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Claudio Jacomucci – Accordion master class at the Royal Academy of Music – 29th January 2018
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Claudio Jacomucci Master class with Royal Academy of Music accordion students
Monday 29th January from 10.00 am – 1.00 pm
The Royal Academy of Music
Marylebone Road, London NW1 5HT
www.ram.ac.uk
T: 020 7873 7380
This event would be of particular interest to accordion teachers and students because it enables them to observe the RAM students being taught by internationally-respected accordion teachers. The RAM would welcome any interested audience. The event is free and doesn’t require tickets.
Claudio Jacomucci is a leading light on the International accordion scene in a very understated way. He is not one that you will hear blowing his own trumpet about his achievements but gets on with the job of teaching brilliantly and performing at the highest level whilst devoting his time to recordings that have become a benchmark for other accordionists to measure up to and publications that are of great benefit to the accordion world. Working with accordion students he has a very hands on approach and demonstrates ideas with his accordion on. He is fascinating to watch.
He graduated with honors as a classical accordionist from Grenoble Conservatory (France) in 1992. He has studied accordion with Jean Luc Manca, Mogens Ellegaard and Vladimir Zubitsky. He also graduated as an Alexander Technique teacher from the Alexander Technique Centre in Amsterdam in 2000 and has written a book called Mastering Accordion Technique applies his knowledge to accordion playing.
He studied Indian Music (karnatic) at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. Winner of international contests such as Grand Prix International d’Accordéon in St. Etienne (1988), Trofeo Mundial de acordeón (C.M.A.) in Cuenca (1990), Premio Città di Castelfidardo (1990) and Arrasate Hiria (1994).
He has premiered a number of new works collaborating with composers such as Luciano Berio, Franco Donatoni, György Kurtag, Luis De Pablo, Boris Porena, Nicola Sani, Mario Pagliarani, Lucio Garau, Gabriele Manca, Dimitri Nicolau, Miguel Ruiz Gil, Fernando Mencherini, Giorgio Tedde, Carlo Crivelli, Akemi Naito, Francoise Barriere, Maxim Seloujanov, Oliver Schneller, Paolo Marzocchi, Riccardo Vaglini, Daniel Glaus, Rico Gubler (who often dedicated their work to him) and as a composer himself.
He has performed in Europe, USA, China, Mexico, Russia in many festivals and institution such as Cornell University (USA), Berlin Philharmonic, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Salle Messiaen in Paris, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Gaudeamus Foundation in Amsterdam, Synthese Festival in Bourges (France), Nuova Consonanza in Rome, GoG/Teatro Carlo Feilce in Genova, Sala Chavez – Unam in Mexico City, Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Beethoven Haus in Bonn (Germany) to name a few.
He runs an intense pedagogic project developing and promoting an original approach in teaching based on the principles of the Alexander Technique, He is the founder and teacher of the Italian Accordion Academy in Urbino/Amsterdam and he holds masterclasses all over the world: Paris Conservatory of Music, Royal Academy of Music of London, Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Danish Royal Academy of Music of Copenhagen, Chopin University Warsaw, Conservatory of Barcelona, Yoliztli Academy in Mexico, Tianjin’s Conservatory (China), “S.Cecilia” Conservatory in Rome, Conservatory of Enschede, Tilburg and Arnhem (Netherlands). He has taught accordion at the “Luisa D’Annunzio” Conservatory in Pescara (Italy) from 2011 to 2014.
He has also played with Francesco Dillon, Joel Rubin, Stefano Scodanibbio, Prometeo String Quartet, Michel Godard, David Moss, Terry Riley, Kálmán Balogh, Pierre Favre, AlterEgo and as a soloist with the Orchestra of “La Scala” Milan, Haydn Orchestra Bolzano, Filarmonica Marchigiana, Sinfonietta del Teatro Lirico Cagliari (Italy), Ostrobothnian Chamber Trio (Finland), Romanian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Since 2002 he has worked with Kathleen Delaney (choreographer and dancer) exploring the frontiers of dance and music creation in its diverse aspects: live interactions, electroacoustic music and video-dance.
His CDs are published by Schott Wergo, W & B Music, Bridge Records, Stradivarius, Rivoalto, StileLibero, Musica & Poesia, Ema Records, Adatto, Blowout Records. His performances were broadcasted by Radio3 RAI, ORF, DeutschlandRadio, RNE2, Vatican Radio, SFB, RSI, Radio Unam-Mexico, RadioFrance.
He is regularly invited as a jury member by international accordion competition in Castelfidardo, Klingenthal, Arrasate, Moscow, Pula and Valtidone. His book Technique I for button accordion about the modern accordion technique is published by Bèrben.
He has edited the publication Modern Accordion Perspectives (2013) and Critical Selection of Accordion Works, 1990-2010 (2014), coordinating an international expert panel of the leading classical accordion performers and teachers.
Claudio Jacomucci
