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07-Oct-2011
Nenad Ivanovic (Serbia) Wins the 2011 Coupe Mondiale, Shanghai - Chinaby Harley Jones |
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 Picture above: 1st Nenad Ivanovic (Serbia), 2nd Xiaonan Xu (China)From a total of 40 entrants, 36 competitors took to the stage for the Coupe Mondiale category. This category is in three rounds. Round 1 requires a Baroque work plus an own choice program of 2 pieces. Eighteen contestants qualified for Round 2 of the category which requires “one complete original work for the accordion.” For Round 3 on Thursday morning, is the “Own Choice program consisting of three (3) or more pieces of different style and character. Playing time: minimum 20 minutes to maximum 30 minutes.” There were 7players qualified for Round 3 and the event featured a very high standard of performance. Interesting the top five contestants were very close, with only a 23.01 to 23.56 mark range from 1st to 5th. 1. Ivanovic, Nenad (Serbia) 23.56 average mark 2. Xu, Xiaonan (China) 23.45 average mark 3. Zyabko, Pavel (Russia) 23.24 average mark 4. Abduraimov, Eldar (Russia) 23.04 average mark 5. Tanaskovic, Nikola (Serbia) 23.01 average mark Full results are online at: 2011CoupeResults Another interesting factor about the results of the 7 competition categories was the successes of Serbian contestants and the successes of Chinese contestants achieving a 2nd or 3rd placing in 6 out of 7 categories. Quite a remarkable achievement and showing just how strong Chinese contestants have become in all categories. Junior Coupe Mondiale winner: Radisavljevic, Predrag (Serbia) Pietro Adragna (picture right, Italy) was a winner of two categories, the International Competition for Virtuoso Entertainment Music and the International Competition for Digital Accordion. Photo below: 1st place winner, International Competition for Ensemble Music was China Trio (China) consisting of Ming Yuan Ruan (Accordion), Henan Li (Violin), He Feng (Cello). Full results are online at: 2011CoupeResults |
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