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70th Coupe Mondiale - Round I - Test Round Section

The candidate must perform the 2016 Test Round consisting of the following three (3) pieces:

  • Any Baroque work.
  • Own Choice Program: The candidate must select a program consisting of two (2) pieces, one piece to be of a slower, lyrical style and the other piece to be of a technical virtuosic style.  At least one (1) of these Own Choice pieces must be an original work for accordion.
  • A Single movement from a cyclic works is acceptable, however a maximum of only one movement from any cyclic work will be accepted. Playing time for Round I: maximum 20 minutes.

70th Coupe Mondiale Jury
Jörgen Sundeqvist, Kazys Stonkus, Herbert Scheibenreif, Jacques Mornet,
Viatcheslav Semionov (President of the Jury), Corrado Rojac,
Milijan Bjeletic, Andreas Nebl, Grayson Masefield

Michele Bianco
Eduards Rutkovskis
Nikita Syrchin
Xuchen Zhao
Siyuan Jia
Agne Daucianskaite
Nikolai Istomin
Danijel Piller
Alexey Murza
Zhiyuan Zhang
Alberto Vernarelli
Qi Ma
Yury Solaev
Vladimir Stupnikov
Fernando Gabriele Mangifesta
Junior Coupe Mondiale - Round I
  • Any Baroque work. (Repeats in Baroque compositions are not required.)
  • Own Choice Program: The candidate must select a program consisting of two (2) pieces, one piece to be of a slower, lyrical style and the other piece to be of a technical virtuosic style.  At least one (1) of these Own Choice pieces must be an original work for accordion.
  • A minimum of two (2) different Composers
  • Single movements from cyclic works are acceptable, however a maximum of one movement of any cyclic work shall be selected. Playing time for Round I: maximum of 15 minutes.
    Round I music must be played in one sitting and may be played in any order.
Members of the International Juryy:
Giorgio Dellarole, Georg Hettmann, Zorica Karakutovska, Ruedi Marty,
Heather Masefield, Juri Shiskin, Aivi Tilk, Mary Tokarski and Raimo Vertainen

 
Some of the Contestants in the Junior Coupe Mondiale:
Robert Alevetdinov
Jingyang Wang
Pavel Riabkov
Petar Kochovski
Victor Sukhorebrik
Jaakko Jukonen
Leonid Muravjov
Aleksa Cvetanovic
Stepan Armasar
Veljko Milojkovic
Chuqi Gao
Anastasija Zubova
Xiangy Jiang
Mikko Makkonen
Sergio Gladkyy
Sergei Aleinikov
Ilia Shevchenko
Evening Gala Concert

CIA President Raymond Bodell presenting Wolfram Marzendorer
with the Honored of the Accordion

CIA President Raymond Boddell presenting Zorica Karakutovska with the
CIA Merit Award for her outstanding contributions to the International accordion movement.
Team Macedonia gathered to celebrate the International recogintion of Zorica Karakutovska
upon receiving the CIA Merit Award. Pictured are: Filip Stamevski, Ivana Ramadanova, Bete Ilin,
Zorica Karakutovska, Ognen Janeski and Anica Karakutovska
above and below: Simone Zanchini and friends
above and below: Simone Zanchini

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