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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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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‘Seigla’ is an Icelandic word indicating perseverance, resilience, tenacity. It’s also the title of a festival created, curated and directed by pianist Erna Vala Arnardóttir, that for the last 6 years has taken place in Reykjavík’s flagship concert hall, Harpa. More than most festivals i attend, the aspect of curation …
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It seems entirely appropriate that my relationship with ITERAE. the latest album from collaborators Joseph Branciforte and Jozef Dumoulin, is one that i’ve circled around and repeated numerous times. My first contact resulted in quizzical curiosity, with subsequent listens proving ever more beguiling. Furthermore, ITERAE provides both a complete 8-track …
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