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The Isidro Larrañaga Accordion Orchestra is an accordion group based in Tolosa, Spain, and founded by Isidro Larrañaga Beloki in 1980. [1] It has about 25 members aged between 14 and 35. The director is Isitxo Larrañaga Moreno.
In October 2008, at only 19 years old, he is prize winner of most important accordion international competitions in senior category like Klingenthal, Premio di Castelfidardo, [7] Coupe Mondiale in Glasgow [6] and the first prize unanimously of the World Trophy in Sarajevo. [5] He was invited to the International Festival of Kragujevac in Serbia ...
In October 1998 at the Firth International Astor Piazzolla Competition in Castelfidardo, Italy, the duo was awarded the special prize for original music style. In 1999, by vote of Russian music critics Evelina Petrova was awarded the title of the Star of the Year.
The festival holds contests for best accordion player. Once every decade, the "King of Kings" accordion competition takes place, where winners of the previous festivals compete for the highest possible award for a vallenato accordion player: the Pilonera Mayor prize. [77] This is the world's largest competitive accordion festival.
European Classical music has long relied on music competitions to provide a public forum that identifies the strongest players and contributes to the establishment of their professional careers. This is a list of current competitions in classical music, with each competition and reference link given only once. Many offer competitions across a ...
Charlie Gillingham playing the accordion John Linnell performing with They Might Be Giants on a Main Squeeze 911 accordion in Fort Lauderdale on March 12, 2008 "Weird Al" Yankovic playing a Roland FR-7 V-Accordion. This is a list of articles describing popular music acts that incorporate the accordion.
Castelfidardo (Marchigiano: Castello) is a town and comune in the province of Ancona, in the Marche region of central-eastern Italy. It is remembered for a Piedmontese victory over an army composed of foreign volunteers defending the Papal States , on September 18, 1860.
Owen is the son of Chrissie Leatham and the grandson of Peter Robertson Leatham. Chrissie Leatham was one of Scotland's greatest accordion players and teacher to many of Scotland's best known musicians including Kenny McGinty, Simon Thoumire, Phil Cunningham, Ian McPhail, Sandy Brechin, Jim Johnstone to name but a few.