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26-Feb-2010
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 Photo top: All participants, Lower: Mindaugas Labanauskas, Frédéric Deschamps, Augustinas Rakauskas and Grazina Lukosiene.On 20 February, the National Association of Kaunas (Lithuania) organized a Marathon accordion event with over 140 participants. This association is chaired by the very dynamic Grazina Lukosiene (a professor at the Conservatory "J. Gruodism) and has over 500 active members including some forty professors located throughout the region. Frédéric Deschamps was invited to the Kaunas Association event t by Mindaugas Labanauskas, teacher and international delegate at the CIA and the CMA. Very young accordionists were playing all day successfully impressing the audience. Frédéric Deschamps was giving a master classes on Saturday morning for all the teachers present showing the innovative teaching techniques that his teaching of talented accordionists such as Jerome Richard, Julien ‘Speedy’ Gonzales, Grayson Masefield, Petar Maric and many others, has enabled him to discover and develop. The young prodigy Augustinas Rakauskas, student of Grazina Lukosiene, who came to public notice when qualifying for the famous National Televised Show "2 minutes of Glory", served as a model student for the occasion. Augustinas is familiar with the techniques of Deschamps through working with him regularly on internet using Skype. The Festival marathon included the 2009 Coupe Mondiale dual winner (classic and variété), Grayson Masefield of New Zealand, who is also a pupil of Frédéric Deschamps. His concert program consisting of classical and variété music, strongly excited the packed auditorium of over 600 people and included a standing ovation for this young artists performance. The next day, Grayson Masefield performed another very successful concert in Vilnius. See the Grayson's Fan Club for video of the Lithuania concert. Join the Fan Club for a free gift. Only information needed is your name and email, no password or sign in required. |