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Interview with Stephen Parker – Alexander Technique

I recently interviewed Stephen Parker, an Alexander Technique teacher. We spoke about this technique and about issues and problems related to our instrument, the accordion. I published the interview on planet-accordion.com.

<<[…] we often want solutions, and we want them to be clear and defined […] if your general state of being is to misuse yourself, and by that we mean to shorten, narrow, tighten, as you go into a movement, then it is quite possible that when you do those exercises you are still shortening and narrowing as you do the exercises […] everything can be viewed as a stimulus and everything basically can be reduced to how we respond to that stimulus […]>>

Introduction to the Alexander Technique – Interview with Stephen Parker.

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Interview with Frode Haltli

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 music for accordion” and we spoke on several issues regarding the Scandinavian culture and identity.

The interview is divided in seven parts: 1) Introduction to the Scandinavian culture and society, 2) From the contemporary to the traditional music and back, 3) Ellegaard and Nordheim, accordion meets Norway, 4) A personal experience, New Scandinavian music for accordion, 5) Maja S.K. Ratkje – Gagaku Variations, Ich bin ein Japaner!, 6) Bent Sørensen – Looking on Darkness, researching a new sound, 7) Atli Ingólfsson – Radioflakes, new virtuosism

We went in details as playing techniques in pieces by Sørensen and Ingólfsson, but we also spoke about the Scandinavian identity and how this is reflected in music from Scandinavia. I hope that the interview can be a resource for musicians who are studying any of these works, and for those interested in learning more about Scandinavian music in general.

List of topics

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 meets Norway
Part IV: A personal experience, New Scandinavian music for accordion
Part V: Maja S. K. Ratkje – ‘Gagaku Variations’, Ich bin ein Japaner!
Part VI: Bent Sørensen – ‘Looking on Darkness’, researching a new sound
Part VII: Atli Ingolfsson – ‘Radioflakes’, new virtuosism

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Concert

19/03/2014, OSLO (NOR)

Intuitive people

21:30, Josephine Vertshus, Oslo

Intuitive People makes the next move. This time at Josephine’s Vertshus Intuitive People will present new composed works on the theme “words and literature”.

read more; poster; listen

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Concert/Intuitive People

01/11/2013, OSLO (NOR)

Intuitive people

19:00 Norges musikkhøgskole, Levinsalen

Based on John Cage’s chance concept from 1967, Intuitive People ( tomorrow’s renewers of music) will present their fresh interpretation. It is a Gesamtkunstwerk where the artists make individual unchangable programs of performances, based on chance operations, that will surprise both them and the audience WITHOUT flexible interaction.

read more; on pinvents.com

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Collective concert

01/06/2013, URBANIA (ITA)

Italian Accordion Academy, Il fiore delle mille e una nota 2

21:00 Barco Ducale, Urbania

Music by Ravel, Stravinsky, Louie, Bach, Jacomucci, Ligeti, Kurtag, de Machaut, Baranek, Pärt, Jokinen, Gershwin, Albright

 

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Collective concert

19/05/2013, SANTERAMO IN COLLE (ITA)

20:30 Palazzo marchesale; Santeramo in Colle (Bari)

2° festival internazionale della fisarmonica, città di Santeramo in Colle. I will play Bach’s fugue BWV 535, Apparizione di Franz Schubert by Mario Pagliarani (accordion duo with Barbara Ardenois), Ravel’s Pavane pour une infante defunte (duo with B.A.)

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