Joseph Natoli in Concert at SFAC

July 1st 2021
Rita Davidson Barnea, Editor Accordion USA News
Joseph Natoli

The San Francisco Accordion Club presents Joseph Natoli online in concert on July 18, 2021.
Joseph Natoli makes his home in Northeast Ohio with his wife, JoAnn, and has been a performer and advocate of the accordion since the age of seven.

Joe started his studies with prominent Ohio accordion teacher, the late Mickey Bisilia and won the 1972 AAA US Virtuoso Accordion Championship under Mr. Bisilia’s tutelage, while placing first runner-up several months later in the Coupe Mondiale world accordion competition in Caracas, Venezuela. More recently, Joe won the grand prize for the first Roland US V-Accordion competition held in Los Angeles, California, in 2008.

Joe’s education includes Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the University of Toronto Faculty Of Music in Toronto, Canada, where he was the first student accepted there to use the free bass accordion as an applied major instrument. Mr Natoli started his musical career mostly as a performer, but had always been interested in composition, and has focused on his compositional craft even more in recent years. Joe has written many original pieces in all musical styles and genres for standard and free bass accordion.

Some of Joe’s most recent recordings include an all-acoustic accordion CD called Omaggio, and an all-digital Roland V-Accordion CD entitled Waltz for Ron. In 2018, a new CD was released entitled Chameleon (Vol 1) which focuses on the widely diverse styles of Joe’s original compositional output. Soon to follow were Chameleon (Vol 2) in 2019 and Chameleon (Vol 3) in 2020.

Joe’s compositions and recordings are published by Janpress

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