7th November, Evening Activities
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Akira Hanechi (Roland Europe SpA. Manager) and Luigi
Bruti, (Marketing Director of Roland Europe SpA.) show off the certificates
for contestants in the Festival. Excellent graphics are a hallmark of
the professional Roland marketing team. The strong Management committment
to the V-Accordion by the highest levels of Roland management is clearly
evident at every Roland event.
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Marco Cinaglia, Roland Marketing Division and V-Accordion
Product Manager with Jury member and CIA Vice-President Raymond Bodell,
Akira Hanechi (Roland Europe SpA. Manager).
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Jury Members signing the certificates for the contestants, left circling to right: Frederic Deschamps (France),
Kimmo Mattila (Finland), Kevin Friedrich (USA), Raymond Bodell (UK), Lech Puchnowski (Poland), Wolfgang Russ (Germany).
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Alessandra Curzi, Roland Europe Team Secretary &
Public Relations Officer and Luigi Bruti going over the timetable tomorrow
with the contestants.
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Luigi Bruti introduced Sandro Mori to the contestants.
Sandro Mori is the artist who painted the wonderful water color design
accordion (see below) that has been used in many of the Roland graphics
at this event.
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Sandro Mori has made a watercolor gift for each of the contestants and was there in person
to present these with Luigi Bruti to each of the contestants. A very beautiful momento for each contestant to take home with them.
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Presented by Sandro Mori and Lugi Bruti to Matthias
Bender (Germany).
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Presented to Johnny Lee Leslie (Great Britain).
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Presented to Ivan Preanacov (Canada).
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Presented to Joseph Natoli (USA).
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Presented to Marie Zichova (Czech)
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Presented to Grayson Masefield (New Zealand).
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Presented to Jackson Jofre Rodrigues (Brazil).
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Presented to Marcin Wyrostek (Poland).
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Presented to Josep Mª Costa Perarnau (Spain).
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Presented to Michal Cervienca (Slovakia).
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Presented to Bojan Mladenovic of Serbia.
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Presented to Toni Perttula (Finland).
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Presented to Emir Bosnjak (Denmark).
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Presented to Zhu Jingbai (China).
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Presented to Oleg Vereshcagin (Italy).
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Presented to Danylo Denisov (Ukraine).
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Presented to Prin Jean-François (France). Following
these presentations, Luigi Bruti then introduced the people responsible
for the graphics at the Finals tomorrow night. See picture right.
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Left to right: Roberto Gaetani (Roland R&D Department
& Chief Sound Engineer). Roberto is also the Chief sound engineer
for the Roland Accordion-V project. Sandro Mori, Luigi Bruti and Stefano
Mori (the son of the painter Sandro Mori) who is the responsible for
the wonderful stage / graphics animation used in the Finals Concert.
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| Considering artwork, the T-shirt from Sweden was spotted earlier in the day and a photo taken. | A close up of the t-shirt art work - very nice Sweden! |
Everyone then went for dinner. In the photos below, we have not put names but most of
the people at the Roland event were attending the dinner.
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