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Top Accordion Players
Are you a professional event planner or a consultant who books two or more events per year? Or, are you one of those who enjoy listening to the accordion music with a popular accordion player playing it? Well, if your answer is affirmative to any of those questions, I think it is best for you to know first about certain accordion players who can give you the fun and excitement you want most. I have mentioned a few of them here.
Classical Accordion Players
* Teodoro Anzellotti is among the best classical accordion players in the world. The repertoire of this man ranges from the Baroque to composers like Berio and Kagel or Erik Satie. Anzelloti also teaches among others at the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Biel in Switzerland.
* Kallis Bengtsson is a classical accordion player from Visby, Sweden. He is now currently living in Goteborg and he has performed solo concerts throughout Sweden and Europe. He had in fact been featured in a number of radio and television recordings, and now he has founded a private music school in Goteborg, which offers classes in accordion and piano. Bengtsson is also a composer.
Jazz and Avant-Garde
* Amy Denio is an avant-garde composer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who played in the second Accordion Tribe tour. She is now based in Seattle.
* Bob Goldberg is one of the best accordion players from New York who plays in the Brooklyn Academy of Noise Radio Orchestra, as well as in Le Nozze di Carlo.
* Kurt Larsen is a professional accordionist from Denmark who plays mainly jazz. He also plays and has recorded other genres, like the Danish childrens songs, and Danish evergreen and musette.
Entertainers
* Casey Admiraal is one of the best accordion players and organists who was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He is now settling in Vancouver, Canada, and over the years he has played at a number of weddings. He also played Pipe Organ in Church services, weddings, and funerals for many years. Admiraal had recorded someCDs in 2002, amongst which one with accordion classics.
* Hugh Barwell is an accordion player from York, England who plays a wide range of styles. As a musician, he has written guide books on different MIDI modules intended for accordion players. He even teaches accordion as well as MIDI accordion.
Rock
* Ad Cominotto from Belgium, started to play contemporary classical music for accordion while he studied piano at the conservatory of Liege. Recently, as one of the acclaimed accordion players, Cominotto has taken up the classical side again after he switched to keyboard.
* Zolty Cracker is a motorfolk tribal-pop band from Vancouver, with Annie Wilkinson on bass, accordion and vocals.
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Accordion Music Memories
It's every kid's dream to play the accordion in a local talent show, right? OK, well, maybe not so much a dream as something that seems like fun at the time, but a memory that will make you cringe in horror years later when you look back at the pictures.
This story is a memory and tip / warning for accordion players everywhere. Actually, it is a valuable tip for anyone playing a musical instrument on stage where a spotlight will be in use during the show.
We started having meetings and rehearsals for the local talent show about a month and a half before the scheduled date of the show. The organization putting on the talent show had to rent the spotlight so they planned to only get it in time for the dress rehearsal, which was the day before the actual show. Therefore, during all the other rehearsals, we only had the regular fluorscent lighting in the room and the general stage lighting.
On the night of the final dress rehearsal, the person in charge of operating the spotlight could not get it to work so we went through the rehearsal without it. I had been practicing my accordion faithfully and played a medley of several songs flawlessly during the rehearsal.
The next day, on the night of the actual talent show, the spotlight was working properly. When it was my turn to perform, the audience applauded as I walked out on to the stage with my accordion strapped to my chest carrying my accordion sheet music. I sat down and placed the sheet music on the stand. The general house lights dimmed and the spotlight came on.
That's when I realized it was time to panic. Stage fright, you think? Not at all, I loved being on the stage with an audience of hundreds. The reason for panic was because the spotlight was so strong that it shone right through the sheet music! I couldn't see any of the notes on the pages.
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