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LEGENDARY ACCORDIONIST RICHARD GALLIANO TO GIVE CONCERT IN YEREVAN
14:21 25/02/2014 Â" CULTURE
The National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia (NCOA) will start its
spring season with a concert with the participation of legendary
French accordionist Richard Galliano on March 5, at 7:00 pm at Aram
Khachaturian Concert Hall (Artistic Director and Principal Conductor:
Vahan Mardirossian), the press service of NCOA reports.
The concert will feature Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Piazzolla's Four
Seasons in Buenos Aires and Galliano's Opale Concerto (for accordion
and chamber string orchestra).
Galliano will perform with the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia
at Mezzo Club in Yerevan on March 4, at 9:30 pm.
Richard Galliano was born on December 12, 1950 in France.
He was drawn to music at an early age, starting with the accordion
at 4, influenced by his father Luciano, an accordionist originally
from Italy, living in Nice.
After a long and intense period of study (he took up lessons on the
trombone, harmony, and counterpoint at the Academy of Music in Nice),
at 14, in a search to expand his ideas on the accordion, he began
listening to jazz and heard records by the trumpet player Clifford
Brown. "I copied all the choruses of Clifford Brown, impressed by his
tone and his drive, his way of phrasing over the thunderous playing
of Max Roach." Fascinated by this new world, Richard was amazed that
the accordion had never been part of this musical adventure. In this
period, Galliano won twice the first prize in the "world accordion cap
competition" which took place in Spain (1966) and France (1967). In
the Spanish competition, the participants' duty work was "Chaconne" by
the Israeli accordionist Yehuda Oppenheimer. Galliano and Oppenheimer
kept up their musical collaboration and personal friendship until
Oppenheimer's death in 2012.
Some later collaborations include George Mraz, Brigitte Fontaine,
Al Foster, Juliette Greco, Charles Aznavour, Ron Carter, Chet Baker,
Enrico Rava, Martial Solal, Miroslav Vitouš, Trilok Gurtu, Jan
Garbarek, Michel Petrucciani, Michel Portal, Eddy Louiss, Biréli
Lagrène, Ivan Paduart, Anouar Brahem, Wynton Marsalis, and Toots
Thielemans. He was a key member of Claude Nougaro's band for several
years as a pianist and accordionist.
Source: Panorama.am
From: A. Papazian
14:21 25/02/2014 Â" CULTURE
The National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia (NCOA) will start its
spring season with a concert with the participation of legendary
French accordionist Richard Galliano on March 5, at 7:00 pm at Aram
Khachaturian Concert Hall (Artistic Director and Principal Conductor:
Vahan Mardirossian), the press service of NCOA reports.
The concert will feature Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Piazzolla's Four
Seasons in Buenos Aires and Galliano's Opale Concerto (for accordion
and chamber string orchestra).
Galliano will perform with the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia
at Mezzo Club in Yerevan on March 4, at 9:30 pm.
Richard Galliano was born on December 12, 1950 in France.
He was drawn to music at an early age, starting with the accordion
at 4, influenced by his father Luciano, an accordionist originally
from Italy, living in Nice.
After a long and intense period of study (he took up lessons on the
trombone, harmony, and counterpoint at the Academy of Music in Nice),
at 14, in a search to expand his ideas on the accordion, he began
listening to jazz and heard records by the trumpet player Clifford
Brown. "I copied all the choruses of Clifford Brown, impressed by his
tone and his drive, his way of phrasing over the thunderous playing
of Max Roach." Fascinated by this new world, Richard was amazed that
the accordion had never been part of this musical adventure. In this
period, Galliano won twice the first prize in the "world accordion cap
competition" which took place in Spain (1966) and France (1967). In
the Spanish competition, the participants' duty work was "Chaconne" by
the Israeli accordionist Yehuda Oppenheimer. Galliano and Oppenheimer
kept up their musical collaboration and personal friendship until
Oppenheimer's death in 2012.
Some later collaborations include George Mraz, Brigitte Fontaine,
Al Foster, Juliette Greco, Charles Aznavour, Ron Carter, Chet Baker,
Enrico Rava, Martial Solal, Miroslav Vitouš, Trilok Gurtu, Jan
Garbarek, Michel Petrucciani, Michel Portal, Eddy Louiss, Biréli
Lagrène, Ivan Paduart, Anouar Brahem, Wynton Marsalis, and Toots
Thielemans. He was a key member of Claude Nougaro's band for several
years as a pianist and accordionist.
Source: Panorama.am
From: A. Papazian