It is the 21st year of the AAA Seminars! We still have our same loyal participants who have been with us from the very beginning:
Dr Robert Young Mc Mahan, Micki Goodman Schimmel and Paul Stein
– along with Will Holshouser,
Benjamin Ickies, John Foti, Art Bailey, Doug Makofka, Erica Marie Mancini and many others.
Most members or the Brooklyn Accordion Club will be participating – this includes Mayumi Miyaoka, Peter Flint, Denise Koncelik and a performing group called Bachtopus.
In addition to accordionists, we will have a theremin player (Elizabeth Brown), a sho player (Michael Dames), a trombonist, violinist, concert pianist, harpist, guitarist and a few special guests who will appear un-announced.
We will have many world premieres: Dr. Mc Mahan, Dave Soldier, David First, David Stoler, Elizabeth Brown, Normali Fenn, Peter Flint, Milica Paranosic, Gene Pritsker, Dan Cooper, Peter Jarvis, Art Bailey and myself – My new CD: “The Theatre of the Accordion” will be unveiled at this time as well.
Our initial intent of the Seminars starting with the first one back in 1994 was: to build a strong artistic accordion community in the New York Area, a community of artists that could communicate on an equal level to the rest of New York’s diverse artistic community.All of our workshops and performances will bear this in mind.
We also did surveys – in the past and now – asking participants and would be participants what they really felt they needed at the Seminars. The response was almost unanimous: a sense of belonging to something that could prepare them intellectually as well as practically for just about any musical situation in a competitive music would – not just the accordion world. And we maintain that philosophy as our goal to this very day.
The Seminars are not just a series of workshops and concerts. It’s an experience, a total immersion into a weekends where judgements are suspended, competition comes to a halt and the steady flow of ideas can almost make one’s head spin.
We urge to to attend this years Seminars: Chock full O’ Learnin – August 7, 8 and 9th at Tenri Cultural Center in New York City.
You won’t forget it. For further information: www.ameraccord.com
billschimmel@billschimmel.com
