Joy Joy. Prioritize yourself. Do what you like, what gives you meaning. Keep learning, playing, studying something new, going to concerts, if this gives you enthusiasm. Playfulness. It is beautiful
27/10/2016, WAREGEM (OV) (BEL) Muziekacademie Waregem, 19u30 KunstCertWeek – Concert of the teachers at the Music Academy of Waregem. Music by C. Jacomucci, I. Volante (with clarinetist Joos Creteur). More info, program
26-27/11/2015, UTRECHT (NED) Buma Classical festival – Stukaklassiek With Luca Pignata and Barbara Ardenois (acc.) – Multiple choice Music by Grieg, Pagliarani, Vivaldi, Ravel, Gismonti, Sørensen, De Machaut. foto
Nordheim’s music is meant to be very playful. His Flashing, originally the cadenza of his concerto for accordion and orchestra (Spur), became eventually his most famous work for accordion. The
A very important page of the contemporary accordion literature, “Vagabonde blu” is a mirror of the aesthetics of the famous Italian composer: research of the noise brought to an extreme
One of the most spectacular pages written by the Russian composer, characterized by a repetitive stamping bitonal chords combination, which Stravinsky considered the focal point of the entire work. The
Synopsis: In 1943, 48 Japanese Prisoners of War were killed in Featherston, New Zealand, after an incident from cross-cultural confusion and miscommunication. All events surrounding the incident were kept secret
The Messe de Nostre Dame, a polyphonic four voices mass, is one of the greatest masterpieces of medieval music. The Kyrie is built around a famous melody (a –so called- cantus firmus) of the
Bent Sørensen, one of the most frequently performed contemporary Scandinavian composers, has taken the title, ‘Looking on Darkness’, from Shakespeare’s Sonnet No 27. The thematic and intellectually clearly constructed form
The title literally means “Apparition of Franz Schubert between the waves”. It’s a poetical and evocative piece. The accordions create an acoustic landscape from which short distant delicate glimpses of
Interview with Frode Haltli Part I: Introduction to the Scandinavian culture and society Part II: From the contemporary to the traditional music and back Part III: Ellegaard and Nordheim, accordion
Georg Friedrich Händel – Lascia ch’io pianga (aria from “Rinaldo” HWV7b) Georg Friedrich Händel – Ouverture Suite II in D from Water music HWV 349 (for two accordions) Nino Rota
03/08/2014 OUDENAARDE (BEL) 10.30, Sint-Walburgakerk, Oudenaarde Solo and duo with Barbara Ardenois (accordion). Music by Bach, Händel, Zolotarjof, Ravel, Gubaidulina, Hosokawa more: poster
In 2013-14 I’ve been an exchange student on the master level with Frode Haltli at the Norwegian Academy of Music of Oslo. I interviewed him on the theme “New Scandinavian