It is a challenge to assess such performances.This year, the festival brought together flautist Shashank Subramanyam with the European Lelo Niko Trio, comprising accordionist Lelo Niko, bassist Thommy Anderson and Cimbalom player, George Mihalache. Ojas Adhiya from Mumbai was on the tabla. The group had the audience in raptures. The concert showcased the musicians’ virtuosity and zest for music, leaving a strong impression of warm camaraderie among them as they interacted with each other, picking up from where the other left and enjoying each other’s music. Flute and accordion came across as the lead instruments with the bass and the cimbalom mostly providing crucial support of rhythm and texture. Ojas delighted with his joyful playing. The first piece, ‘Hora,’ a composition of Lelo’s, was a riot of colour. Persian in inspiration, with close spaced notes flying off the instruments at dizzying speeds, it left no doubt about the command the musicians wielded over their respective instruments. The second piece began with beautiful movements of raga Hemavati by Shashank, some breathtaking phrases weaving a gentle tapestry that the other musicians dived in and out of. The response of Lelo and Thommy in the middle of the piece was riveting. After the restless frolic of the first piece this did offer oases of tranquillity. ‘The Gypsy Song’ was a purely European affair. The trio played the piece with Lelo leading the other two masterfully, and the three created some classy music. Lelo Niko’s solo interlude showed why he is celebrated. His showmanship came to the fore when he slowly rose from his seat and walked almost precariously on the edge of the stage moving stylishly with his instrument, now cajoling it, now pushing it, now pounding it to finish with a flourish for the audience to break out into applause. The bass player is typically not the most dominating performer on stage and Thommy offered quiet, but strong rhythmic and harmonic support, enhancing the joy of the experience. He offered a traditional dance piece from Northern Sweden. Shashank etched out a landscape of longing with notes from Madhuvanti/Dharmavati scales followed predictably by Ojas’ solo foray, and an enjoyable interaction between the flute and the accordion. George played a short, delightful piece on the cimbalom in seven beats. The cimbalom is classified as a hammered dulcimer, somewhat like the santoor, but with a heavier sound. The piece that was ‘in Kalyani’ did not come together like the others did. There were flashes of brilliance, with the broad sweeps across octaves, by Shashank and the impromptu jamming between Shashank and Lelo. It included an interesting composition of Shashank’s with complex rhythmic structuring. One serious challenge of pitting Carnatic music with other traditions is its use of just intonation. Even if the ‘same’ notes as Kalyani were produced on the accordion, they sounded different because of the variations between even and just/pure tempered scales. But that is something to be overlooked in a venture like this and to their credit there were not too many such jarring moments. Only when Lelo played in quick succession to the flute did this arise on a couple of occasions. Another piece called ‘Mintu’ which transposed scales in quick succession, a difficult feat to pull off on the flute, was followed by the concluding piece, F# Minor. We were told it is a traditional ending piece in Lelo’s culture. It is interesting how traditions across the globe seek to end with minor scales. One marveled at the process of collaboration — of listening to the other, of finding ways to come together, of writing the music, practising it together and finally being able to deliver it with panache on stage. For Ranvir Shah, curator of this festival, “Transnational collaboration shows how our culture engages with other cultures”. Certainly the easy camaraderie and understanding as well as the quality of music suggested that it engages rather well. It takes vision, courage and grit to put together a festival such as this and it is to the credit of Chennai that among the Sankarabharanams and Begadas, it is warmly receptive to this kind of music too. |
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| Treanna Lawrence writes: I work for a casting company called Cast Partner in NY and we are looking for accordion players of all levels for a commercial. I think it could be a really interesting and fun opportunity (and if they are booked the job pays of course). The shoot pays $500 for the rehearsal day, $1000 for the shoot day, and anyone used in the final cut of the commercial will be paid $3000 - so this might be a great opportunity. The project shoots one or two days this month. In order to be considered we just need the interested person to send us a self-tape selfie video showing us their playing. Doesn’t need to be long at all and as mentioned we are looking for people of all levels! Hope to hear from you soon and I would love to answer any questions you may have. For further information email: treanna@castpartner.com |
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 2016 has brought many satisfactions for the accordionist and composer Marco Lo Russo. The prestigious and international Awards Orpheus for the CD ‘Cinematic’, at the beginning of the summer, which anticipated the signing with Universal Music, a large record label; the official release of the album ‘Vida Libre’ by the singer David Blanco, King of the Cuban Pop, has seen the special guest appearance of Marco Lo Russo with his music production company Rouge Sound Production, coordinated by Giulio Vinci.On the occasion of the commemoration of September 11th 2001 for the massacre of the Twin Towers in New York, Marco Lo Russo decided to dedicate a live concert to the memory of the victims of those terrible attacks. On September 11th Marco Lo Russo was the guest of honor, as well as the Artistic Director, at the eighth edition of the Great Festival of Music and Accordion in Grumes, Val di Cembra, Trento, Italy. At the concert Marco Lo Russo performed solos, and as a duo with Giulio Vinci at the piano and, in the best tradition of recent years, with other professionals and friends who also took part in the event. For further information email: press@marcolorusso.info |
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  The annual Nuits de Nacre festival, set for September 15th to 18th, is France’s biggest cultural and musical event dedicated to the accordion. For 4 days, the accordion is everywhere in Tulle, in the streets, on the terraces, cafes and public squares, under the marquees, in the concert halls, at the theatre. Les Nuits de Nacre offers around 90 concerts and activities, most of which are free. The repertoires and musical genres are as varied as the instrument allows: musette or gipsy jazz, rock, contemporary music, world music, and songs. The guests this year include Domi Emorine, William Sabatier, Steve Normandin (Canada), Balbazar, Roland Rominelli, Le Peuple Etincelle, Laurent Jarry, Herve Capel, and many more. For further information email: communication@accordeon.org |
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| On Sunday September 18th, 7pm, the Santa Maria Accordion Band (MD Marthese Busuttil Cassar L.B.C.A.) will be performing a Tal-Pieta Cultural Event concert, to be held at Ta' Fatima Church, St. Monica Street, Pieta, Malta. |
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 Graeme Mitchell and his Scottish Dance Band are the guests at the Highland Accordion & Fiddle Club on Monday September 19th, 7.30pm. The venue is The Waterside Hotel, 19 Ness Bank, Inverness IV2 4SF, Scotland.Graeme Mitchell has been one of Scotland’s best known dance bandleaders since the early 1980s. He also teaches the accordion and is a composer. |
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 Walter Perrie is the guest at the Leyland Accordion Club on Wednesday September 21st, 8pm. The venue is the Priory Club, Broadfield Drive, Leyland, Lancashire PR25 1PD. Helen Rich, on accordion and fiddle, will be performing some duets with Walter Perrie. The club organizer is David Batty.Walter Perrie, an All Scotland Junior Champion in 1966, in the 1970s toured Canada and the USA with Andy Stewart and Kenneth McLellar and the White Heather Group. For further information email: david@accordionclub.co.uk |
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 Lithuanian accordionist Martynas Levickis has the following concert dates for September;September 24th – Accordion Festival, Zug, Switzerland; programme to include works by JS Bach, Tchaikovsky, Martynas Levickis, Richard Galliano, Paganini, Rossini and Vivaldi September 28th – Incheon Seogu Arts Center, Incheon, South Korea; concert with Seo Nee Shin – violin, Kyung Aa Jung – violin, So Ram Yu – viola, and Yoon Su Park - cello September 28th – Seoripul Festival, Sevitseom, Seoul, South Korea; concert with the Seoripul Orchestra (Je Hi Park – conductor), Gayoung Kim – viola, repertoire includes Vivaldi, Trojan, Piazzolla, Paganini September 29th – Seoul Arts Center, South Korea; concert with Sigmund Groven – harmonica, Ivar Antan Vaagaard – piano, repertoire includes Paganini and Mozart For further information email: bethany@martynasmusic.com |
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 On Sunday September 25th, 2.30pm to 5pm, Brooklyn Accordion Club presents a Brazillian Samba + Choro workshop by Vitor Goncalves. Admission is $5 (under 18s are free!).The afternoon’s schedule is: 2.30 - 3pm - Photo shoot (An invitation has been sent to those who qualify to participate). Some of the BAC members will be participating in the photo shoot for a project from 2.30-3pm. The actual club meeting starts at 3pm. Feel free to come early and watch the photo shoot. It was surprisingly very entertaining the last time! 3pm - 3.45pm - Open mic (Have a piece or two to perform? Bring your accordion! First timers and beginners are welcome to perform!) Interested in performing? Please RSVP your spot! 3.50pm - 4.40pm - Brazillian Samba + Choro workshop. The workshop is participatory and open for all levels. B.Y.O.A.! Bring your own accordion (and music stand). Vitor is preparing materials/music sheets for the workshop, which will be emailed on request a few days before the workshop. Vitor Gonçalves is a pianist, accordionist, composer and arranger from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After an illustrious career as an in demand musician in Brazil, playing with such icons as Hermeto Pascoal, Maria Bethânia, Itiberê Zwarg, and many others, in 2012 he made the move to New York City, where he currently resides. Brooklyn Accordion Club meets at 61 Local, 61 Bergen St, Brooklyn, New York. For further information email: brooklynaccordionclub@gmail.com |
by Rob Howard
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 Spanish accordionist Ferran Martinez performs in concert on Saturday October 2nd, 7pm, at OCAB, C/Entença 218, Barcelona.The concert programme includes: Under Paris Skies (H. Giraud), Carnival of Venice (arranged by P. Frosini), Tango For Claude (R. Galliano), Concierto Aranjuez (J.Rodrigo), Trisch-Trasch Polka (J.Strauss), Voices of Spring (J.Strauss), ‘Summer’ from the ‘Four Seasons’ (Vivaldi), Romance (F. Angelis), Ukrainian Variations (A. Kazakov), Don Rhapsody (V. Semionov) For further information email: ferranbayan@gmail.com |
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| The 4th Midland Accordion Festival, organised by Barry Smith, takes place at The Quality Hotel, Birmingham Road, Dudley DY1 4RN, from Friday November 4th to Sunday 6th. The guest artists include Jean Dauvin (France), Steve Roxton, Bruno Continenza (Italy), David Lukins, Jovan Rnjak, The Kennet Accordion Orchestra (MD Nigel Pasby), Harry Hussey, Helen Rich, Rosemary Wright, Nigel Pasby & Helen Newton, Alan Young, Malachy Cairns, and The Master Butchers Band. The festival workshops include: Rosemary Wright - Intermediate Orchestra, Elementary Orchestra – Jean Hanger, Vintage Orchestra – Jean Hanger, Scottish Orchestra – Angie Lukins, and Sue Bennett - One to One tuition. The trade show includes the Birmingham Accordion Centre, Rob Howard Publications, Alan Shute – accordinas, accordions and extras, Harry Kipling’s various souvenirs, and others to be announced. Day passes are available. The festival organiser is Barry Smith. For further information email: accordions2010@hotmail.co.uk |
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 Two new works have been released by well known UK composer and performer Douglas Ward, published by Charnwood Publishing. Catalog No: DW936 Aria No. 1 Standard: Grade 5 Approximate playing time: 2 mins This composition starts quietly, with a treble motif that is slightly haunting in character. It is written in D minor, but travels through several bass chord changes to end in its relative major key – D major. It encourages a really emotional interpretation, almost with the freedom of rubato. The basses take the performer through a range of both solo notes and chords with bass and counter-bass notes, with a few surprises and a melodic ending that almost fades away. The composition requires good bellows control and fingering, and includes numerous phrasing and articulation guidelines. Catalog No: DW937 About Time Standard: Grade 6 Approximate playing time: 2 mins 20 secs This jazzy piece is written mainly in 5/4 with an occasional bar or more in 4/4 time, and is written in Eb major. It helps the performer to count with ease because the treble melody is set in phrases that simply flow well across established time zones. The treble melody has, in part, an underlying melodic counterpart. The bass accompaniment includes a catchy two-bar solo (and a little surprise key change), accents and tied notes to support the swinging feel and rhythmic content. It is based on only one three-note chord, so it can be played on both standard bass and free bass instruments. The Douglas Ward page is now listing over 80 compositions and arrangements of eSheet and printed music available from Charnwood Publishing. Purchase with credit card online. |
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 Franco Cambareri has released two new compositions:cfranco214 - Alla Spagnola Alla Spagnola is a typical Happy Spanish Valse. cfranco215 - Argentango Argentango is a Melodic Tango with a Spanish touch. These works are eSheet (pdf file, able to be emailed to you) and can be purchased online with secure server credit card. |
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