CONFEDERATION
INTERNATIONALE DES
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ACCORDEONISTES
(C.I.A.)
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Saturday,
October 27, 2001 - London, UK
NAO Piano Accordion Category | Coupe Mondiale Final | Congress | Prize Giving Concert |
NAO Piano Accordion Accordion Category. | |
The
NAO hosted the first Piano Accordion Category, which has now been accepted
by the CIA Congress into the regular curriculum of the Coupe Mondiale
Festival. The required program elements for the contestants were as
follows:
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Contestants
from as far afield as New Zealand and Australia to Russia and Europe contested
this contest which offered as First Prize, a free trip to New Zealand
and Australia to perform at their national festivals in 2002. In 2003,
in addition to the trip to New Zealand and Australia, the Prize will offer
a second trip to the United States to perform at the American Accordionists
Association Festival. Contestants in the Piano Accordion Class were: NADEJDA BOUSEVA BRANKO DZINKOVIC - YUGOSLAVIA REBEKAH GREIG - AUSTRALIA DMITRI RESHETNIKOV - RUSSIA YRUI CHUBARENKO - UKRAINE CAMPBELL BETTRIDGE - NEW ZEALAND PAULA HARRIS - NEW ZEALAND (pictured above right) ZORAN KIRJAKOVSKI - MACEDONIA SILVIA DI BONI - ITALY KOSTO TODOROVSKI - MACEDONIA KATERINA TSHERNOGOUBOVA - RUSSIA SARAH DIGGENS - UNITED KINGDOM . LINDA ACHMETOVA - RUSSIA | |
The Piano Accordion Jury | |
Gina
Brannelli, United Kingdom Chairperson of the Jury, Fred Parnell, United
Kingdom, Oleg
Sharov, Russia,
Paulo Ferreira, Portugal, Jacques Mornet, France, Tatiana Lantchikova, New Zealand, Zorica Zarakytouska, Macedonia, Tania Lukic, Australia | |
Coupe Mondiale Final | |
The five finalists performed their own choice program to a capacity audience at St. Johns Church. Contestants were required to present an own choice program consisting of three (3) or more pieces of different styles and characters. Playing time: min. 20 minutes to max. 30 minutes. The final five were: | |
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CIA Congress - Second Session | |
The International Congress
held its second session which at which the Piano Accordion Class was
officially incorporated into the CIA Coupe Mondiale Festival. | |
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Prizegiving Concert in London | |
The
Prizegiving Concert was opened by the St Johns Accordion Orchestra from
Northern Ireland (pictured left). Performing two works, they also premiered
a new work written for the CIA concert. Faithe
Deffner - Immediate Past President of the American Accordionists
Association | |
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