Joe Natoli shares this in relation to the 2019 IDEAS Symposium 2.0 newly posted for this year’s schedule: 2019IdeasSchedule.pdf
“TA-DA!!! The 2019 Symposium Schedule has arrived. Applause! (especially for Michael Soloway). Last year it kept evolving up to the last week, and some final tweaks may yet still occur until the last week this year too. here it is in very complete form ready for all attendees to use and absorb. This is going to be an amazing year. if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Michael Soloway or myself (Joseph Natoli) at “thegr8.ideas@gmail.com”.
Those of you who have received questionnaires from Michael, now that you have the schedule in your hands, please try to return those questionnaires as soon as you can. If you haven’t received them yet, please expect them in the next 7-10 days.”
2019 IDEAS Symposium Schedule:
Michael Soloway commenting on this year’s International Digital Electronic Accordion Symposium (IDEAS):
“Man, what a schedule this year! We learned so much last year and made many changes based upon our experience and all the experience that was shared with us. Looking it over, we can safely say with confidence that there is nothing like this anywhere else in the world for digital accordionists.”
Richard Noel will be back with a 4-part track of his own for those who love his sounds and programs and want to get up close and personal with the man who created them. Richard will also be participating with Alex Chudolij and I in creating and delivering the ultimate experience in the Technology Tracks.
We also now have a Technology department with three levels of training courses – Tech I, Tech II and Tech III – entirely divided up by instrument as well this year. The Technology department will now have full and complete “spin-offs” into Tracks of their own so that the Tech Level Tracks can be dedicated and purer this year.
One spin-off is Michael’s “Using the Set Editor and Creating Your Perfect Accordion” with two Track sessions all of its own. Another one is “MIDI For The Roland” with Greg Volovic and yet another very serious spin-off track is three sessions on the BK-7M module with none other than Markus Baggio himself along with Greg Volovic! It will be followed by an extra session not part of the Track about Advanced Peripheral Use.
Digital Recording this year will go all the way into green screen video recording and production. There are two very complete and exciting tracks on Forscore and MobileSheets headed by Markus Baggio and Kenn Baert designed so that a newbie can go home fully versed and functional in one of their choices and users can use it to move up to their next level of experience.
In the Technology department we are working very hard to have a very intense and intimate student/teacher ratio so each session will have clinicians available for on-the-spot assistance and participation. Imagine names like Joe Natoli and Kenn Baert being 8x clinicians and at your service for help in Tech Level I and II this year! Bob Donovan will be running Tech Level I with the personal presence of all of these clinicians as well for the 8x and Alex Chudolij and Michael Soloway for the 4x with help from Lennie Feldmann, with Bob will be involved across the Technology spectrum.
Open sessions of 2-3 hours led by Matthias Matzke on music and programming and playing as only he can.
And a very large track of three deep sessions called the Musical World of Eddie Monteiro with none other than the man himself. Also Lenny Feldmann will be speaking about Frank Marocco in the Digital World with Sam Falcetti repeating his successful programs on bass technique and song playing. Chris Theis, 2 time Grammy winner, producer and sound engineer, is developing his 3 session Track even further this year on Accordion Sound Engineering.
And those are just the daytime activities! Three morning concerts, two even concert spectaulars, participative duets with student/faculty and much much more. You can choose from this densely pack schedule according to your needs and goals. Also, don’t forget that the amazing Cory Pesaturo is giving one on one master classes throughout the Symposium! To quote the great Tony Lovello: “Here it comes! Don’t miss it!”
For further information: thegr8.ideas@gmail.com
