Concert Accordionist, Mary Tokarski will be the featured soloist with the Prince George’s Philharmonic Orchestra at 8:00 PM on February 13, 2010 at the Queen Anne Auditorium at Prince George’s Community College in Largo, Maryland – Charles Ellis, Conducting.

Mary will perform “Aconcagua: Concerto for Bandoneon and Orchestra” by Astor Piazzolla. The work, commissioned for a 1979 radio broadcast, resembles a baroque concerto grosso. The “tango neuvo” Piazzolla championed during his lifetime is hinted throughout, especially in the slow movement. The finale, a rhythmic Presto, contains a breathtaking melody, and progresses to a powerful, emotional closing.

Performing both nationally and internationally as a soloist, with Symphony Orchestra, and in a duo known as “Buttons & Keys”( with Bulgarian pianist Dessie Vaughan), this year Mary has traveled to China to perform with the Mantovani Orchestra, to New Zealand with the Auckland Symphony, and to Arizona, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Texas, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Washington D.C., Tennessee, Minnesota, California and Nevada. As a workshop presenter, Mary is sought-out by numerous associations for presentations on all aspects of music, performance, and Master Classes.

In February of 2011, Mary will appear with the Hamden Symphony Orchestra in Hamden, Connecticut performing Gary Daverne’s “Rhapsody for Accordion and Orchestra”.

For 20 years Mary served as Director of Music Education at Tokarski Music Center in North Haven, Connecticut, where she taught piano and accordion, as well as conducted the choral & ensemble programs, and supervised the pre-school programs. Mary currently teaches piano and accordion at her home in Northford, Connecticut.

She also served for many years as a Music Educator in the North Haven Department of Education’s Early Childhood Development Program at Green Acres Elementary School, is currently 2nd Vice President of the Accordionists and Teachers Guild, International (ATG) as well as on the Board of Directors with both The American Accordionists’ Association (AAA) and the ATG which are the two national member organizations of the Confederation Internationale des Accordeonistes, (IMC-UNESCO).

For information and tickets, call 301-446-3245. For more information on how to book a concert, Mary can be reached at 203-484-5095 or by email at mary.tokarski@comcast.net .