Gordon Kohl
Voicing – Acoustic and Electronic
A study of various sounds and voicing. How to select correct ranges and octaves so the reeds and the electronic voices complement each other as well as your musical passages.
Roberta Cantow
Accordions Rising
Come meet filmmaker Roberta Cantow and learn more about Accordions Rising.
Mike Zampiceni
Blues, Bebop, and Beyond
Learn some basics of improvisation, beginning with "blue notes," the foundation of jazz. Enhance your playing with simple techniques to embellish melodies and alternative harmonic progressions that can substitute for vanilla standard progressions.
Gina Brannelli
Prepare to Play in Public
Taking to the stage, (etiquette, repertoire, dress, presentation).
Mario Pedone
Learning Embellishments
Mario will show various types and ways you can embellish your music and how to sound like a pro!
Liz Finch
Music Notation I: A Review of Fundamentals of Music
A review of symbols, signs, foreign expressions, articulations – how they are notated correctly and how they are played.
Kim and Dan Christian
Duet Workshop
Lifetime duet partners Dan & Kim Christian will take you through all the techniques of playing together in harmony. All the combinations of style and versatility that can be played with two accordions!
Mary Tokarski
Musician . . . or Magician?
An interesting look into what we do as musicians, and how it turns experiences and events into magical times.
Music Notation II: A look at the expansion of fundamental music notation into the 21st century
An examination of newer devices used with modern music – how they are notated and how they are played.
Today's Lunch concert features Gail Campanella and Pete Barbutti!
Master Class
Joey Miskulin
Joan Sommers
Accordion Orchestra Rehearsal
Meet in Ballroom!
Doors open at 6:30 PM
Dinner begins at 7:00 PM
Tonight's concert features Alex Sevastian, and the Las Vegas International Accordion Orchestra conducted by Joan Cochran Sommers, and will begin at approximately 8:00 PM.
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