UKAAT (United Kingdom Association of Accordion Teachers) are proud to announce their first workshop for accordion teachers. After an initial meeting over 2 years ago of 40 teachers from all over the UK those present were surveyed and asked what they would most like to explore as part of their own professional development as accordion teachers. This first workshop will try to cover a number of the most voted-for subjects in an all-day event at The Royal Academy of Music, London.

Corrado Rojac and Illaria Nardi have written a book on the music of Giuseppe Greggiati, a clergyman and musician who wrote not only original pieces for the accordion from 1839 onwards but also a “method” outlining how the instrument should be played.

The 20th November 2015 at Guildford Accordion Club at Ripley Village Hall will feature guest accordionist Romano Viazzani. He will play a range of accordion music from Classical to Jazz and lots between.

A Christmas Cabaret. After their successful autumn trip to New York’s 54 Below and Birdland Joanna Starnd and Jacqui Tate return to The Pheasantry, King’s Road, Chelsea, London on the 20th December 2015 (Doors at 18.30). Romano Viazzani on Accordion, , John Bailey on Piano, Jason Reeveon Drums and Nick Pini on Bass.

David Vaughan Quintet, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist David Vaughan adds Tom Hewins on double bass and tuba, and Jason Reeve on drums into the mix with Romano Viazzani on Accordion and Daniel Broncano on Clarinets at the OSO Arts Centre Barnes, London on the 6th November 2015.

Fine Arts Quartet with Friedrich Lips on accordion – King’s Place, London, 22nd November 2015. An opportunity to hear the famous Fine Arts String Quartet, one of America’s best loved quartets, in mid-period Haydn and Schubert’s great ‘Death & the Maiden’ quartet from the 1820s. In between, the accordion virtuoso Friedrich Lips joins the quartet to perform a quintet by Russian composer Efrem Podgaits, written in 2002.

Maidstone Music Festival is an adjudicative music festival, open to amateur performers of all ages and levels of ability.
29th November, 2015

Toral Tollefsen, World Artist is a new publication we now have in stock featuring one of the first truly global accordionists of the concert platform. The book tracks the life of this pioneer of the concert accordion through interviews and articles contributed by the editor Jon Faukstad, Mogens Ellegaard, Ola Kai Ledang and others.