Stefan Hussong (born 2 November 1962) is a German classical accordionist.
He has received numerous awards for his performances, including the Gaudeamus International Competition for Performers for contemporary classical music, and was named best instrumentalist of the year by ECHO Klassik.
Born in Köllerbach , Püttlingen, Hussong studied with Eugen Tschanun, Hugo Noth, Joseph Macerollo and Mayumi Miyata at the Trossingen University of Music, Toronto and Tokyo Conservatories (Geijutsu Daigaku). In 1983, he won first prize in the Hugo Herrmann Competition. [1] [2] [3]
His work as a soloist is shared with many orchestras, such as the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Harmonia Chamber Orchestra, the Klangforum Wien and the Ensemble Modern. He has joined musicians such as violinist Irvine Arditti and cellists Julius Berger and Miklós Perényi. [4] [5]
He is a teacher of accordion and chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg. [1] [6]
Hussong's repertoire ranges from Baroque music to contemporary music, where he collaborates with the composers Sofia Gubaidulina, Toshio Hosokawa, Adriana Hölszky and Klaus Huber. [4]
Hussong points out that the accordion, which had been a little-used instrument in academic music, has become a fascinating instrument because of the technical possibilities it possesses: "a wind instrument with a keyboard, with a wide dynamic and tonal spectrum". [7]
Accordions are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type. The essential characteristic of the accordion is to combine in one instrument a melody section, also called the diskant, usually on the right-hand manual, with an accompaniment or Basso continuo functionality on the left-hand. The musician normally plays the melody on buttons or keys on the right-hand side, and the accompaniment on bass or pre-set chord buttons on the left-hand side. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist.
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