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National Roland V-Accordion Festival, Los Angeles – USA
Zoltan Orosz Trio at ‘Accordion in Jazz’ Festival, Tallinn – Estonia
4th Accordion Art Festival, Pineto – Italy
Håvard Svendsrud’s Concerts as Radio Broadcasts – Norway, Sweden
AATA Australian International Accordion Championships, Sydney - Australia
Reports for Concerts, Masterclasses, Competitions, Festivals, etc. |
Ken Hopkins Helps out Snow Patrol, Northern Ireland – UK
South Pacific Accordion Championships, Auckland - New Zealand
Future events |
Mika Väyrynen to appear at renowned Naantali Music Festival, Naantali – Finland
Emmanuel Gasser CD-Release-Concert, Ontario - Canada
Accordion Concert: ‘PURE & MORE’, Vienna - Austria
Stroud Arts Festival: ‘Accordion Day’, Gloucestershire – UK
‘Unerhörte Music’ Concert Series for Contemporary Music, Berlin - Germany
Jack Emblow in ‘Spirit of Django’ Tour/CD – UK, Italy, Ireland
Rafal Luc and Jessica Hayes Concert, Chichester Festival - UK
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Harbin China Summer International Accordion Art Week - Chinaby Harley Jones |
 The Harbin 2010 China Summer International Accordion Art Week is organized by the Ministry of Culture of China and the People's Government of Harbin, with co-organizers the Music Education Branch, Chinese Society of Music Education and Musicians Association of Heilongjiang Province, and the major sponsor is Harbin Normal University, Harbin, China. Harbin 2010From August 7th to 10th 2010, some of the finest accordionists around the world will be competing and performing at the Concert Hall of Harbin Normal University. There will be concerts, workshops, and a major international accordion competition, which is divided into 13 categories of solo and group sections for all ages. The Harbin 2010 chief organiser of the event is Professor Wang Hongyu, the Head of Keyboard department, Music College, Harbin Normal University. Professor Want Hongyu is professor, master tutor, and famous accordion player, educator, who has been invited to Russia, France and other international accordion competitions as a jury member some 10 times in recent years, so has the experience and knowledge to run this major international event. Full information is on the website Harbin 2010 including the rules and the competition application form. |
National Roland V-Accordion Festival, Los Angeles – USAby Steven Albini, Roland Corporation U.S. |
  Roland U.S. is proud to announce the U.S. National V-Accordion Festival will take place in Los Angeles on Saturday, September 18th 2010.This increasingly popular event will be held at Roland Corporation U.S. headquarters and will bring together some of America’s most talented accordionists. The Grand Prize winner will win a Roland FR-7x accordion and a trip to Rome, Italy, to compete for the World Title and 5,000 Euros at the 4th International Accordion Festival in October (Senior Soloist Division only). Initial audition entrants may submit a DVD of themselves performing on a traditional accordion or a Roland V-Accordion. The audition performance must be no longer than 10 minutes in length and can be from any musical genre. Medleys or multiple songs are allowed, provided the total length of the performance is no longer than 10 minutes. Entries must be postmarked by July 15th 2010. Both amateurs and professionals are eligible to compete. The chosen national finalists will then play on V-Accordions, via special loan arrangements by Roland Corporation U.S. and its dealers. For further information email: steven.albini@rolandus.com |
Zoltan Orosz Trio at ‘Accordion in Jazz’ Festival, Tallinn – Estoniaby Holda Paoletti-Kampl |
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| The last day of the festival ‘Vision VIII Accordion in Jazz’, held from June 2nd to 5th in Tallinn, Estonia, concluded with a concert by the honoured guests, from Hungary, the Zoltan Orosz Trio. As at most of the well known trio’s performances, also in Tallin, they were rewarded with standing ovations. The day before their concert, Zoltan Orosz held a workshop with the theme: ‘How do I use the accordion as a jazz instrument?’ A link to the video you can find here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxbBoUtYh40&feature=player_embedded For further information contact Csirmaz Szilvia: csirmaz@harmonika.hu |
4th Accordion Art Festival, Pineto – Italyby Holda Paoletti-Kampl |
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| The 2010 Accordion Art Festival, Artistic Director Renzo Ruggieri, takes place in Pineto (TE, Italy) on June 12th and 13th. Russian virtuoso Vitali Dmitriev performs in concert on June 13th. The festival includes: • the Italia Award – an international competition for accordion, piano, keyboard, guitar, singing, jazz, electronic composition, and ensembles • the Orpheus Award – a critics award for 2009 accordion CDs and MP3, divided into classical, jazz and world music • national selection for the CMA Tropheé Mondiale, to be held in Spain For further information email: info@accordionartfestival.com |
Håvard Svendsrud’s Concerts as Radio Broadcasts – Norway, Swedenby Holda Paoletti-Kampl |
 The Norwegian accordionist Håvard Svendsrud performed a concert in Oslo Concert Hall on January 30th this year, and this was recorded for Swedish Radio P2. The concert will be broadcast on Saturday June 26th at 12.03 pm (local time) in a program called ‘Dragspel’. (Dragspel is the Swedish word for accordion) on the Swedish Radio website: http://sverigesradio.se/sida/default.aspx?programid=2400 )On April 26th Håvard Svendsrud performed in concert at the Modum Culture Hall, and the Norwegian Broadcast Corporation Radio P2 will broadcast this accordion concert on June 8th at 7.30 pm (local time) in the program called ‘Kammertjenerne’. The listeners will be able to find a link to this program also a few days after the concert has been broadcast. http://www.nrk.no/programmer/sider/kammertjenerne/). The program includes: ‘Mosaico Español’ - Felice Fugazza, ‘Asturias’ - Isaac Albeniz (arr F. Lips), ‘Pohádky’ (concert suite for accordion and piano) - Vaclav Trojan. |
AATA Australian International Accordion Championships, Sydney - Australiaby Tania Lukic-Marx |
 The full program of the event is available on the AATA website and at Australian International ChampionshipsFull information about the guest artists and other accordion activities over the weekend are also on the website. Daily Reports of the AATA Australian International Accordion Championships including photos and full results will be online over the weekend. report_2010_june_12th and report_2010_june_13th. For further information email: info@aata.org.au |
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New CD featuring Mikko Luoma, Helsinki – Finlandby Holda Paoletti-Kampl |
 ‘Tiensuu’ is the title of a new CD by ‘Plus Ensemble’, released on the Finnish lable Alba.‘Plus Ensemble’ is a trio comprising Mikko Luoma – accordion, Erkki Lahesmaa – cello, and Christoffer Sundqvist - clarinet. The compositions are by Jukka Tiensuu, who also performs on the CD as a pianist. Jukka Tiensuu (born 1948) is among the most important Finnish composers, and he has written a substantial amount of music for the accordion since 1977: two concertos, solo pieces and chamber music. Mikko Luoma has recorded previously his solo pieces ‘Aufschwung’ and ‘Zolo’, and his recording of the accordion concerto ‘Spiriti’, by Tiensuu (together with the Avanti! chamber orchestra, conducted by Susanna Mälkki) was given the title ‘CD of the Year’, by the Finnish broadcasting company Yle in 2009. For further information email: mikko.luoma@turkuamk.fi |
Ken Hopkins Helps out Snow Patrol, Northern Ireland – UKby Rob Howard |
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| Snow Patrol are an alternative rock band who have become commercially very successful since signing for Polydor Records in 2002, having sold over ten million albums worldwide. On June 5th Snow Patrol played at Ward Park in Bangor, Northern Ireland, to a crowd of over 40,000. Well known accordion collector Ken Hopkins, who lives locally, was surprised to receive a phone call from them beforehand, saying they wanted to hire an accordion. The band borrowed a Marinucci musette tuned piano accordion, which had previously belonged to Coco the Clown and has the original clown stickers on it. The accordion was played by a girl in the backing orchestra, thus giving some exposure to the instrument. |
South Pacific Accordion Championships, Auckland - New Zealandby Heather Masefield |
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| South Pacific Daily Reports including results and photographs are online. The South Pacific Accordion Championships, which includes the New Zealand Accordion Championships, were held at Epsom, Auckland, on June 5th and 6th. Enjoy the cute video of Alanah Jones (7 years) and Maurice Jones performing at the Farewell Dinner. http://www.accordion-space4u.com/user.aspx?user=6&item=6&id=136 South Pacific Daily Reports including results are available online. |
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Accordion Concerts This Saturday, London – UKby Romano Viazzani |
 There’s a busy time ahead for accordionists here in London this Saturday. If you're in London next weekend don't miss these events:Firstly Owen Murray's phenomenal accordion students from the Royal Academy of Music Ksenija Sidorova, Amadej Herzog, Trang Nguyen, Martynas Levickis and Rafal Luc, who have had a cracking year to date, will be playing at a lovely summer concert at Our Lady and St Thomas of Canterbury Church, 22 Roxborough Park, Harrow on the Hill, HA1 3BE. It's at 7.30pm on Saturday June 12th. The tickets cost £10 and include a Smoked Salmon supper and Strawberries and Cream. The concert should end at around 9.30pm. The bar is open from 7pm and for the supper. You could always get these tickets from the parish office directly on 020 8869 6896. The same night, June 12th, sees excellent Brazilian Jazz accordionist Chico Chagas play with the amazing pianist Simon Mulligan and Eduardo Mendonça - drums, Gili Lopes - bass and Special Guest - Caroline Sant’Anna - percussion. Quite a few of us are already planning to go from Harrow straight after the classical concert down to The Hideaway for some Jazz. The set starts at 9.30pm or a little later so those who go to both may only catch the later set. Definitely worth seeing though as Chico, Simon and the gang are jaw-droppingly amazing together. For further information email: romanoviazzani@btconnect.com |
Mika Väyrynen to appear at renowned Naantali Music Festival, Naantali – Finlandby Kevin Friedrich |
 Finnish accordionist Mika Väyrynen will appear in concert at the renowned 31st Naantali Music Festival, in Naantali, Finland. One of the oldest and most highly esteemed of the Finnish music festivals, the festival has featured recitals by top world artists including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Barbara Hendricks, Isaac Stern, Krzysztof Penderecki and many more.Mika will perform at the Merimasku Church on Sunday June 13th, when he presents Aulis Sallinen´s ‘Preludes and Fugues Op. 95 for Solo Accordion’. On June 14th he will perform on Prof. Aulis Sallinen’s 75th Anniversary Concert. On this celebration program, Mika will perform his ‘Chamber Music V- Barabbas Variations’ for Accordion and Strings with the ‘Virtuosi di Kuhmo’ orchestra, under the direction of Ralf Gothoni. For more information, please visit www.naantalinmusiikkijuhlat.fi/en |
Emmanuel Gasser CD-Release-Concert, Ontario - Canadaby Rob Howard |
 13 year old Canadian accordionist Emmanuel Gasser releases ‘Bringing Happiness To You’, his second recording, at a CD Release Concert on Sunday, June 13th, 1.30pm – 3.30pm, at the Jubilee Center, 195 Applegrove St, Sudbury, Ontario. The CD contains ten of Emmanuel’s own compositions as well as a collection of international and traditional accordion music. Emmanuel Gasser intends to compete in the Kimberley International Old Time Accordion Championships, which take place in British Columbia, Canada, July 5th to 10th. For further information email: juniormaestro01@yahoo.ca |
Accordion Concert: ‘PURE & MORE’, Vienna - Austriaby Holda Paoletti-Kampl |
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| On Saturday June 19th, 6pm at the Volksheim Jedlersdorf, Siemensstrasse 17, 1210 Vienna, Hermi Kaleta’s accordion ensemble performs an entertaining concert, featuring solo and orchestral arrangements, including some vocal numbers. For further information email: Kaleta.hermi@aon.at |
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Stroud Arts Festival: ‘Accordion Day’, Gloucestershire – UKby Romano Viazzani |
 Accordionists Mike Adcock and Pete Rosser present an ‘Accordion Day’ in Stroud, Gloucestershire, on Sunday June 20th, which includes a workshop and concerts.In the afternoon, 2pm until 5pm, there is an accordion workshop, held at The Space, Lansdown. The workshop will be catered to suit all levels of ability and cover a range of musical styles with the emphasis on ensemble playing. . At 8pm, in The Imperial Hotel, Stroud, there is a concert, described as “an evening of accordions, improvisation and surprises”, featuring the Mike Adcock Group, an ensemble performance of accordion workshop participants, musicians from the Cheltenham Improvisers’ Group, plus guests to be confirmed. For further information email: info@mikeadcock.com |
‘Unerhörte Music’ Concert Series for Contemporary Music, Berlin - Germanyby Holda Paoletti-Kampl |
 On Tuesday June 22nd, 8.30pm, an evening concert with the duo Brilling & Mahnken (Uwe Mahnken - accordion and Jorgen Brilling - classical guitar and electric guitar) takes place in the BKA-Theater, Mehring Damm 34, Berlin. This concert is part of the ‘Unerhörte Music’ Concert Series for Contemporary Music. |
Jack Emblow in ‘Spirit of Django’ Tour/CD – UK, Italy, Irelandby Rob Howard |
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 To mark the 100th Anniversary of the birth of the legendary Django Reinhardt, leading jazz guitarist Martin Taylor has reformed his award winning group, ‘Spirit of Django’, featuring accordionist Jack Emblow, for a new CD, 'Last Train to Hauteville', and a tour. Concert dates include (with more to follow soon): June 18th, 7.30pm – radio broadcast on ‘Friday Night Is Music Night’, BBC Radio 2. 23rd – Spa Pavilion, Strathpepper, Scotland 24th, 7.30pm - Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow Jazz Festival July 7th – Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy 21st – The Model, Sligo, Republic of Ireland 23rd – North Gallery, Petworth House, Petworth, West Sussex, England 27th – Auden Theatre, Holt, Norfolk Martin Taylor first came to prominence in the 1970s through his work with violinist Stephane Grappelli, and has gone on to collaborate with artists as diverse as Jeff Beck, Jamie Cullum, Bill Wyman and Bryn Terfel. Jack Emblow has long been acknowledged as Britain’s leading jazz accordionist, but is also well known for his session work on films, television and on recordings. |
Rafal Luc and Jessica Hayes Concert, Chichester Festival - UKby Rob Howard |
  Rafal Luc - accordion and Jessica Hayes – cello perform together in a ‘Lewis Brownlee Lunchtime Concert’ at St John's Chapel, Chichester, on June 25th, 1.10pm. This concert is part of the annual Chichester Festival in West Sussex, and is presented in association with the Royal Academy of Music, London. Their programme includes: JS Bach – ‘Viola da Gamba Sonata in G major BWV1027’ Saint-Saëns – ‘Prière in G Op 158’ Mendelssohn – ‘Chorale and Variations from Organ Sonata No 6in D minor Op 65/6’ (accordion solo) David Gorton – ‘Tahtela, Place of the Stars’ Rachmaninov – ‘Vocalise Op 34 No 14’ Piazzolla – ‘Le Grande Tango’ For further information email: info@chifest.org.uk |
CD Reviews |
"Conversation of the Muses"by Alessandro Mugnoz |
 CD Reviews Index for the Review of "Conversation of the Muses" by Alessandro Mugnoz. Performers are Andreas Borregaard (accordion -fisarmonica classica) and Asbjorn Norgaard (viola-track7). |
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Dan and Kim Christian 4 new CDsby Dan and Kim Christian |
 Dan and Kim Christian selling 4 new CD titled 'USA Tour', catalog:dkchristian01, 'World Tour', catalog:dkchristian02, 'Polka Power', catalog:dkchristian03 and 'Squeeze Play', catalog:dkchristian04 with sound samples. Music performed by Dan and Kim Christian. Purchase online. |
Evelyn Tiffany-Castiglioni releases new pieces of her new workby Evelyn Tiffany-Castiglioni |
 Evelyn Tiffany-Castiglioni releases 4 new pieces of her new work, 'Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Chorale from Cantata 147)', catalog:etc201, 'Behold the Lamb of God (Chorus from “The Messiah”)', catalog:etc202, 'Hallelujah Chorus (from “The Messiah”)', catalog:etc203 and 'Pastoral Symphony (from “The Messiah”)', catalog:etc204. Samples of the music are available online. The music are in eSheet format, able to be emailed to your computer. Purchase with credit card. |
HS Production releases new musicby H S Productions |
 H S Production releases 6 new pieces, 'Shadow - Shadow', catalog:hs339, 'The Crane', catalog:hs340, 'Slovenian Song',catalog:hs341, 'The Kind Scallywag', catalog:hs394 and 'A Green Meadow', catalog:hs365. Samples of the music are available online. The music are in eSheet format, able to be emailed to your computer. Purchase with credit card. |
MusicForAccordion.com releases new musicby MusicForAccordion.com |
 MusicForAccordion.com site release 1 new music 'All Hands For'ard! Tout Le Monde A Bord Alle Mann An Deck', catalog:mfa8022. Samples of the music are available online. The music are in eSheet format, able to be emailed to your computer. Purchase with credit card. |
HS Production releases new musicby H S Productions |
| H S Production releases 6 new pieces, 'Russian Song (Solo and Duet)', catalog:hs389, 'Etude 11', catalog:hs387, 'Etude 9', catalog:hs384, 'Etude - Waltz', catalog:hs385, 'Etude 5', catalog:hs380 and 'Etude 6', catalog:hs381. Samples of the music are available online. The music are in eSheet format, able to be emailed to your computer. Purchase with credit card. |
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| have an old small accordion, Camillo Jr. but do not seem able to find any instruction books for same. Where may I be able to get a book from which I can hopefully teach myself how to play this instrument?? |
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| The New Zealand Accordion Association 40th anniversary is in June next year and we want to contact all senior category championship competition winners over the last 40 years. Also players in orchestras. Register here for the NZAA e-newsletter, and find out what’s happening: www.accordion.co.nz |
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