CIA President Mirco Patarini will perform in concert at the 2022 ATG Festival in Lisle, Illinois on Thursday, July 21, 2022 at 7:30 PM. On Friday, July 22, 2022 at 9:30 AM Mirco will present a workshop, “The Future of the Accordion World.”

Mirco Patarini, from Spoleto (Italy), began studying music in 1978 at the CDMI (Centro Didattico Musicale Italiano) in Spoleto. In the same year he began to participate in various national competitions, ranking in the first places. In 1981 he ranked first in the Italian Pre-Championship of Castelfidardo, obtaining the right to access the 31st CMA Accordion World Trophy, where he was the youngest participant.  Between 1983 and 1985 he won the Italian Pre-Championship three times, so that he could participate in International competitions in Caracas (Venezuela), Caldas de Rahina (Portugal), and La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland), where he obtained the 1st prize. His concert activity ranges from classical repertoire to modern music; from acoustic to electronic and MIDI accordion; from solo performance to concerts for accordion and Symphony Orchestra, in 69 countries around the world. 

His career boasts many important collaborations with famous artists such as Luciano Pavarotti and Nicola Piovani in the most prestigious theaters in the world. He was the General Music Manager in the Bontempi-Farfisa Group for many years, actively participating in the design, marketing and distribution of Bontempi Musical toys, Farfisa amateur, professional keyboards and synthesizers; and Furnstein, Furstenberg, Hermann and Anelli acoustic pianos. He is the President of “Scandalli Accordions” company, one of the historical and very prestigious accordion factories. In January 2006 he founded, together with Gianluca Bibiani, the publishing company “Ars Spoletium”, of which he is President. In September 2007 they aquired the historic music magazine “Strumenti e Musica” (founded in 1948 by Bio Boccosi)  restarting its publication and transforming into an International bilingual publication.

Since 2007 he has been the Artistic Director of the IAC (Italian Accordion Culture) association, Italian Premier Voting Member of the CIA. For numerous years he has been the Italian juror for the CIACoupe Mondiale. Since 2008 he has been the founder and Artistic Director of the Instruments & Music Festival of Spoleto and in 2011 he was the Artistic Director and organizer of the CIACoupe Mondiale in Spoleto. In 2014 he was elected President of the Music Committee of the Confédération Internationale des Accordéonistes IMC-UNESCO and in 2017, he was elected as the organization’s overall President, being re-elected in 2021 to serve a second term. In 2017 he was the Artistic Director and organizer of the CIACoupe Mondiale in Osimo (Italy) and since 2018 he serves as Guest Professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.