CIA - Accordions Worldwide
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25<br />
News from New Zealand…<br />
New Zealand Accordion Association (NZAA)<br />
New Zealand’s<br />
Shining Star: 2009<br />
was a fairytale year of<br />
success for New<br />
Zealander Grayson<br />
Masefield. Winning a<br />
diverse array of<br />
International titles, he<br />
took First Prizes in the<br />
2009 62 nd <strong>CIA</strong> Coupe<br />
Mondiale in front of his<br />
home town audience,<br />
the <strong>CIA</strong> International<br />
Competition for<br />
Virtuoso Entertainment<br />
Music, the 5 th Primus<br />
Ikaalinen International<br />
Live Broadcast TV<br />
Competition in Finland<br />
and most recently the<br />
3 rd Roland Intl. Digital<br />
Accordion Competition in Rome (pictured above).<br />
NZAA Commissions New Work: The NZAA<br />
successfully commissioned the new work for Accordion<br />
Orchestra by Gary Daverne titled Auckland March.<br />
The new work to commemorate the 2009 Coupe<br />
Mondiale World Accordion Championships and<br />
Festival and given its World Premiere Performance by<br />
the World Accordion Orchestra III at the festival, under<br />
the direction of the composer Gary Daverne.<br />
Pictured right are NZAA Award Recipients:<br />
1. Faithe Deffner (USA) - NZAA Lifetime Achievement Award<br />
2. Kevin Friedrich (New Zealand) - NZAA Merit Award<br />
3. John Statham (New Zealand) - NZAA Lifetime Member<br />
4. Marie Jones (New Zealand) - NZAA Lifetime Member<br />
New Zealand Accordion Association (NZAA)<br />
4 O'Neills Avenue, Takapuna, AUCKLAND 0620, NEW ZEALAND<br />
Telephone: +64 9-489 8316 Fax: +64 9-486 3012 E-mail: nzaasecretary@yahoo.com<br />
Front: Harley Jones (Vice President), Heather Masefield (Secretary), John Statham (President & <strong>CIA</strong> Honorary Vice<br />
President 2009), Carol Yan (Treasurer), Megan Jennings. Back: Amber Masefield, Annemarie Panzic (NZAA Competitions<br />
Secretary), Jenna Murray, Alison Worthington, Danielle Beston, Sonja Palinich, Absent: Campbell Bettridge.<br />
NZAA Annual<br />
Competitions: The 2009<br />
New Zealand National and<br />
South Pacific International<br />
Championships and Festival<br />
held over Queen’s Birthday<br />
Weekend at the Raye<br />
Freedman Performing Arts<br />
Centre, were once again<br />
extremely successful.<br />
Pictured right is the new<br />
2009 New Zealand Solo Championship Jessica Chen<br />
(right), and her teacher Stephanie Poole, the teacher<br />
of Accordion at the Conservatory of Music at<br />
Auckland University.<br />
NZAA Awards: The NZAA made several awards in<br />
2009 to those in the accordion world that they wanted<br />
to recognize in appreciation for their work on behalf<br />
of the accordion. The honorees are pictured below:<br />
1. 2.<br />
3. 4.
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