Cory Pesaturo will be a featured guest artist and presenter at the 2016 AAA Festival to be held in Buffalo, New York from July 6-10, 2016.
His workshop is “Authenticity of Styles”:
Cory will take a simple tune known by all, and work it through the mechanics of various genres to show the intricacies of each, and demonstrate how the same song can sound completely differently in many aspects including ornamentation, feel, tempo, groove, improvisation type, scales, chord changes and substitutions, and more.
See what it means to truly play Klezmer to jazz to Irish and many more styles as opposed to just playing a written arrangement in a specific genre. Improvisation and using Music Theory to Improvise
Cory will go over what tools one must have to improvise, and how to use them correctly. He will go over basic chord changes in multiple songs, and show you how so many songs in so many genres have ties, giving one confidence in their speed of learning, and learning to improvise and embellish a song.
Cory Pesaturo is a multiple World Accordion Champion, with wins in both Acoustic and Digital Accordion, as well as Jazz. Pesaturo has performed in 5 different continents, and specializes in a wide variety of styles.
He was accepted on the accordion at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where he studied Contemporary Improvisation. He became the only person to ever major in and graduate as an accordionist there. Pesaturo has performed 4 times at the White House, and has played at 7 other public events and private functions for President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. In 1999 he performed at a State Dinner held for the President of Hungary and became one of the youngest ever performers in White House history.
Pesaturo has also performed with different symphony orchestras around the country, including his first in 2003 after a Concerto Competition win. In 2008, Roland named Cory as part of their team of four American accordionists to promote the V-Accordion.
His music has been played for various motorsports broadcasts on SPEED, FOX and NBC Sports since 2007, and has also combined his interest in statistics and sports with his appearance on the “100 Year Anniversary of Fenway Park” album in 2012. He also has an ongoing relationship with the RedBull Formula 1 team, and with the Boston Red Sox. Concerning the World Championships, all of them were won on instruments Pesaturo picked up at the competition, and all were complete with improvisation; almost unheard of at international competition.
For further information on the AAA Festival: www.ameraccord.com
For further information on Cory Pesaturo:
cory.pesaturo@gmail.com
