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| 2019 Report: Program | 18 September | 19 September | 20 September | 21 September | 22 September | Results | Rules | Jury |
Daily Reports 18 September 2019 |
| The City Council of Castelfidardo (Marche region, Italy), in collaboration with Castelfidardo Pro Loco Tourist Association, calls and organizes the PIF International Competition “Città di Castelfidardo” reserved for accordion soloists and groups, of classical music and other genres. The Castelfidardo Municipal Administration is led by Mayor Roberto Ascani, the Castelfidardo Pro Loco headed by Ruben Cittadini, and event Artistic Director Renzo Ruggieri. Competition Rules and Regulations Competition Jury List |
| Opening ceremony of the 44th PIF CASTELFIDARDO led by the Mayor Roberto Ascani and the city councillor Ruben Cittadini (both on the right participating and singing the hymn - in the piazza of the Repubblica/city Hall of Castelfidardo) | |
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| Cristian Chiaraluce |
Elena Merli and Cristian Chiaraluce opening the Pif-Festival |
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| Performing for the Opening was the Complesso Filarmonico (on the right Giuseppe Chiaraluce/Fisitalia Accordions | |
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| Paolo Soprani Musicschool and their teacher M° Luigino Pallotta (below right) | |
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| Pic/below/left: artistic director of the festival M° Renzo Ruggieri, cityhall councillor Ruben Cittadini, Mayor Roberto Ascani and Compere - pic. below/right Claudia Orlandoni (left) presenting the special sponsorship of the family Orlandoni to the young accordion students - led by their teacher M° Luigino Pallotta. | |
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Evening Program - Musical "ARMONICAMENTE" in the Theater ASTRA with the COMPAGNIA DELLA RANCIA (Italy).    |
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| Enrico Cetrari/President of the organisation Gervasio Marcosignori presenting the fabulous evening in presence of the Mayor Roberto Ascani. | ... the city hall councillor Ruben Cittadini and right, the Artistic Director of the 44th PIF Castelfidardo M° Renzo Ruggieri. |
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| performing in the musical on the accordion: | Valentino Lorenzetti on the electronic MIDI accordion |
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| Massimo Marconi on the diatonic accordion | below: Mirco Patarini on the classical acoustic accordion |
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| Antonio de Luca on Jazz Accordion | |
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| A musical in honor of the great Maestro Gervasio Marcosignori from Castelfidardo, who died in 2013. | |
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| from China Lin Jiang, Floral, New Ting, M° Chen Jun |
Matteo Mengscini (Italy), Grayson Masefield, Heather Masefield (New Zealand) |
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| Roberto and Andrea Ottavianelli/Bugari. | and with Claudio Sabbatini (Musictech) |
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| accordion gadgets and shop windows in Castelfidardo - dedicated to the accordion | |
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| Vitor and Sergio Pastor/Portugal |
Mr Tomic (Serbia), M° Jacques Mornet (France) with Harley Jones (New Zealand). |
13-22 September Program
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13th September | Music&more |
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| 13/09 | 18:30 | Salone degli Stemmi | PIF2019 Preview – aperitif concert with Daniele Di Bonaventura | |
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14th September | Music&more |
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| 14/09 | 18:30 | San Francesco | Inauguration of the Farfisa exhibition. Exhibition open until 17 September with opening hours 10.00-12.30 and 16.00-19.30 | |
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15th September | Music&more |
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| 15/09 | from 9:00 to 19:00 |
Piazza della Repubblica / Museo Internazionale della Fisarmonica / Museo del Risorgimento / Ristorante Amaranto’s | Farfisa Day 9.00 am Piazza della Repubblica – Meeting of the participants 9.20 am Piazza della Repubblica – Greetings from the Administration 9.40 am – Screening of Farfisa historical films 10.30 am – Guided tour of the International Accordion Museum 11.30 am – Visit to the Risorgimento Museum 12.00 – Visit to the Giant Accordion 1.00 pm – Lunch at the Amaranto’s Restaurant (participation fee 30.00) 16.30 – Visit to the exhibition of historical instruments Farfisa (The Excellencies) 6.00 pm – Concert by Maestro Giuliano Gameli, world accordion champion 6.30 pm – Swing Trio in concert: Pino Gulizia (Farfisa transparent piano), Dalila Maretti (percussion), Simone Giorgini (double bass) Info: info@capponiclaudio.it – 333 4987209 |
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17th September | Music&more |
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| 17/09 | 21:30 | O’Brian Irish Pub | PIFincompagnia – The Johnnies live | |
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18th September | Music&more |
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| 18/09 | 19:00 | Piazza della Repubblica | PIF2019 opening ceremony with the Complesso Filarmonico and the students of M Luigino Pallotta. Following the prize category draw. | |
| 18/09 | 21:00 | Teatro Astra | PIFGalaConcert – Armonicamente musical Compagnia della Rancia (Italy) |
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| 18/09 | 21:30 | O’Brian Irish Pub | PIFincompagnia – The Jonfen live | |
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19th September | Music&more |
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| 19/09 | 8:00 | Auditorium San Francesco | PIFAuditions Classical – Auditions Classical Master Category | |
| 19/09 | 9:00 | Sala Conferenze Sant’Agostino | PIFAuditions Virtuoso – Auditions Virtuoso Senior Category 1st round | |
| 19/09 | 9:00 | Auditorium Sant’Anna | PIFAuditions Virtuoso – Auditions Virtuoso Student15 Category | |
| 19/09 | 9:30 | Salone degli Stemmi | PIFAcademy – MEET THE COMPOSER , Petri Makkonen (Finland) Classical Contemporary Accordion Seminary | |
| 19/09 | 12:00 | Auditorium Binci | AperiPIF – Luka Simic classical (Serbia) | |
| 19/09 | 15:00 | Sala Conferenze Sant’Agostino | PIFAuditions Virtuoso – Auditions Virtuoso Junior Category | |
| 19/09 | 15:00 | Auditorium Sant’Anna | PIFAuditions Virtuoso – Auditions Virtuoso Student12 Category | |
| 19/09 | 15:00 | Piazza della Repubblica | PIFOpenStage – Gwen Cresens / Bart Van Caenegem Duo classical/tango/jazz (Belgium) | |
| 19/09 | 15:45 | Piazza della Repubblica | PIFOpenStage – AccorDuo, jazz/virtuoso (Italy) | |
| 19/09 | from 16:00 to 19:00 |
Civica Scuola di Musica Paolo Soprani | PIF 4YOU[ng] Free Lessons for children aged 4 to 18: diatonic accordion (M Roberto Lucanero). From 18.00 to 19.00 Music & game (3/5 years) with M Barbara Camilletti |
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| 19/09 | 16:30 | Piazza della Repubblica | PIFOpenStage – Aleksander Ipavec Francesco Bearzatti DUO, jazz (Slovenia, Italy) sponsor Bugari |
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| 19/09 | 17:15 | Piazza della Repubblica | PIFOpenStage – DUO Marsia classical (Italy) | |
| 19/09 | 18:00 | San Francesco | PIFAuditorium – Baret Quartet jazz/world (Italy) sponsor Brandoni |
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| 19/09 | 19:00 | San Francesco | PIFAuditorium – Eric Bouvelle, vari t (Francia) sponsor Cavagnolo |
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| 19/09 | 21:00 | Teatro Astra |
PIFAuditions Virtuoso – Auditions Virtuoso Senior Category 2nd round PIFGalaConcert – Gervasio Marcosignori “Memories” Giancarlo Caporilli, Petar Maric (Italy, Serbia) |
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| 19/09 | 21:30 | O’Brian Irish Pub | PIFincompagnia – Sul Com live | |
| 19/09 | 23:15 | OnStage Casa della Musica | PIFOff – Lu Trainan Trio. Traditional Marche region music | |
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20th September | Music&more |
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| 19/09 | 8:00 | Auditorium San Francesco | PIFAuditions Classical – Auditions Classical Master Category | |
| 20/09 | 9:00 | Teatro Astra | PIFAuditions Classical – Auditions Premio Category 1st round | |
| 20/09 | 9:00 | Auditorium Binci | PIFAuditions – Gervasio MARCOSIGNORI Award |
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| 20/09 | 9:00 | Auditorium Sant’Anna | PIFAuditions Classical – Auditions Classical Student12 Category | |
| 20/09 | 9:30 | Salone degli Stemmi | PIFAcademy – L INFLUENZA EUROPEA NELLA WORLD MUSIC DEL NORD AMERICA , Raynald Ouellet (Canada). World Accordion Seminary |
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| 20/09 | 12:00 | Auditorium Binci | AperiPIF – Artem Malhasyan classical (Russia) | |
| 20/09 | 15:00 | Auditorium Sant’Anna | PIFAuditions Classica – Auditions Classical Student15 Category | |
| 20/09 | 15:00 | Piazza della Repubblica |
PIFAuditions Jazz – Auditions Jazz Category 1st round Performance of the Castelfidardo Youth Orchestra with the “2019 Leonardo Accordion” performed by the students of the I.C.Soprani Musical Address. |
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| 20/09 | from 16:00 to 19:00 |
Civica Scuola di Musica Paolo Soprani | PIF 4YOU[ng] Free lessons for children aged 4 to 18: Accordion (M Luigino Pallotta), Guitar (M Emanuele Coppari), Double Bass & Electric Bass (M Nico Pallotta), Violin (M Paola Del Bianco), Sax (M Leonardo Rosselli) |
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| 20/09 | 18:30 | San Francesco | PIFAuditorium – In Cammino con Leonardo Da Vinci – Ipavec-Chiabudini crossover (Slovenia, Italy) sponsor Bugari |
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| 20/09 | 19:00 | San Francesco | PIFAuditorium – Giorgio Dellarole plays Scarlatti (Italy) sponsor Scandalli |
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| 20/09 | 21:00 | Teatro Astra |
PIFAuditions Jazz – Auditions Jazz Category 2a prova PIFGalaConcert – Jazz Colours, Jazz Colours Big Band conductor Massimo Morganti/Gianni Coscia/Massimo Tagliata/Chigo Chagas jazz (Italy, Brasile) |
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| 20/09 | 22:30 | O’Brian Irish Pub | PIFincompagnia – Onerik Folk live | |
| 20/09 | 23:15 | OnStage Casa della Musica |
PIFOff – Scarlatto live by Riccardo Ciaramellari (accordionist of Simone Cristicchi)
Carla Quadraccia (Carlotta) voice, Valter Sacripanti drums Riccardo Ciaramellari accordion and piano Davide Pieralisi guitar Sandro Rosati double bass
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21st September | Music&more |
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| 21/09 | 9:00 | Teatro Astra | PIFAuditions Classical – Auditions Premio Category 2nd round | |
| 21/09 | 9:00 | Auditorium Sant’Anna | PIFAuditions World – Auditions World Student12 Category | |
| 21/09 | 09:00 | Auditorium San Francesco | PIFAuditions World – Auditions World Senior Category | |
| 21/09 | 9:30 | Salone degli Stemmi | PIFAcademy – LA FISARMONICA NEL JAZZ: DA SEMPLICE COLORE A STRUMENTO PROTAGONISTA , Gerlando Gatto. Jazz Accordion Seminary |
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| 21/09 | 10:30 | Auditorium Sant’Anna | PIFAuditions World – Auditions World Student15 Category | |
| 21/09 | 12:00 | Auditorium Binci | AperiPIF – Bartosz Kolsut classical (Poland) | |
| 21/09 | 15:00 | Auditorium Sant’Anna | PIFAuditions World – Auditions World Junior Category | |
| 21/09 | 15:00 | Auditorium San Francesco | PIFAuditions World – Auditions World Ensemble Category 1st round | |
| 21/09 | from 15:00 to 18:00 |
Salone degli Stemmi | PIFAcademy – “Le vie dell’interprete” e “L’inevitabile incontro”. Presentation of publications and projects by the Nuovo-CDMI. | |
| 21/09 | 15:00 | Piazza della Repubblica | PIFOpenStage – Luca Zanetti jazz/virtuoso (Italy) sponsor Fismen |
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| 21/09 | 15:45 | Piazza della Repubblica | PIFOpenStage – Nikolay Ovchinnikov Trio jazz (Russia) | |
| 21/09 | from 16:00 to 19:00 |
Civica Scuola di Musica Paolo Soprani | PIF 4YOU[ng] Free Lessons for children aged 4 to 18: Piano (M Emiliano Giaccaglia), Flute (M Agnese Cingolani), guitar (M Cesare Sampaolesi), Violin (M Alessandro Quattrini) |
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| 21/09 | 16:30 | Piazza della Repubblica | PIFOpenStage – Virtuosity Duo virtuoso (Italy) | |
| 21/09 | 17:15 | Piazza della Repubblica | PIFOpenStage – Riccardo Taddei Roman Gomes Duo jazz tango (Italy) sponsor Settimio Soprani |
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| 21/09 | 17:30 | Libreria Aleph | PIFBook – Presentation of the book by Antonello Lamanna “CALABRIA SOUND SYSTEM. Traditional music, vocabulary and contemporary orality”. Stories of Brigands, love songs, funeral groans, ancestral sounds. Traditions and rituals linked to Calabrian orality. A research on the dialect and the traditional music of Southern Italy born within the research project “Voxteca” of the University for Foreigners of Perugia. | |
| 21/09 | 18:00 | San Francesco | PIFAuditorium – Pietro Roffi classical with electronic (Italy) sponsor Bugari |
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| 21/09 | 18:30 | Laboratorio Grandi Fisarmoniche Piazza della Repubblica, 17 |
Concert and presentation of the CD of Cesare Sampaolesi (classical guitar). Introductory report on the figure of Luigi Mozzani and the Italian guitar of the early 1900s by Vincenzo Ruggiero and Francesco Ricci. |
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| 21/09 | 19:00 | Piazza della Repubblica | ABSOLUTELY PAINTING. A Live Painting & Music project, conceived and produced by Hisako Mori and Feedback in July. The band, which for the occasion will be in quartet, with accordionist Luigino Pallotta, proposes the songs, written and arranged by the band, of their first EP Wili Wili for Duke in a more “harmonic” version and let themselves be carried away by the expressive moment by Hisako, who in turn paints trying to match colors and the expressive subject to the sound energy that is created. Luca Galassi guitar Alessandro Nardi bass Gian Luigi Mandolini drums Luigino Pallotta accordion HisaKo Mori Live Painting |
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| 21/09 | 19:00 | San Francesco | PIFAuditorium – Christine Rossi plays Angelis classical (France) | |
| 21/09 | 21:00 | Piazza della Repubblica |
PIFAuditions World – Auditions World Ensemble Category 2nd round PIFGalaConcert – Concerto World Music |
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| 21/09 | 21:00 | Giardini di Porta Marina | Gryphus Dixie Band. 6 musicians from Central Italy have decided to bring the jazz of the origins from the banks of the Mississippi directly to the villages of our country, through the re-proposal of the songs that have made the history of the genre, with arrangements faithful to the original ones. |
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| 21/09 | 22:30 | Piazza della Repubblica | P-Funking Band. The band offers unusual and unusual arrangements combined with engaging choreographies. | |
| 21/09 | 22:30 | San Francesco | IN THE EMBRACEMENT OF TANGO when music and dance are colored by Pasi n. The show travels on the notes of tango and the Argentine singer FABIAN projects the viewer into the magical world of Argentine tango both as an expression of dance and music and reaches the great masters of Argentine Tango such as Piazzolla, Pugliese, D’Arienzo, Color Tango, Canaro and many other sacred monsters of the Argentine tanghero landscape. A journey in music, poetry and dance that will accompany the audience in a whirlwind of emotions and strong sensations that only the true TANGO can generate. |
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| 21/09 | 22:30 | Porta Marina | Mario Riccardi Orchestra in concert. The 11-piece orchestra has been a protagonist in the world of light and melodic music for 35 years now. With his music he manages to convey the love for the land and the Marche traditions and in his songs, melodic and danceable, there is certainly no lack of passion for Verdicchio or the invitation to protect the artistic and natural heritage of the Marche. | |
| 21/09 | 22:30 | O’Brian Irish Pub | PIFincompagnia – Mannarino & Dintorni live | |
| 21/09 | 24:00 | OnStage Casa della Musica | PIFOff – Montefiori Cocktail are Italian major representative of the easy listening evolution and one of the most important of the world. Their style is inspired by the 60 s and the beginning of the 70 s, cult soundtracks, music from tv commercial and classics | |
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22nd September | Music&more |
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| 22/09 | 8:00 | Auditorium Sant’Anna | PIFAuditions Classical – Auditions Classical Junior Category | |
| 22/09 | 9:00 | Auditorium San Francesco | PIFAuditions Classical – Auditions Classical Ensemble Category | |
| 22/09 | 9:30 | Salone degli Stemmi | PIFAcademy – GLI AVVERTIMENTI AL LETTORE DI GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI , Ivano Paterno. Classique-Baroque Accordion Seminary | |
| 22/09 | 12:00 | Museo Internazionale della Fisarmonica | PIFBook – Presentation of the book by Luigino Pallotta “Give me Five & Five” Accordion manual for beginners. Introduction by M Cesare Chiacchiaretta. The volume was born from the dynamism and didactic experience of Luigino Pallotta and from the need to enrich the didactic materials for learning pour debutants of the study of the left handbook with single notes. | |
| 22/09 | 12:00 | Auditorium Binci | AperiPIF – Vladimir Stupnikov classical (Russia) sponsor ABB |
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| 22/09 | 15:00 | Piazza della Repubblica | PIFOpenStage – Zdruzeni Orkester Diatonicnih Harmonik world (Slovenia) | |
| 22/09 | 15:45 | Piazza della Repubblica | PIFOpenStage –Chico Chagas jazz (Brasile) | |
| 22/09 | from 16:00 to 19:00 |
Civica Scuola di Musica Paolo Soprani | PIF 4YOU[ng] Free Lessons for children aged 4 to 18: Piano (M Emiliano Giaccaglia), Accordion (M Luigino Pallotta), Drums (M Andrea Elisei), Singing lessons (M Martina Jozwiak), Electric guitar (M Andrea Concu), Diatonic accordion (M Roberto Lucanero) | |
| 22/09 | 16:30 | Piazza della Repubblica | PIFOpenStage – SaxAkkord Duo (Russia, Germany) | |
| 22/09 | 17:15 | Piazza della Repubblica | PIFOpenStage – Jordan Djevic Giacomo Tosti DUO balcanic jazz (Serbia, Italy) sponsor Siwa & Figli |
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| 22/09 | 18:00 | San Francesco | PIFAuditorium – Petar Maric classical with electronic (Serbia) sponsor Evo Digital Accordions |
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| 22/09 | 19:00 | San Francesco | PIFAuditorium – Charm Trio classical (Russia) sponsor Pigini |
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| 22/09 | 19:00 | O’Brian Irish Pub | PIFincompagnia – The Jukebox Band live | |
| 22/09 | 21:00 | Teatro Astra |
PIFAuditions Classical – Auditions Premio Category 3rd round PIFGalaConcert – Final Gala Concert Symphonic Orchestra conductor Paolo Angelucci, Premiere “Pinocchio Suite” by Renzo Ruggieri crossover (Italy) |
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| 2019 Report: Program | 18 September | 19 September | 20 September | 21 September | 22 September | Results | Rules | Jury |