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2009 Strumente & Musica Spring Festival, Spoleto-Italia
Roland Corporation Anuncia su Patrocinio para la Coupe Mondiale 2009
Mika Väyrynen y la Tampere Philarmonic-Finlandia
Éxito de Acordeonistas, Joven Intérprete del año de North Shore-Nueva Zelanda
Reports for Concerts, Masterclasses, Competitions, Festivals, etc. |
World Accordion Day‘Accordions International 2009’, Blackpool – UKChico Chagas wins 1st Prize in Jazz Festival, Kaunas - Lithuania
Future events |
4th Festival of Accordion Music ‘From Baroque to Jazz’, Wroclaw - Poland‘The Art of Accordion’ Concert at Carnegie Hall, New York - USAAkkordeonorchester Klingenthal e.V. to Loreto & Castelfidardo – ItalyInternational Accordion Competition “Ascoltate 2009” - LithuaniaPeter Soave in concert, Lausanne - SwitzerlandSt Audries Bay Summer Accordion Week 2009, Somerset – UK3rd Accordion Art Festival and Contests 2009, Mosciano – ItalyBruno Maurice Master Class at Académie Festival des Arcs 2009, Savoie - FranceRenzo Ruggieri Presents Exhibitions by Marco Goldin, Rimini, Udine - Italy
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Rob Howard new book releaseFranco Cambareri new worksSalvatore Cauteruccio new CDsSemion Shmelkov new CDs
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Selección Nacional de Roland Italiaby Holda Paoletti-Kampl |
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| La selección para el 2009 Roland International Festival (2009 Italy National Selection (Selezione Nazionale) se celebrará el 21 de Noviembre de este año en Roma |
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2009 Strumente & Musica Spring Festival, Spoleto-Italiaby '2009 Spring Instruments & Music Festival’ |
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| Este (2009 Strumenti & Musica Spring Festival) festival ha sido celebrado del 15 al 17 de mayo, el cual incluyó un seminario y conciertos de la mano de Viatcheslav Semionov y Renato Borghetti con su banda. Los dos mejores concursantes italianos serán representados por la IAC (Italian Accordon Culture) en concepto de dietas y desplazamientos para la Coupe Mondiale 2009 que se llevará acabo en Auckland, Nueva Zelanda. Artículos diarios sobre la 2009 Strumente & Musica Spring Festival (2009 Strumenti & Musica Spring Festival ) han sido publicados via online. |
Roland Corporation Anuncia su Patrocinio para la Coupe Mondiale 2009by Roland Corporation |
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 Roland Corporation ha anunciado su patrocinio de la nueva categoría de acordeón digital en la Coupe Mondiale 2009 que se celebrará en North Shore City, Nueva Zelanda, durante el mes de agosto.Roland es líder en la fabricación de instrumentos musicales, incluyendo su V-Accordion, el primer modelo de acordeón digital del mundo. Como patrocinador, Roland expondrá su gama completa de V-Accordion en el Bruce Mason Centre desde el 25 al 29 de agosto. Roland Autralia & NZ, contará con dos invitados especiales para la promoción del V-Accordion en la Coupe Mondiale 2009 El primero es Luigi Bruiti, director de marketing para Roland Europe. Bruti ha sido la figura fundamental para el desarrollo del V-Accordion y la creación desde el 2007 del V-Accordion Festival, una competición internacional que atrae a algunos de los mejores acordeonistas del mundo. Un renombrado acordeonista como es Luigi Bruti ayudará con sus conocimientos y experiencia a mostrar el V-Accordion a todo aquel interesado en este instrumento. Por otra parte, Ludovic Beier es la segunda personalidad invitada al evento. Beier es uno de los más importantes exponentes del acordeón jazz, el cual mostrará su talento con el V-Accordion la noche del 27 de agosto en la Coupe Mondiale. Durante esta actuación Beier mostrará en primicia mundial las últimas innovaciones realizadas al V-Accordion. Además, Ludovic aparecerá en un concierto más informal de temática francesa el viernes 28 de agosto. Beier es un emocionante e inspirador acordeonista el cual muestra un show que no deben perderse las personas que tengan la oportunidad de asistir a la Coupe Mondiale. Brenda Callinan, Sales and Marketing Manager de Roland Australia & NZ afirma “ el lanzamiento del Roland FR7 V-Accordion en 2004, fue la culminación de muchos años de investigación y diseño, siendo la propia ambición cumplida del fundador de Roland, Ikutaro Kakehashi: producir un acordeón Roland que hiciera justicia con la historia y tradición del instrumento y la dedicación de Roland por romper los límites tecnológicos, enriqueciendo así su ya dilatada tradición musical…Nos sentimos muy contentos asistiendo a esta unión de buenos músicos y tecnología creativa dentro de la Coupe Mondiale y esperamos una duradera y fructífera relación con la Confederation Internationale des Accordeonistes” Para más información Roland : www.roland.com |
Mika Väyrynen y la Tampere Philarmonic-Finlandiaby Kevin Friedrich |
 El pasado 16 de abril, el acordeonista Finlandés Mika Väyrynen interpretó el concierto “Profecía”, escrito por Erkki-Sven Tüür junto a la Orquesta Filarmónica de Tampere, dirigida por el maestro Okko Kamu. Este destacado director fue el ganador del prestigioso concurso Herbert Von Karajan en 1969.Con más de 1100 asistentes ocupando el Tampere Hall, el concierto tuvo la siguiente crítica “La actuación de Mika Väyrynen puede ser descrita solamente con una palabra: ¡Fenomenal!”. Completando su trabajo con el acordeón clásico, Mika finalizó recientemente un proyecto de grabación con bandoneón para la NBC finlandesa. Väyrynen durante los últimos meses, ha estado visitando España mostrando su faceta pedagógica, ofreciendo sus conocimientos y experiencia en una serie de master clases para alumnos de postgrado en el Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón (Zaragoza, España) y volviendo una vez más al Conservatorio Superior de música “Eduardo Martínez Torner” (Oviedo, España) para brindar nuevamente sus consejos a los acordeonistas asistentes a sus master clasess. A la vez que Mika se prepara para una apretada agenda de conciertos para este verano, esta finalizando su último nuevo Cd llamado “Misterium”, nombre del último trabajo (Sonata No. 7) del fallecido Anatoli Kusjakov. Este cd será lanzado a la venta el próximo otoño. |
Éxito de Acordeonistas, Joven Intérprete del año de North Shore-Nueva Zelandaby Heather Masefield |
 La North Shore Performing Arts Competition Society celebró su competición de acordeón el pasado fin de semana y la clasificación para el National Young Performer del año.Esta competición esta abierta para todos los instrumentos, siendo 8 el número de participantes presentados al certamen. La ganadora del concurso fue el acordeonista Jessica Chen, obteniendo casi la máxima puntuación posible. Jessica y la violinista Stella kim (segunda posición) competirán en la final nacional en Invercargill el próximo mes de Octubre. Eddie Giggney fue el ganador de la categoría más alta, siendo Stephanie Panzic la segunda clasificada. Estos tres acordeonistas son parte de un equipo de desarrollo organizado por la asociación Neozelandesa de acordeón (New Zealand Accordion Association) para representar jóvenes acordeonistas en la Coupe Mondiale 2009. |
Reports for Concerts, Masterclasses, Competitions, Festivals, etc. |
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 A large number of events on or near May 6th, World Accordion Day, took place in many countries. Austria, Canada, China, Finland, Germany, Guatemala, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom, USA and Vietnam. Reports on many of these events can be found on World Accordion Day website. |
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  ‘Accordions International 2009’, organised by Heather Smith, took place from May 8th to 12th at Pontins, Blackpool. This year’s chief guests included young Italian accordionists Pietro Adragna and Claudio Recchia (late stand ins for Pino di Modugno and Giancarlo Caporilli, who withdrew through illness), and Alexander Dmitriev and Vitali Dmitriev - Russia.Pietro Adragna, a 20 year old from Sicily, charmed everybody with his personality, brilliant technique and large repertoire. Many will long remember his impromptu late night concert in the bar, including his complex variations on ‘The Carnival of Venice’. Claudio Recchia, from Rome, similarly demonstrated a high standard of technique and love for playing in his performances. There were marvellous performances from Alexander Dmitriev and Vitali Dmitriev, and UK-based artistes Stefan Andrusyschyn and vocalist Denise Leigh, Romano Viazzani, Bert Santilly and Harry Hussey David Vernon, from Edinburgh, arrived on Sunday, and his Scottish music and humour quickly endeared him to his audiences. His entrances, in full kilt and playing bagpipes, were spectacular and memorable. Romano Viazzani’s ‘Big Band’ workshop was memorable for a superb rendition of Glenn Miller’s ‘String of Pearls’, which included a trumpet solo from Marj Howard, and Pietro Adragna playing the piano part on a Roland FR7. Brian Jenkins, Peter Whiteley, Jean Hanger and Bert Santilly capably led orchestral/band workshops. Adrienne Sharpe organised the daily ‘Free n Easy’ concerts and also the ‘Songs of Praise’. The festival will also featured the release of Rob Howard’s new book, ‘An A to Z of the Accordion, Volume 4’, which sold well. For further information email: heather@accordions.karoo.co.uk |
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 Brazilian accordionist Chico Chagas, now based in London, UK, won first prize in the recent Kaunas Jazz Festival, against such strong competitors as Joao Bosco and Paquito de Rivera, in a section with 10 bands in total.Kaunas Jazz is Lithuania's biggest and stylistically most diverse jazz festival. |
Future events |
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 The 4th Festival of Accordion Music ‘From Baroque to Jazz’ takes place from May 23rd to 29th, organised by "S-ART" association: Private Music School & Art Agency, Wroclaw, Hubska 7Among the festival events are: 1) The accordion contest: 23.05.2009. 2) Courses for accordionists: 25.05.2009, conducted by - Olexiy Suslov 3) The concert Laureates of Festival: 27.05.2009. 4) The concert of Accordion Orchestra Harmonica from Music School 1st and 2nd grade S-ART: 29.05.2009. Galina Krival – conductor. The program includes compositions G. Bizet, A. Petrov, A. Piazzolla, G. Sviridov, K. Weill. In the competitive part of our Festival can be participated by pupils of Music Schools of the 1st and 2nd grade, students of Music Academies, professional musicians and unprofessional soloists and ensembles (without age limitation). There will be two categories in our competition: for soloists and for chamber ensembles/accordion orchestras. For further information email: suslov@wp.pl |
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| Accordionist Jelena Milojevic will perform a recital at the Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York, on May 27th, 8pm. She will perform works by A. Grothe, A. Kusiakov, F. Angelis, A. Nordheim, J. Gurbindo, V. Vlasov, and the world premiere of Chris Jarrett's ‘The last dawn of Anne Frank’. Jelena Milojevic, from Croatia, now lives in Vancouver, Canada. She has won numerous international accordion competitions, both as soloist and chamber musician. One of her greatest successes came in Italy in 2003 when she won the Trophée Mondiale senior classical title. For further information email: info@artesmusic.org |
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| The Akkordeonorchester Klingenthal e.V. is going to be performing in Castelfidardo on May 29th, 9.15pm at the Concerto Teatro Astra. On May 31st the Akkordeonorchester Klingenthal e.V. will be performing in Loreto at the Teatro Comunale di Loreto, 9:15 pm. Klingenthal City in Germany and Castelfidardo City in Italy are sister cities and hold a number of cultural and social events each year to honor and celebrate this special relationship. |
by Rob Howard
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| The International Accordion Competition “Ascoltate 2009” takes place in Prienai, Lithuania, from June 3rd to 7th. This competition is sponsored by the Veiveriai A. Kucingis School of Art and the Kaunas Accordion Society. There are six categories, ranging from classical to jazz, for accordion soloists and ensembles born from 1990. For further information email: mindaugas@akordeonas.lt |
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 On his world tour, Peter Soave, master virtuoso of the bandoneon, will stop at the music store-Boullard music, Morges, near Lausanne, Switzerland, on Wednesday June 17th, 7.30pm. Accompanied by the string quartet Ruen, from the famous band from Zagreb, they will perform a typical Argentinean music repertoire of Astor Piazzolla.For further information email: jl.noton@wanadoo.fr |
by Rob Howard
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 The St Audries Bay Summer Accordion Week takes place from July 18th to 25th in the English county of Somerset. Founded by the late Malcolm Gee in the 1980s, this is the original "Friendly-Fun Summer Accordion Week", now organised by Mary Randle.There is chalet or caravan accommodation available - half board or self catering. The guest artistes include Harry Hussey, and the activities offered include Accordion Bands (Advanced/ Intermediate/ Beginners), Vintage Workshop, Scottish Workshop, French Accordion Circle, Composers Competition, Scottish Ceilidh Evening, Accordion Repairs, Accordion Tuition, Trade Show, Duets, Groups, Solos, and Busking. For further information email: enquiries@staudriesbay.co.uk |
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| The festival is organized by the Art Promotion Association in collaboration with www.clubvogliadarte.com, City of Mosciano and private sponsors and will take place from June 19th to 21st in Mosciano SA (TE, Italy). The festival is divided into 4 concerts and 3 competitions: Orpheus Award (Critics Award), a type of accordion Oscar for best Italian CD of 2008; the Italia Award (International) for young students of classical accordions, virtuoso, organ, singing, keyboard, guitar and others; Italian selection for the next CMA Trophée Mondiale, to be held in September 2009 in Portugal. The last date for entries is May 31st. The Artistic Director Renzo Ruggieri and President Claudio Azzaro intend to repeat the success of previous editions with concerts and international guests such as: Ludovic Beier (French demonstrator of the Roland V-Accordion) for jazz music, Maestro Massimiliano Pitocco (concert artiste and Professor of the Academy of St. Cecilia, Rome) for classical music, and the young Italian entertainer Antonio Spaccarotella (winner of the International Award of Castelfidardo 2008). The opening event will be by the Orchestra Mantici Armoniosi, directed by Maestro Paolo Picchio. For further information contact visit www.accordionartfestival.com |
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 Bruno Maurice will teach at the Académie Festival des Arcs 2009?, Savoie, from July 20th to August 1st. He will also perform concerts on themes by Piazzolla, Berio, improvisation and contemporary music. Festival des Arcs is the ‘INTERNET’ of the French classical music world. It is the annual meeting place for many French musicians, and most of the professors and musicians are under 45. What makes the festival really special is that the musicians play for almost nothing because they want to do so, and want to give something back for the benefits that they have obtained from the Festival and Academy in the past. This means that there is a very special atmosphere and you see many musicians listening to each other playing - this is quite different from the "prima donna" atmosphere of parts of the music world. For further information email: contact@festivaldesarcs.com |
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 Marco Goldin, one of Italy’s most important art critics, will present two exhibitions of paintings by Rembrandt, Gauguin, Picasso, Monet and Coubet, to be held in 2009 in Rimini and Udine. During the presentation a stage show "The Corot and a Blind, by Monet", written by Goldin, with music and interpretations of jazz accordionist Renzo Ruggieri and cellist Piero Salvatori, will be featured. For further information email: info@renzoruggieri.it |
New and Updated Sites |
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| Rob Howard new book now released titled "An A to Z of the Accordion and related instruments - Volume 4". Purchase online. |
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| Franco Cambareri - accordionist, composer, producer, releases 5 new works for accordion available for purchase online. 'La Baiana, catalog:cfranco90', 'La Joya (The Jewel), catalog:cfranco91', 'Maria Luiza, catalog:cfranco92', 'Moments of Sadness, catalog:cfranco93' and 'Tender Feelings (Sentimento Amoroso), catalog:cfranco94'. Samples of this music are available on the site. The music is in eSheet format, able to be emailed to your computer. Purchase with credit card. |
by Salvatore Cauteruccio
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| A new site selling 2 CDs titled "NOVA 4TET Tangout" and "Acoustic Music Ensemble" with sound samples. Music performed by Salvatore Cauteruccio. Purchase online. |
by Shmelkov Semion
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| A new site selling 2 CDs titled "The Poem" and "Sempre Majore! (Flute and Bayan)" with sound samples. Music performed by Semion Shmelkov and Olga Zmanovskaja. Purchase online. |
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by Renato Belardinelli
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 CD Reviews Index for the Review of “Accordeon Obsession” by Sergiu Popa |
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