Daily reports by Kevin Friedrich (CIA Ambassador) - Pictures and videos will continue to be added as they become available, please check back!
Pictures provided by Kevin Friedrich, Harley Jones, Xu Tiansi, Li Cong, Jérôme Bauer, Carol Yan, Graham Laurie and Rita Davidson
国际手风琴联盟大使Kevin Friedrich进行每日活动报道——以上链接将在活动信息上网发布后被激活
Members of the CIA Music Committee have been continually evaluating the program requirements of the various Coupe Mondiale categories, and in recent years have established a new format which provides them the opportunity to promote many new original works for the accordion.

Instead of requiring candidates to perform a Test Piece in the Coupe Mondiale, the CIA offers a Special Recognition Award for Best New Original Solo Work, composed in 2010/2011, presented at the Coupe Mondiale for the first time.

This year four new compositions were presented to be considered for the Best New Original Work Award, with the Tango-Toccata by Finnish composer Petri Makkonen being selected as the winner.

Petri Makkonen (right) was born in 1967 and he studied classical accordion at the Sebelius Academy in Helsinki and has since composed a broad range of teaching materials for young accordionists including Space Music, Dance of Four Masters, Songs for Accordion etc...

Petri is renownded for his many concert level works including Disco-Toccata, 1997 CIA Test Piece "The Flight Beyond the Time", Disco-Tango and now this new work Tango-Toaccata. He currently teaches accordion at the Conservatory in Kuopio.
 

 

 

 

 

 
The compositions presented for consideration for the Best New Original Work were as follows:

 

Wojciech Blecharz: Hypopnea (7.00)
performed by Maciej Frackiewicz

Xu Xiaonan: Humoresque (1.30)
performed by: Xu Xiaonan

Tango-Toccata (6:00) composed by Petri Makkonen (Finland)
performed by Pavel Zyabko (Russia)

Liu Wubin: The Temple Bell Of Dazhao (6.00)
performed by Bi Dan

Jury: Graham Laurie (United Kingdom), Frederic Deschamps (France), Alexander Selivanov (Russia)
Antonio Spaccarotella (Italy), Kimmo Mattila (Finland) and Grayson Masefield (New Zealand).
Tango-Toccata composed by Petri Makkonen (Finland) (6:00)
being performed by Pavel Zyabko (Russia)

Copyright© 2011 Accordions Worldwide. All rights reserved.