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6th Internacionali Festival Harmonike – Akordeon Art 2015by Anna Bodell |
Picture above: Festival Organiser Zoran Rakic (right) presentation to Gorka Hermosa following his very well received seminar. The 6th Internacionali Festival Harmonike – Akordeon Art 2015 was hosted in Eastern Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina from the 28th April to 2nd May 2015 under the direction of Prof Zoran Rakic, Dean of the University of the Academy of Music, Eastern Sarajevo. The Festival has grown into a truly international event with candidates coming from 19 different countries for the 9 categories of solo competition. The 12 international jury included Raymond Bodell, President of the Confédération Internationale des Accordéonistes (CIA) who welcomed all present at the opening concert, Gorka Hermosa (Spain), Vojin Vasovic (Serbia), Boris Jegorov (Russia), Mihail Sarabarin (Russia), Miljan Bjeletic (Serbia), Jevgeija Cerkasova (Ukraine), Zorica Karakowtowska (Macedonia), Diana Stanceva (Bulgaria), Goran Sevaljevic (Croatia) and Tanja Lukic-Marx (Australia). The winner of Category 9 (Seniors) from the 49 entrants in that category was Stojan Bojic (picture right), a former student of Zoran Rakic who is now studying with Juri Sidorow in Moscow at the renowned Gnessin Russian Academy of Music. The Festival also featured superb concerts including a solo concert by the renowned Russian artist Yuri Sishkin and an orchestral concert by the Accordion National Orchestra of the Tchaikovsky Academy of Music from Kiev, Ukraine. Also featured was a special talk by Gorka Hermosa about his life and his compositions for the Accordion. Picture below: Raymond Bodell, Yuri Shishkin and Anna Bodell. For further information email: makss@spinter.net |