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Risultati online - 51° Concorso Internazionale di Fisarmonica di Klingenthal - Germaniaby Harley Jones |
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![]() Regole della competizione e informazioni categorie a: 2014Kling La categoria VI virtuoso intrattenimento si terrà in formato concerto per la prima volta. La Finale della Categoria solisti IV con orchestra sinfonica si terrà questa Domenica pomeriggio (ore 13.00) e al concerto di premiazione (ore 17.00) parteciperanno tutti i vincitori dei concorsi. Concerti da parte di artisti come: Mika Väyrynen, Samuele Telari, Christoph Grunert, Sexteto Tango Obsesión, Duo TRAMiTE! (Harald Oeler & Sinn Yang - violino), ecc, insieme con l'Akkordeonorchester Klingenthal (direttore d'orchestra Günter Herald) e orchestre sinfoniche Stadtorchester Klingenthal (conduttore Rico Schneider) e Vogtland Philharmonic (direttore Stefan Fraas). Per ulteriori dettagli è possibile scaricare il programma completo su: 2014KProgram - I membri della giuria (ordine paese) sono: Ivan Koval ( Repubblica Ceca ), Jeanette Dyremose ( Danimarca ), Mika Väyrynen (Finlandia ), Jacques Mornet (Francia ), Fritz Dobler ( Germania ), Stefan Fraas ( Germania ), Jürgen Ganzer ( Germania ), Tobias Morgenstern ( Germania ), Harald Oeler ( Germania ), Ulf Seifert ( Germania ), Krzyszof Olczak (Polonia ), Elsbeth Moser (Svizzera ), Viatcheslav Semionov ( Russia ), Tibor Rácz ( Slovacchia). Risultati e foto saranno disponibili da Domenica sera al: 2014 Klingenthal |
Viatcheslav Semionov Intervista sulla sua Nuova Sonata No. 3 - Russiaby Yulia Amerikova |
![]() ![]() Quest'affascinante intervista arriva al cuore di Semionov, i suoi pensieri, obiettivi e concetti che si sono sviluppati nella creazione di questo nuovo importante lavoro. L'intervista è in inglese e russo. Inglese: Semionov - EN russo: Semionov - RU CD e musica di Semionov disponibili online all'indirizzo: Viatcheslav Semionov |
Austria 2014 Selezione Coupe Mondiale a 'Tag der Harmonika ' - Austriaby Dr Herbert Scheibenreif Manager of Friedrich Lips Productions |
![]() ![]() Il 2014 è un anno molto speciale per Confederazione Fisarmonica dell'Austria UAV perché si festeggia il suo 60° anniversario organizzando il più prestigioso concorso internazionale di fisarmonica, la 'Coupe Mondiale', a Salisburgo dal 27 ottobre al 2 novembre. Danijel Piller, Nikolas Lazic e Johannes Münzner sono stati selezionati per rappresentare l'Austria alla Coupe Mondiale 2014. Anche gli studenti polacchi Marcin Jablonski e Kacpar Stalewski, da Katowice, hanno contribuito l'altissimo livello di questa categoria. Michael Frankenberger è stato molto convincente nel classico juniores, mentre Nina e Stefan Djordjevic hanno preso i loro primi premi nelle categorie da principiante, mostrando il loro grande potenziale per il futuro. Andreas Schmiedhofer, dal Sud - Tirolo, non solo ha ottenuto il primo premio nella categoria più alta del concorso diatonica, ma anche al concorso per ricordare Erich Moser (ex campione del mondo diatonico), una categoria organizzata per la prima volta. Come al solito, ci sono state molte esibizioni eccellenti di duetti di diatoniche e complessi di musica folk. Gottfried Hubmann era l'organizzatore di questo evento, ed è stato ricompensato ‘Merited Friend of the Styrian Harmonica’ dal presidente della HVÖ Werner Weibert. Altre immagini sono disponibili all'indirizzo www.harmonikaverband.at Un rapporto più dettagliato sarà presto disponibile a: Diatonic News |
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LMTA Accordion Ensemble Festival ContemporAcco - Lituaniaby Harley Jones |
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![]() Interpreti sono: Accordion Ensemble: Simona Šukyte, Tadas Motiecius, Agne Dukštaite, Jonas Stonkus, Martynas Vaicekauskas, Raimonds Ungurs, Romas Morkunas, Raimondas Sviackevicius. Il programma è: Gérard Grisey. "Passacaglia“ (1967) Yuji Takahashi. "Like a Water Buffalo“ (1985) Torbjörn Lundquist. "Ballad (Alla Ballata, Aria, Rondo)“ Andrzej Krzanowski. "Katedra“ (1979) Jonas Tamulionis. "Sonata akordeonui solo“ I dalis (1986) Dominykas Digimas. "Sakura no hana“ (2013) Sofia Gubaidulina. "Et Exspecto“ (1985) Raimonda Žiukaite. "Chromatografija“ (2013) Vidmantas Bartulis. "Auksiniu debesu lietus“ (1984) Jukka Tiensuu. "Mutta“ (1985/87) Arvo Pärt. "Collage über BACH“ (1964) |
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Spektral Quartet, ensemble-in-residence at the University of Chicago, will return to Goshen with accordion and bandoneon player Julien Labro (picture below) to play a program of South American-style jazz and tangos. The concert is set for Saturday 17th May at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Center’s Sauder Concert Hall, Goshen, Indiana. Julien Labro writes: "I've been working for the past couple years now with a wonderful string quartet from Chicago, Spektral Quartet and we have our first release out 'From This Point Forward' that features some captivating musical selections from South America." Above is a video preview about this first project. The album release show was held at "The City Winery" on the 15th May and the official CD release date is 24 June 2014. Performances this weekend: 16 May, The Hart Community Performing Arts, Hart, MI 17 May, Rieth Chamber Series @ Goshen College Music Center, Goshen, IN |
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Fisitalia Accordions of Castelfidardo announce that Black Diamond Accordions are now the UK representatives for Fisitalia Accordions. Black Diamond Accordions are based on beautiful Mersea Island - Britain's most easterly inhabited island, at the West Mersea Business Centre, Essex. For further information email: info@blackdiamondaccordions.com |
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![]() Concert Accordeon Novelle, at Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam, Saturday, June 14, 2014, 8:30pm. For further information email: info@nihad-accordeon.com |
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![]() Picture right is Renzo and Corey at the II Festival Internacional de Acordeom de Belo Horizonte MG, at the Grande Teatro do Sesc Palladium on the 9th May. |
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![]() Vladimir Mollov will be the headliner at the 2014 AAA Festival in Tarrytown, NY. |
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Video by two popular Brazilian entertainers, Dominguinhos who is a composer, singer and accordionist and Lenine, vocalist, performing Arrebol. Published 26 March 2014. |
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The Festival Il Fiore delle Mille was presented in Amsterdam, April 3-4, the first part of the festival "Il Fiore delle Mille e una Nota 3". The event was organized and curated by Kathleen Delaney Dance Co. and Italian Accordion Academy - a platform for research in the field of production and pedagogy of contemporary music and dance. The initiative is reaping the fruits of the pedagogic work done in the last year with the students of the courses taught by Claudio Jacomucci (accordion) and Kathleen Delaney (Alexander Technique) , opening up to other artists met along the way and with whom they share visions. Guests of the Italian Cultural Institute in Amsterdam, The Musicians of the Italian Accordion Academy (Vincenzo De Nitto, Fábio Palma, Andrzej Grzybowski, Przemek Wojchiechowski, Marco Pasculli, Ezio Testa) have presented a program of original and transcribed works for classical accordion instrument of great relevance in contemporary classical music. Works by Ligeti, Bizet, Kusyakov, Tiensuu, Krzanowski, Jacomucci, Roberto Beltrami, Takahashi, Ganzer, Pärt, Bach, Ginastera, Komitas, Vlasov and Taktakishvili. On April 4, at the famous hall of the Bimhuis, historic stage for improvised and borderline music, was premiered Suite Venetienne/Follow me, a new creation of the choreographer Kathleen Delaney inspired by the intriguing multimedia text of the photographer Sophie Calle, who followed strangers to photograph them, and that in this text with thoughts and photographs documenting a journey through the labyrinthine city of Venice, made ??undercover looking for a man met briefly in Paris. Afterwards, two compositions for choir and accordions: Arcana (2013) a piece for choir and accordion ensemble by Claudio Jacomucci. The Choir Durantino from Urbania, under the direction of Simone Spinaci performed with the accordion ensemble and dancers Kathleen Delaney and Roberto Lori. The second part of the festival will be held instead in Urbino, at Raffaello Sanzio Theatre on June 6 and 7, to resurface the Dutch program with a special guest: the poet Mariangela Gualtieri, founder of the Theatre Valdoca together with Cesare Ronconi, who will present the work Fraternità Solare, a series of poems that coexist in the musical score created by Claudio Jacomucci for 6 accordions, arranged according to a criterion of spatial acoustics, creating textures and resonances to echo the word and call for the break from the imaginary. |
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The Incheon Alpinrose Kids Jodel Choir, performed and sung KuKu Jodel (Melanie Oesch Version) at the Goethe Institute, Incheon. |
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Marco Lo Russo is between Italy and Poland this weekend. On Friday, May 16, Marco returns to Poland for the annual and prestigious Night of the Museums of the City of Krakow. The event , which has become an institution, is organized in the Polish city and is one of the more important cultural events in the nation. The performance is at 23.00 hrs at the Stare Miasto (Old Town of Krakow) at the National Museum with the Polish singer Agnieszka Chrzanowska (picture above). Video above: Nostalgia i Ty composed and sang by Agnieszka Chrzanowska performing with Marco Lo Russo (accordion), Wojciech Pieczka (piano), Jacek Rabbit (acoustic guitar), Martin Ruminski (tin whistle), Simon Frankowski ( bass), Dominic Klimczak (drums / percussion). The performance is a prelude to the long summer tour that will see Marco Lo Russo with the singer Agnieszka Chrzanowska engaged in various festivals throughout Europe . Sunday, May 18th is a performance at the prestigious Theatre of Piacenza. The event, organized in collaboration with the Conservatory of Music "Giuseppe Nicolini" in Piacenza, 17.00 hrs, is the Duo Ichnos of Marco Lo Russo and Guido Felizzi (violin). The Duo Ichnos, had the prestige and privilege of performing many times for TV2000 and Rai TV, History of the Vatican and reading of the Bible, "The Bible day and night." |
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This UK Touring production celebrates the music of the legendary French chanteuse, Edith Piaf. Murray Grainger has the important accordion part of this famous popular music and he and Fiona Barrow (violin) accompany vocalist Eve Loiseau. May 2014 Tour Dates - 14th - High Wycombe - Swan, Town Hall 19:30 16th - Stafford - Gatehouse Theatre 19:30 29th - Camberley Theatre - Surrey 19:30 |
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Marcel Loeffler and Lucien Brut, Marcel Loeffler Trio, Paris Moscou Duo of Domi Emorine & Roman Jbanov and exposition of accordions. |
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![]() Since 1993 Francesco Palazzo has been the Professor of accordion at the Conservatory "N. Piccinni" in Bari, Italy. Recital Program: Lino Liviabella (1902–1964) – Overture Italiana (1950) (red. F. Palazzo) Adamo Volpi (1911–1980) – Fileuse (1950) Franco Alfano (1876–1954) – Nenia (1950) (red. S. di Gesualdo) Luigi Ferrari-Trecate (1884–1964) – Pantomima Umoristica (1951) (red. S. di Gesualdo) G. Ligeti (1923–2006) – Hungarian Rock (1978) S. di Gesualdo (1940–2012) – Improvvisazione n. 1 (1973) F. Palazzo (1969) – Movimento Perpetuo (2002) (I° premio “Franco Evangelisti” 2005), Elegia (2009) B. Bartolozzi (1911–1980) – Madrigale di Gesualdo (1976) S. Gubaidulina (1931) – De profundis (1978) |
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![]() 20 to 26 September 2014. The Akademie für Neue Musik at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München is aiming to promote contemporary music reportoire from 1950 for instrumental tuition at music colleges and conservatoires. Instruments include accordion, string quartet, violin, viola, cello, voice, piano plus workshopsin in composition and contemporary composition analysis. Teodoro Anzellotti is the accordion tutor. More than 300 new works have been written for Teodoro Anzellotti, by composers such as George Aperghis, Brice Pauset, Heinz Holliger, Toshio Hosokawa, Mauricio Kagel, Michael Jarrell, Isabel Mundry, Gerard Pesson, Matthias Pintscher, Wolfgang Rihm, Salvatore Sciarrino, Marco Stroppa, Jörg Widmann und Hans Zender. Luciano Berio created for him his Sequenza XIII, which Mr. Anzellotti premiered in Rotterdam in 1995 and subsequently performed at major festivals worldwide. Since 1987 he has taught at the Hochschule der Künste Bern, and since 2002 at the Musikhochschule Freiburg im Breisgau as well. Course fees: 200 Euros for active participants (50 Euros payable on application) 400 Euros for string quartets, active (50 Euros payable on application) 50 Euros for passive participants (total amount payable on application) (For students at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München there is no fee for active and passive participants, but registration is obligatory.) Closing date for applications: 20 June 2014. For further information email: akademieneuemusik@hmtm.de |
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![]() 'Guardia Tango Finlandia', catalog: gnueva01 with sound samples. Music performed by Guardia Nueva. |
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![]() Performer, Music Teacher & Composer Sliema, Malta has a new website promoting his compositions for accordion that are published by Charnwood Publishing. |
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![]() 'Night Flowers', catalog: CD026 with sound samples. Music performed by Friedrich Lips. |
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