Over the years, the performances i’ve attended that have felt most meaningful, most urgent, are not well-known, long-established festival behemoths, but small-scale, intimate projects conceived by individuals and often realised against the odds. Thus Concentrated Voices, the project of just one man, Slovak guitarist Ondrej Veselý, who over the last …
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Accordionfest is a week-long, annual festival in Tallinn created by accordionist Momir Novakovic. Born in Serbia, Novakovic has been based in Estonia for many years, teaching accordion at the city’s Academy of Music and Theatre. The festival is designed to educate audiences, composers, aspiring accordionists – everyone really – about …
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There was impressive music to be heard in some of Warsaw Autumn’s less prominent events. The Polish Composers’ Union hosted a small-scale concert in Warsaw’s Hashtag Lab showcasing the three winners of this year’s Zygmunt Mycielski Composition Competition. Performed by Trio/Duo/Unum (who might have made up their name for the …
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Of all the festivals i attend each year, Warsaw Autumn has come to seem the most ambitious, the biggest in terms of scope and diversity, and therefore the most excitingly daunting. As if to prove that point during its opening weekend, almost the entirety of Sunday was filled with two …
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