Maria Kalaniemi is a Finnish accordionist. She was classically trained, gaining her MMus from the Sibelius Academy in 1992, but has become mostly known as a folk musician having played this music from childhood, besides her classical music studies, and also at the folk music department of the Sibelius Academy.
Anthony Galla-Rini was a celebrated American accordionist, arranger, composer, conductor, author, and teacher, and is considered by many to be the first American accordionist to promote the accordion as a "legitimate" concert instrument.
Carmen Carrozza was one of America's premier concert accordionists, before he retired from performing after suffering a stroke. He was born in the village of Solano in Reggio di Calabria, Calabria, Italy, in 1921 and emigrated to the United States of America with his family at age 9, settling with them in Chappaqua, New York. He played piano and violin, but soon became enamored with the accordion's flexibility, how it could fit perfectly into an orchestra or sound like an orchestra itself.
Elvidin Krilić, is a Bosnian musician, accordionist, composer and educator. He was born in Sarajevo to a family that cherished Bosnian traditional folk music. As a young boy, he received his first musical inspiration from his father Mustafa Krilić, a well-known accordionist who worked with the major traditional vocalists of the ex-Yugoslav music scene from World War II on.
Frank L. Marocco was an American piano-accordionist, arranger and composer. He was recognized as one of the most recorded accordionists in the world.
Martin Lohse is a Danish classical composer and visual artist.
Mogens Ellegaard was an accordion player from Denmark. He is regarded as the "father of the classical accordion."
The accordion is in a wide variety of musical genres, mainly in traditional and popular music. In some regions, such as Europe and North America, it has become mainly restricted to traditional, folk and ethnic music. In other regions such as Mexico, the instrument is very popular in genres like Norteño, and in Brazil, it is a fixture in popular music styles as Sertanejo and Forró.
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1969.
Who's the Boss in the Factory? is the third studio album by Swedish symphonic rock band Karmakanic. It was released through Inside Out Music on 18 November 2008.
Gheorghe Ene, known as Ionică Minune, is a Romani-Romanian accordionist.
Niklas Sivelov is a Swedish concert pianist, composer and teacher.
Bjarke Pauli Mogensen is a Danish accordionist. He began learning the accordion at age 7.
Joseph Francis Petric is a Canadian concert accordionist, historian, author, and pedagogue.
An accordion concerto is a solo concerto for solo accordion and symphony orchestra or chamber orchestra.
Dalia Faitelson is a Denmark-based Israeli composer, vocalist, guitarist, and DJ DaFa.
Alexander Sevastian, "Sasha", was a well-known virtuoso Russian-Canadian accordionist.
Srdjan Vukašinović is a classical and folk accordionist of Serbian-Swiss origin. He was born in Petrovac, Serbia into a musical family. At the age of 16 in 1999, he won first prize for accordion players at the World Trophy Competition in Spain. He has been noted by the classical music community as one of the best accordion players in the world.
Jack Alexander Emblow is a British jazz accordionist who is best known for his musical work accompanying the Cliff Adams Singers on BBC Radio.
