Castelfidardo Accordion Festival
2010 Daily Reports

Wednesday 6th October

Faces and Facts
of well known accordion identities, performers and contestants.

Detailed Program (Acrobat file)

The first competition category of the 35th International Castelfidard Competition and Festival was Category G, which is the Junior Variety category.

LIGHT MUSIC SECTION Cat. G - Soloists up to the age of 18 (born in 1992 onwards) one audition

Competitors in category G must perform a free choice programme lasting max. 15 minutes. Category G is a Light Music Category from all countries and all styles (not only French Varieté) and also Jazz.

List of Contestants for Category G.


Strolling from the Hotel Parco, past the Astra Theatre we walk into Castelfidardo, and first on the left is the Castelfidardo Musica shop which makes accordion repairs and sells new and used accordions.

Further photos of	Castelfidardo Musica shop

Nicely presented accordions and other musical instruments.	A nice stroll through Castelfidardo and by the City square was the competition venue. Sitting in the front row to watch were Jacques Mornet and Nathalie Boucheix, Directors of CNIMA J.Mornet

There was a forest of movie cameras recording this popular category	and the hall was quite full.

First contestant to play was Yiwen Tang (China).	Sa Wang (China).

Kequing Xu (China).	Valentin Claivoz

Maxim D'Errico (France)	Matteo Petronio (Italy)

Pietro Roffi (Italy) who was the winner.	Adjudicators: Alexander Dmitriev, Antonio Spaccarotella, Djordje Gajic

Lauro Valério (Brazil) and Paolo Gandolfo (Italy)	Su Li Ya, Cao Xiao Qing, Chen Jia Schan

Category G Results

LIGHT MUSIC SECTION Cat. G - Soloists up to the age of 18 (born in 1992 onwards) one audition
Competitors in category G must perform a free choice programme lasting max. 15 minutes. Category G is a Light Music Category from all countries and all styles (not only French Varieté) and also Jazz.


The Music Reality Show is now on a large truck.

A historic photo at the Music Reality Show with Vincenzo Borsini in the role as the accordion performer.

Andrea Naspi of the Pigini Factory	Coba and his Secretary (Japan).

New Elle case manufacturers: Gabrielle Focante and Lorena Latini	World Accordion Trio Coba, Richard Galliano (France) and Frank Marocco (USA).

World Accordion Trio with two well known fans - 2009 Coupe Mondiale winner Grayson Masefield (New Zealand) and Antonio Spacarotella, former Castelfidardo Variety winner and tutor at the Chaikovsky University.

World Accordion Trio with sponsors Elke and Riccardo Breccia from the Victoria Accordion Factory.

World Accordion Trio interview for the Music Reality Show.

Andrea Ballone-Burini and friend.	Paul Chamberlain and his wife.

Antonio Salis and his group.

Ensemble Concertina from Moldavia

Ensemble Concertina played from memory and were very well received by the capacity audience.

Marco Nisi photographer and front row seats were the World Accordion Trio	with a large crowd behind.