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| Competitions ran most of the day |
in many different venues around the ship |
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| from the main stage. Hohner Accordion Orchestra from Xiamen Province. |
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| Competitors waiting |
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| Jury members at the main hall. |
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| Many of the competitors were in very nice costumes |
Some venue organisers put the competition number on the accordion. Interesting idea. |
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| Even the stage on the Pool Deck was being used for competitions. Here is the jury for those categories. The wind was warm and blowing quite strongly as you can see from the table curtain. |
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| Huang Da and Pietro Adragna |
Zhang Xin Hua Ding Peng |
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| Huang Da and Ding Peng, Manager of Hohner China are two very hard working organisers who have done so much work, planning and organizing to make this event such a tremendous success. This was one of the few times I saw them standing still - but only for a few seconds!!! |
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| Tianjia Zhou from Tianjin Music College |
Tianjie Li |
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| Wherever Ding Peng was, people were taking pictures with him. |
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| Some larger groups were performing on the main stage. |
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| Experimental Primary School, Zhongshan and Xiamen Foreign Language School Affiliated School Haicang. |
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| Each competition venue had a Jury and above are the jury members in the main hall this morning competitions. (left to right) Varuzhan Shanshiyev,Shitu Mei, Yong Fu, Jian Feng, Jinming Ding. |
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| Competitors |
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| Jury members at the "nightclub" competition venue. Xiaotong Liu, Yinan Wang, Maxim Ternovsky, Wenwen Chen, Shuwen Chen, Yuanyuan Song. |
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| Accordion Children Orchestra from Hong Kong. |
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| Competitors |
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| Jury members (left to right): Zhuoling Bai, Yan Li, He Liu, Wenke Hu, Pin Yi, Fenfang Mo, Guoqi Xu at the floor 5 venue which was small floor size but had nice accoustics with a high ceiling to floor 12 and you could hear the music on the different floors and in the elevators too. |
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| Competitors |
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| Xiao Chang (Shell) compere. |
Matteo Petronio (Italy) |
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| Matteo Petronio |
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The next concert was supposed to be on the Pool Deck but it rained so the venue was shifted inside.
Song Yue (Moon) performing |
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| Wang Jie (Sara) |
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| Li Shuyu |
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| Yu Sitong |
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| Xiamen University Accordion Orchestra. |
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| Hohner Accordion Orchestra from Xiamen Province. |
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| Dantong Wang |
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| Art College from Dalian Accordion Orchestra. |
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| from accordion orchestra from Yantai Art College in Shandong Province. |
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| Xiaoran Liu and Sha Zeng from Sichuan Music College. |
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| Yangyini Liu |
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| Varuzhan Shanshiyev (Ukraine) and Maxim Ternovsky (Russia) accompanying a singer. |
