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Video 1: “Accordion Fanfare” composed by Joseph Natoli. Joseph Natoli is playing all 5 digital accordion orchestra parts and the percussion on this recording.

Video 2: “Here’s That Rainy Day” arranged by Joseph Natoli

ATAM President Frankie Coelho, is happy to announce that the ATAM (Accordion Teachers Association of Massachusetts) will honor Joseph Natoli from Ohio, “Internationally Famous Accordionist”, Concert Artist, Educator, and Adjudicator. The award as “Honorary ATAM Lifetime Member” will be presented at the Saturday evening annual Awards Banquet on April 1, 2023 at the Boston Newton Marriott in Newton, Massachusetts . ATAM President Frankie Coelho shares, “This is a well-deserved honor!”

Joe Natoli is certainly deserving of being honored by his musical peers. He has devoted his life to the promotion of the accordion. Since a young age, Joe has been involved in composition, performance, and promotion of the accordion.

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 of Youngstown, Ohio. Joe later attended and achieved Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the University of Toronto Faculty of Music where he also studied free bass accordion as his applied major instrument with renowned Canadian virtuoso, Joseph Macerollo.

Joe is the co-founder and director of GR8 IDEAS, an organization dedicated to the dissemination of knowledge of digital accordions and digital peripherals via its GR8 IDEAS web page as well as its accompanying GR8 IDEAS Facebook page,

Joe has released 6 CDs, including “Omaggio”, “Waltz For Ron”, “Merry Christmas”, and “Chameleon” Vols 1 & 2, and 3. The “Chameleon” series CDs are 70-75 minutes each of completely original compositions in every imaginable genre including Classical, light Classical, Latin jazz, jazz ballads, contemporary, orchestral, cinematic, tango, and more (including his latest compositions including accordion orchestra pieces like “Accordion Fanfare”, “Smooth”, “A New Beginning” and “Nine Children’s Pieces”, plus solo pieces like “Nostalgic Suite”, “Homage” & “Offspring to the Bumblebee”, “Fantasy On a Well-Known Melody”, “Fragments”, and “We’ll Dance Again”, along with many others.

Joe writes for both acoustic and digital accordions, but he uses his orchestrational knowledge to exploit all the best coloristic possibilities on digital accordion.

For any information about IDEAS and/or his publishing company JANPress Music, you are invited to send any requests to josephnatoli@ymail.com or to janpressmusic@yahoo.com.