Kansas City basé Vivant! A récemment organisé un lancement d’un CD Signing Party Concert à Kansas City. Un ensemble de musiciens polyvalent, membre principal de la formation musicale a été centrée autour de l'accordéon, en plus de divers autres instruments à clavier acoustique et d'autres instruments de percussion.
L'objectif du groupe est de partager l'unique polyvalence de l'accordéon et les différents styles de musiques qui sont possible de produire avec l'instrument, et se manifeste dans la diversité de l'assortiment de matériel effectuées par le groupe, y compris des œuvres originales de Karen Fremar ainsi comme une série de transcriptions.
Parmis les musiciens dans le groupe, figurent Janne SILFVERBERG - trombone, Gail trop, Erica VandeVoort, Karen Fremar, Julie Silfverberg, Dee Siglar et Sarrah Cantrell - percussions.
Vladisalv Pligovka de la Bélarussie tiendra un Master Classe d’accordéon à Sydney, en Australie, le 9 et 10 juin.
Vladislav, renommée internationale est un accordéonniste de concert et artiste de lauréat de deux prestigieux concours international d'accordéon: 2007 à Kiev
Concours international d'accordéon et 2007 Compétition Internationale Klingenthal.
La Master Classe par Vladisalv Pligovka sera ouverte à tous les intéressés à participer. Pour plus d'information et pour s'inscrire, email Tania Lukic-Marx avant le 1er mai: tanialm@optusnet.com.au
Mika Väyrynen présente en première mondiale la dernière composition de Kusjakov, Londres - Royaume-Uni
Accordéoniste finlandais Mika Väyrynen interprétera la très attendu Première mondiale du célèbre compositeur Anatoli Kusjakov la Sonate n ° 7 'Misterium’ lors d'un concert au Royal Academy of Music de Londres le 14 avril.
La dernière œuvre Kusjakov avant son décès prématuré le 11 juillet 2007, cette Sonate n ° 7 est consacrée à Mika. À Londres, Mika effectuera également une Master Class pour les étudiants de l'Académie Royale de Musique.
De Londres, Mika se rendra en France pour organiser deux journées de Master Classes au Conservatoire de Paris (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique) le 16 et 17 avril, où le directeur d'Accordéon est le célèbre accordéoniste Max Bonnay.
La 68eme Annual Accordionists and Teachers Guild (ATG) concours et Festival aura lieu à Nashville, Tennessee, du 12 au 15 Juin, à l'Hôtel Preston à 733 Briley Parkway, Nashville.
Cette année, le festival mettra en vedette une excellente gamme de virtuose
Accordéonistes y compris ceux provenant des États-Unis, la Russie et la Nouvelle-Zélande. Repérage des artistes extraordinaires russe Alexander Shirunov, ancien champion de l'ATG et l'enregistrement artiste Jeff Lisenby, basée à Seattle musicien de Jazz Murl Allen Sanders et la championne accordéoniste de Nouvelle-Zélande.
En plus de ces artistes exceptionnels, le festival mettra en vedette de nombreuses activités telles que des ateliers, des concerts, le populaire Festival Orchestra, divers événements sociaux d'accordéon et bien d'autres activités présentant un intérêt pour tous ceux qui aiment l'accordéon.
Jean-Louis Noton et Nono Venturini donneront un concert en Para pente dans la station de La Plagne Vendredi 18 Avril.Ils tourneront au dessus d'un refuge Plagne 2000 et joueront avec un système HF audio pour "l'apérot ski"....
The Albertbridge Accordion Band was formed on August 9th 1957, and it’s first members were seven members of the Boys Brigade who had reached 18 years of age, the leaving age, and who did not want to lose touch with each other. This group formed an accordion band, and one of them, Billy Cummings, has been the Treasurer since the very beginning. Eventually the band admitted female accordionists.
In Northern Ireland there is a long established tradition of bands that march through the streets on parades, and some of these are accordion bands. These bands wear uniforms, and include drummers in their ranks. The Albertbridge Accordion Band takes part in the annual Orange Day Parade on July 12th, and other parades and festivals linked to the Ulster Loyalist tradition.
The Albertbridge Accordion Band has high standards of performance and dress, but also enjoys playing to the crowds, and its members have a sense of humour.
The band’s website notes: “We have had many laughs with the funny things that happened to us, such as marching into the wrong street as the band went on up the road, getting flags caught in trees, competing with the Duke of York Pipe Band who were practising in the room upstairs, and we even had a mouse eat the Canadian flag”.
Claude Cavagnolo était présent lors du grand festival d’accordéon de Samara (troisième ville de Russie située à 2.600 km au sud est de Moscou) qui s’est déroulé du 26 au 30 Mars.
Si les russes ont exportés, il y a 30 ans, le son et la musique spécifique à l’accordéon classique (ils ont faits école depuis et ont aidés à la création et au développement de marques italiennes comme Bugari), force est de constater qu’aujourd’hui ils se tournent de plus en plus vers le son et la musique de variété « made in France ».
Cavagnolo est maintenant la marque référence.
Cette année Alain Musichini avec son quartet de jazz, Joao Frade (Portugal) ont déclenchés un grand enthousiasme.
L’année dernière c’était Eric Bouvelle qui participait à ce grand festival organisé par Sergueï Voitenko, le leader du group BAYAN MIX, qui vulgarise la musique classique façon disco avec danseuses, vidéo sur écrans plasma, jeux de lumière délirants etc… Le duo joue sur Vedette 10 Cavagnolo à la présentation très particulière.
Nous vous recommandons de lire dans la rubrique « Evènements / Démos » l’article consacré à ce fantastique duo qui se produira à Drancy, en région parisienne, le 23 et 24 Mai, dans le cadre d’un festival organisé par Sergio Tomassi.
Leading Scottish accordionist Tom Alexander, from Glasgow, goes on a short tour of English accordion clubs in mid-April. Tom Alexander is best known as half of Scottish show business legends The Alexander Brothers. The tour dates include:
April 11th – Club Accord, Birmingham
12th – Soar Valley Accordion Club, Leicester
15th – North Staffs AC
16th, 8pm – Stockport Accordion Club
Domi Emorine and Roman Jbanov have each won numerous accordion competitions, including world championships. In 1997 they began to perform together, and their styles complemented each other so well they formed the Paris-Moscow Duo, and have visited Canada, China, Denmark, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Spain, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland and the UK. They often lead master classes in addition to concert performances, and in 2007 celebrate ten years together.
The Duo’s future dates include:
April 19th and 20th – concerts in the Salle du Foyer, Marcigny, Saône-et-Loire; email: ot.marcigny-semur@wanadoo.fr
May 9th to 13th – concerts and master classes at ‘Accordions International 2008’, Blackpool, UK. Also appearing Giancarlo Caporilli (Italy), Gary Blair, Romano Viazzani, Harry Hussey, Bert Santilly and Stefan Andrusyschyn, (UK); email: heather@accordions.karoo.co.uk
May 23rd and 24th – festival, Drancy, France
July 11th – festival, St Jeannet, France
July 18th to 20th – festival, Alcobaca, Portugal
August 9th to 14th – festival, La Bourboule, France
After its successful tour in 2007 TRIO P.S.P. (Perez-Sabatier-Pedreira) will be coming to Austria again. Ciro Perez performed with the big names of the ‘Tango’ Music during many years in Buenos Aires. Norberto Pedreira is a key ‘avant-garde’ Latin musician in the mix of the rhythms of the Latin-American continent. William Sabatier has an amazing knowledge and passion for the ‘Tanguera’ Culture. Since his teens, he has been spending his time with the best European Tango musicians.
Each of them has a very strong personality but once they put all their energy together, they become as ‘one’. They are on the same page, speak the same language called ‘Tango’ and above all, they have the same concept on how they should visualize, read, approach it. The magic and the deep connexion between Ciro, William and Norberto allows them to share intense and spontaneous moments of music. We can call them ‘Real Tangueros’.
William Sabatier - bandoneon is a Frenchman, Ciro Perez and Norberto Pedreira were born in Argentina, all three of them are living in Paris, France.
The tour dates will be as follows:
April 17th, 7pm - Rehab-Zentrum, Bad Tatzmannsdorf, Austria
18th, 8pm - Cult-beisl-restaurant, Wimpassing
19th, 8pm - Haus am Ring, Bad Leonfelden
21st, 8pm - LGV-Saal, Leibnitz
22nd, 8pm - Sargfabrik, Vienna
24th, 8.30pm - Völkermarkt, Step
25th, 8pm - Jazz-Keller, Schloss Porcia, Spittal / Drau
27th, 8pm - Freie Bühne Mayer, Mödling
Pearl Fawcett-Adriano is the guest artiste at Guildford Accordion Club on Friday April 18th, doors open at 7pm. The concert takes place at The Village Hall, Ripley, near Guildford, Surrey.
Spanish accordionist Ferran Martinez, performing a program on the Russian Bayan that includes music by C.Oudrid, A.Piazzolla, J.S.Bach, I.Albéniz and F.Tárrega, as follows:
April 19th – ‘La caixa’, Caldes de Montbui, Barcelona
27th - ‘La caixa’, Mataro, Barcelona
Café Accordion Orchestra performs an eclectic mix of vintage Swing, Latin, American, and French Café Music. The CAO, featuring accordionist Dan Newton, perform as follows:
April 12th, 7pm - St Barnabas Lutheran Church, Plymouth, MN
26th, 9.30pm - The Times Bar and Cafe, 201 East Hennepin Avenue Minneapolis, MN
Accordionist Raimondas Sviackevicius and cellist Mindaugas Backus are very active promoters of contemporary Lithuanian music. They often perform together, work as soloists, as a trio with violinist Vytautas Mikeliunas, or with other groups.
The duo will tour Poland in April, promoting new works by Lithuanian composers Bronius Kutavicius, Jurgita Miezelyte, Anatolijus Senderovas, including a world premiere of Juste Janulyte’s work ‘Aria’. The duo’s concert dates include:
April 18th - festival in Sanok, Poland
20th - Miejski Dom Kultury music and poetry festival, Czechowice-Dziedzice
21st - Bielsko-Biala
22nd - ‘Musica moderna’ concert cycle, Academy of Music, Lodz
23rd - W.Lutoslawski's Forum for Contemporary Music, Lublin
Slovenian accordionist Marko Hatlak performs in concert on Monday April 14th, 8pm, at Volksbad Jena, Knebelstraße 10, 07743 Jena, Germany. Marko Hatlak studied at the Franz List School for Music in Weimar, Germany, and is a master of various styles, including Tango Nuevo.
The Craven Accordion Orchestra under the Musical Direction of Harry Hinchcliffe is delighted to be performing for the second year in succession in the Idyllic North Yorkshire town of Settle on 12th April 2008 at 7-30 pm.
The Concert to be held in Settle Parish Church will feature Soloists from local schools from the Settle area. The orchestra will be performing a varied repertoire of music ranging from popular classics such as Granada by Lara, to Theme from Titanic "My Heart Will Go On", swinging along to Little Boogie and no concert would complete without a Traditional Tyrolean Polka/March.
The United States National
Accordion News has been updated to the April edition. The Feature
Review in April offers a summary of the recent National Accordion
Association Convention held in Texas.
MusicForAccordion.com
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