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Accordion Music Festival Zurich-East Switzerlandby Dr Herbert Scheibenreif Manager of Friedrich Lips Productions |
For the second time, the Zurich Cantonal Harmonica Music Association and the East Swiss Accordion Music Association, both sub-associations of Accordion Switzerland, have joined forces for a music festival. Coming from the canton of Zurich and whole East Switzerland, the music lovers met at the College of Technology in Rapperswil-Jona, to make a point of reference in their performance and to cultivate socializing and camaraderie at the festival. A duo as well as a total of 22 orchestras presented themselves in the categories "entertainment" (middle and upper level) and "concertante" (middle, upper and highest level) to two juries formed by Thomi Widmer, Herbert Scheibenreif and Roger Gisler as well as Brigitte Meier-Egloff and Sylvain Tissot. The overall very appealing performances were consistently rated "very good" and "excellent", with the Accordion Ensemble St. Gallen (picture below) and the Accordion Orchestra Schwamendingen (picture above) receiving an additional award. The organizing committee under the Cantonal president Bruno Sommer is to be thanked for the smooth process and to congratulate to the great success of the event! |