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30th Førde Traditional and World Music Festival - Norway
Accordion Master Class & Concert with Iñaki Alberdi at MUK - Austria
Reports for Concerts, Masterclasses, Competitions, Festivals, etc. |
Video: Cory Pesaturo at the South Pacific Accordion Championships - New Zealand
Jonathan Dove talks about Concerto “Northern Lights” - UK
Video: Grayson Masefield at the South Pacific Accordion Championships - New Zealand
Future events |
President & Vice President’s Evening, Stockport – UK
Docklands Firelight Festival – Australia
“No Words” Auckland Accordion Symphonietta Concert - New Zealand
Earagail Arts Festival – Ireland
July CNIMA Courses - France
EFFE Awards 2019 - Belgium
Joey Miskulin AAA Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation - USA
New and Updated Sites |
Schedule Released, Leavenworth International Accordion Celebration – USA
Renzo Ruggieri Releases Song for S.B. for Accordion & Orchestra - Italy
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July Masterclass For High Musical Perfection and Evening Concerts - Italyby Harley Jones |
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  An accordion Masterclass for high musical perfection plus evening concerts will be held in Osimo, Ancona, from July 9th to 13th under the artistic direction of Dario Flammini and Mirco Patarini.The Masterclass is divided into four sections and is open to all interested musicians with no age limit: - “Classical Accordion” section will incorporate an advanced course and a medium level course. Instructors are: Friedrich Lips (Russia), Mirco Patarini (Italy), Dario Flammini (Italy), Vojin Vasovic (Serbia), Germano Scurti (Italy). - “Jazz/Modern Accordion” section; Antonio Spaccarotella (Italy). - “Bandoneon” section; Fabio Furia (Italy), Gianni Iorio (Italy) - “Stylistic interpretation of Tango” section; Gianni Iorio (Italy). Concerts: 9th July, Duo Gabriele Mirabassi (clarinet) and Simone Zanchini. 10th July, Jef De Haes, Andrea di Giacomo. 11th July, Bandoneon, Fernando Gabriele Mangifesta, Walter di Girolamo. 12 July, Fuccelli Fisarmony. For full information, registration details and prices download: 2019OsimoMasterclass.pdf |
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30th Førde Traditional and World Music Festival - Norwayby Christine Johnstone |
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 The 30th Forde Folk Music Festival will be held in hotels, museums arts centres and outdoor stages in and around Førde, Norway from July 3rd to 7th. The main festival arena is the culture centre “Førdehuset” with four concert halls holding from 170 to 2500 seats. The theme of this year’s event is “2019: 30 years without borders!”This festival is one of the largest for traditional and world music in Scandinavia, presenting approximately 90 acts, 30 venues and 300 artists from all over the world with 25, 000 to 30,000 visitors each year. The festival programme will include a variety of concerts, workshops, exhibitions, children’s events and dance evenings. Accordion performers and groups include “Ein haile halve maone” (Norway - picture at top) who play traditional dance music mostly from their own region, but also some tunes from other parts of Norway; “Floating Sofa Quartet” (Denmark, Sweden and Finland) which includes Leija Lautamaja on Melodeon & Harmonium. Their repertoire is an exciting mixture of own compositions and traditional pieces from their respective countries. Other performers are “Kroke” (Poland) which includes accordionist Jerzy Bawol, who play their own improvisations of klezmer and ethnic music; Samurai Accordion (Italy, Finland and Ireland – picture below), a group of 4 accordionists who play a mix of trad, folk, liscio, Irish music, jazz and film scores; and the Sarah Savoy Trio (USA - picture left) who play a mix of Cajun, country and rock’n’roll. For further festival details email: info@fordefestival.no |
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Accordion Master Class & Concert with Iñaki Alberdi at MUK - Austriaby Dr Herbert Scheibenreif Manager of Friedrich Lips Productions |
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 With the kind support of the Spanish Embassy in Vienna, internationally renowned accordionist Iñaki Alberdi was invited to a masterclass at the Music and Art University of Vienna (MUK) last week. Together with Prof. Grzegorz Stopa and students of MUK, he played at the final concert in the Vivaldi Hall. His program included works by José María Sánchez-Verdú, Jesús Torres, Enrique Granados and Campina, Ernesto Halffter, Manuel de Falla, Tomás Luis de Victoria and Joan Guinjoan.Iñaki Alberdi first studied with Carlos Iturralde in Spain and then completed his training with Friedrich Lips and Matti Rantanen at the Russian Gnesin Music Academy RAM in Moscow and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. He received first prizes at the Coupe Mondiale (Colmar, 1994), the International Accordionist and Bayanist Competition (Moscow, 1995) and the Youth Music Competition (Valladolid, 1996). Alberdi has worked closely with various contemporary composers, premiering works by Sofia Gubaidulina, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luis de Pablo, Joan Guinjoan, Gabriel Erkoreka, Ramón Lazkano, Jesús Torres, Agustín Charles and José María Sánchez-Verdú. He has appeared in numerous concert halls and at a variety of festivals as a chamber musician and with orchestra. According to Sofia Gubaidulina, "Iñaki Alberdi has great talent and the total dedication of an artist to his music. His amazing understanding of the depth of form and his remarkable temperament have impressed me the most and most extraordinary." The aim of the master class was to familiarize students with the rather unknown contemporary Spanish accordion literature as well as new methods of playing, e.g. to make possible the "unthinkable and unplayable". So if a composer like José María Sánchez-Verdú wants to explore the possibilities of playing glissando on the bass side in his work "Horos II", then the accordionist has to be prepared to give up the vertical position of the accordion in favor of a horizontal one, then being able to perform the desired gentle and delicate glissando with his the right hand. Alberdi demonstrated this with ease in his world premiere of "Horos II"! Verdú‘s "Arquitecturas del silencio" (Architectures of Silence) travels through the boundaries of the instrument as well as "Arquitecturas de espejos" (Mirror Architectures), not only by the extreme registers, but also by the manipulation and distortion of the sound through new instrumental techniques (strangled sounds, shadows between air, noise and pitch, repetition, complex auditory sensations, etc.). Composed in 2004, "Arquitecturas del silencio" was premiered in Cagliari the following year by Esteban Algora, to whom the work is dedicated. Joan Guinjoan was born in 1931 in Riudoms at the Baix Camp and is one of the most important contemporary composers in Catalonia. Before he started his career, he made his first musical experience with the accordion. Through this instrument, he discovered the harmony and music of the world through the "sounds of the earth" ("Sonidos de la Tierra"), both field work and nature. This is also the very title of Guinjoan's accordion work, which Iñaki Alberdi premiered in 2008, a kind of reunion between Guinjoan and his first instrument, the accordion. Jesús Torres' "Cadencias", from his accordion concerto “Concierto para acordeón y orquesta”, Ernesto Halffter's rousing "Danza de la Pastora" (Dance of the Shepherdess) from his ballet "Sonatina", excerpts from Manuel de Falla's "Siete canciones populares españolas" as well as three dances from Enrique Granados y Campiña's "Danzas españolas" completed the program. |
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Mario Conway New CD Release, Cardiff – UKby Rob Howard |
 Mario Conway, 5 times All Britain Virtuoso Champion in the 1970s, has long been one of the UK’s country’s finest and best-known classical accordionists. His new CD entitled “Accordion pieces I have enjoyed playing” presents 17 of his favourite concert items, all performed as solo accordion numbers, and with no accompaniment or multi-tracking – just as one would hear when played live in a recital. The CD has superb sound quality with perfect balance between the treble and bass sides of the accordion. The pieces are all performed with considerable style and authority, and from start to finish you are listening to a master at his craft. This recording is in effect a lifetime perspective of Mario’s lengthy concert career, and is a must for anyone who enjoys solo classical accordion. The recording opens with Bel Viso, a lively Frosini composition beloved of accordionists, then there is a change of mood with an individual arrangement of Piazzolla’s Libertango. Pietro Deiro’s Pietro’s Return is another item often played by accordionists, as is Monti’s Czardas. My personal favourite track is the Sonata in D, by Scarlatti, which has great interplay between two hands using free bass, and there’s some really tricky stuff going on in there! The CD finishes with yet another accordionists’ favourite, the Carnival of Venice, and this version combines elements of both the Pietro Frosini and Pietro Deiro arrangements - a fireworks display to conclude a splendid and modestly priced (at a mere £5) CD that will be a treat for all those of who delight in excellence. Tracks: Bel Viso (Pietro Frosini), Libertango (Astor Piazzolla), Liikku (Petri Makonen), Pietro’s Return (Pietro Deiro), Scherzo (John Gart), Britannia (P. Frosini), Gitanarias (Ernesto Lecuona), Finale from the Suite for Bayan (Anatoli Cholminov), Czardas (Vittorio Monti), Sonata in D (Domenico Scarlatti), Sabre Dance (Aram Khachaturian), Toccata (Albin Repnikov), Toccata No 1 (Ole Schmidt), Finale from the Ukranian Suite (Nicolai Tchaikin), 3rd Movement from Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto (P. I. Tchaikovsky), William Tell Overture (G. Rossini), Carnival of Venice (arranged by Pietro Frosini & Pietro Deiro) For further information email: blueboy111@virginmedia.com |
Video: Cory Pesaturo at the South Pacific Accordion Championships - New Zealandby Harley Jones |
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| Videos from the recent festival in New Zealand: Video 1: Guest artist Cory Pesaturo (USA) performing Fly Me To The Moon, Doo Ops Video 2: Cory Pesaturo performing Klezmer Medley The 2019 NZAA South Pacific Accordion Championships & Festival were held on June 1st and 2nd at the Raye Freedman Arts Centre in Auckland, and celebrated the “10th Anniversary of the 2009 Coupe Mondiale” which the NZAA hosted in Takapuna, New Zealand. Daily Reports including results, photos and video are online at: 2019SouthPac |
Jonathan Dove talks about Concerto “Northern Lights” - UKby Christine Johnstone |
  Jonathan Dove is interviewed by Michael Pearce, Editor Lucy Thraves for "Classical Music", the current affairs magazine for the classical music industry. Jonathan Dove tells Michael Pearce about his new concerto featuring accordion titled “Northern Lights”.Accordionist Owen Murray (picture right) and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra commissioned an accordion concerto from Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Sadly, Davies died just before starting the concerto, but Jonathan Dove (picture left) accepted the invitation to bring it to fruition. Read the interview: 2019DoveInterview.pdf |
Video: Grayson Masefield at the South Pacific Accordion Championships - New Zealandby Harley Jones |
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| Videos from the recent festival in New Zealand: Video 1: Grayson Masefield, 3rd movement of Impasse composed by Franck Angelis Sheet music .pdf format vailable online, Catalog: ang556 - Impasse (Solo) Video 2: Grayson Masefield, A French melody - sorry about the late starting camera. Daily Reports including results, photos and video are online at: 2019SouthPac |
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Veikko Ahvenainen June Concerts – Finlandby Christine Johnstone |
 Concert accordionist and composer, Veikko Ahvenainen and his wife Carina Nordlund will combine with local clubs to perform a series of concerts in Finland this month. The duo play a program of works by Shostakovich, Strauss and Sibelius as well as Finnish tangoes and polkas, plus Veikko Ahvenainen’s own compositions.Concert details are: June 26th: Leppävirta, Valtuustosali (Council Hall) June 27th: Kangasniemi, Kangasniemisali Hall June 28th: Hauho, Hauhotalo, klo 19.00 June 30th: Mäntyharju, Kulttuurisali (Culture Hall) For further information email: veikko.ahvenainen@nic.fi |
President & Vice President’s Evening, Stockport – UKby Rob Howard |
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| On Wednesday 26th June at 7.30pm, Stockport Accordion Club presents a concert – the President & Vice President’s Evening - featuring spots from President Pearl Fawcett-Adriano, Vice President Walter Perrie, Helen Rich, Rob Howard, Adrienne Sharpe & John Curvis, John Jones MBE, Ann Parker, Martina Hall, Dorothy Brincat, the club’s Scottish Quartet, Accordion Spice, and the Stockport Accordion Band. The venue is Woodley Methodist Church, Chapel St, Woodley, Stockport, Cheshire SK6 1NF. Admission is £5, and all are welcome. For further information email: robaccord5@hotmail.com |
Docklands Firelight Festival – Australiaby Christine Johnstone |
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 The Vardos Trio which includes accordionist Sophia Chapman will perform at the Docklands Firelight Festival in Melbourne from June 28th to 30th. Vardos play Gypsy and folk music learnt from Roma (Gypsy) musicians during their travels in Eastern Europe.The festival is a celebration of the Winter Solstice, a unique and compelling event experience which attracts over 50,000 spectators to celebrate art, fire, entertainment and community. For further details email: vardos@hotmail.com |
“No Words” Auckland Accordion Symphonietta Concert - New Zealandby Christine Johnstone |
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 The Auckland Accordion Symphonietta will perform a concert entitled “No Words” at the Rose Centre in Belmont, Auckland on July 7th at 6 pm. The Auckland Accordion Symphonietta is conducted by well known vocalist and accordionist Lionel Reekie (picture right).Their program will include some fun pieces such as “Two plus One” (Gary Daverne) , and “Trololo Song” as well as works by Rossini, Strauss, Rubinstein and Leroy Anderson. For further concert details email: heathermasefield@yahoo.com |
Earagail Arts Festival – Irelandby Christine Johnstone |
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| The Earagail Arts Festival will be held in Donegal, Ireland from July 10th to 28th. This popular summer festival is a celebration of multidisciplinary arts and includes two weeks of music, theatre, visual arts, film, literature, circus & carnival which takes place each July in the North West of Ireland along the Wild Atlantic Way. Accordion performers who will entertain at the festival include “Ceol Agus Tapas” (picture above) who will give numerous free performances during the festival and “Lankum” (picture below) which includes Radie Peat (harmonium, accordion & vocals), brothers Ian Lynch (uilleann pipes, tin whistle & vocals), Daragh Lynch (vocals & guitar) alongside Cormac Mac Diarmada (fiddle). They will entertain with a variety of folk music. For further festival details email: info@eaf.ie |
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July CNIMA Courses - Franceby Christine Johnstone |
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 Registrations are now open for CNIMA (directed by Nathalie Boucheix) summer Improvement Courses. Five day courses will be held from July 15th to 20th and July 22nd to 27th. Shorter courses of two and a half days will be held from July 15th to 17th and July 22nd to 24th. These courses are for all levels and styles and are open to all ages.Course content includes the educational system recognized worldwide by Jacques Mornet and will cover individual and group lessons in body positions and use of joints, phrasing, technique and bellows control. Students can also prepare for examinations, regional, national or international competitions during these courses. For further details email: cnima@wanadoo.fr |
EFFE Awards 2019 - Belgiumby Christine Johnstone |
 The European Festivals Association (EFA) and the EFFE International Jury chaired by Sir Jonathan Mills (former director of the Edinburgh International Festival) is pleased to announce the festivals that are finalists for the 2019-2020 EFFE Awards.This biennial prize celebrates arts festivals that demonstrate artistic excellence and at the same time have a strong impact on the local and regional development of cultural cooperation. EFFE – Europe for Festivals, Festivals for Europe is initiated by the European Festivals Association (EFA) and supported by the European Commission. The winners will be presented during the EFFE Awards Ceremony in Bozar, Center for Fine Arts Brussels on September 26th, 2019. Many accordionists perform at these festivals and the organisers have announced that the EFFE Audience choice online voting is now open, so people all around the world can cast their vote for their favourite festival. Music festival finalists include: BBC Proms (UK), Förde Festival (Förde, Norway), Gaida Festival (Vilnius, Lithuania), Festival Deltebre Dansa (Spain), Festival Khamoro (Czech Republic), Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival (Finland), Music Biennale Zagreb (Croatia), Prague Spring Festival (Czech Republic) and Welcome to The Village (Netherlands). For further information email: naima@efa-aef.eu |
Joey Miskulin AAA Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation - USAby Harley Jones |
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 The 2019 Carrozza Dinner on Sunday, September 8, will feature the Presentation to Joey Miskulin of the AAA Lifetime Achievement Award. The evening at Famee Furland of NA Club includes Cocktail Hour, Dinner and Dancing, wine with all proceeds going to the Camen Carrozza Scholarship Fund for the advancement of promising young accordionists. Download the reservation and booking flier: 2019CarrozzaDinner.pdf This honour is in recognition of the exceptionally prolific contribution Joey Miskulin has made to the recording industry, having played on hundreds of albums with many of country and popular music’s best known names over many years. Since the 1970s, Joey Miskulin has recorded with the likes of Paul McCartney, U2, John Denver, Ricky Skaggs, Andy Williams, Ricky Van Shelton, Emmylou Harris, Frankie Yankovic, Garth Brooks, to name but some. Also a singer, arranger, and producer, Joey Miskulin is well known for performing country music as ‘Joey the Cowpolka King’ with the band Riders in the Sky and polkas with Frankie Yankovic, but his versatility extends into jazz, evidenced by his album, ‘The Other Side of the Fence’. Also in 1990 for his ground breaking ‘Accordion Styles and Techniques’ video/DVD, which was the first video of its kind. Miskulin’s production credits include ‘Toy Story’ for Disney/Pixar, and recently in Shanghai, China, where he spent two weeks working with the Walt Disney Company. |
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Updated Site: Friedrich Lips New CD Quodlibet - Austriaby Harley Jones |
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 Updated information about Catalog CD029 Quodlibet CD by Friedrich Lips.Updated biography at: Lips Biography |
Schedule Released, Leavenworth International Accordion Celebration – USAby Harley Jones |
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| The detailed schedule has been released for the Leavenworth International Accordion Celebration (LIAC) which will take place from June 20th to 23rd in Leavenworth, Washington sponsored by the Northwest Accordion Society. Download: 2019Leavenworth.pdf This is a celebration of the accordion’s versatility and its presence in many cultures. Accordion music is what this event is all about! For further information view the website at: Leavenworth International Accordion Celebration (LIAC) |
Renzo Ruggieri Releases Song for S.B. for Accordion & Orchestra - Italyby Harley Jones |
  Renzo Ruggieri has released Song For S.B. for accordion & orchestra or accordion & string orchestra.Catalog: rrenzo500 - Song for S.B. was composed in 2002 and published in 2003 as a compulsory piece for the jazz section of the international competition "Stefano Bizzarri" of Morro D'Oro (Italy). The central “only accordion” indication invites the soloist to improvise on the structure of the first theme -B- (by the same author, there is a version for solo accordion that includes a usable transcribed solo). rrenzo500 - This massive musical digital pdf booklet of 55 pages includes the score and all parts for: 1. accordion & orchestra (full score & individual parts) for: Accordion, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet in Bb, Bassoon, Horn in F and Strings (I Violin, II Violin, Viola, Cello, Double bass). (full score & individual parts) AND 2. accordion & string orchestra (full score & individual parts) for: Accordion & Strings (I Violin, II Violin, Viola, Cello, Double bass). (full score & individual parts) Catalog: rrenzo501 - Song for S.B. (solo) was released much earlier and is recorded on Renzo Ruggieri Collection Album Catalog: rruggieri07 |
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