CIA - Accordions Worldwide

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Methodical Center of Prof. Marta Szokeová for Accordion (MCA)
News from Slovakia…
President and Artistic Director: Tibor Rácz, prof., M.A.
Vice President: Janka Halaèová, M.A.
Foreign Relationship Secretary: Daniela Sliacka, Ph. D
Teaching Operations: Mária Janková
Media Propaganda: Peter Celec, M.A.
Special Area Officer: Lubomír Zovic, M.A.
Basic Area Officer: Marta Hraková, M.A. & Andrea Vargová
Treasurer: Jan Tokár
Honorable Members of Committee:
Bogdan Dowlasz, Prof. – Poland, Antonín Dvorák, Prof. – Czech Republic, Julianna Horváth, M.A – Hungary
Joachim Pichura, Prof. – Poland, Michaela Rieger, Mag, Nikolaj Sevrjukov, Prof. - Belarus.
The Methodical Center of
Professor Marta Szokeova
for Accordion (MCA): The
MCA originated from the
initiative of Prof. M. A. Tibor
Rácz (left) under the State
Slovakian Conservatory
Foundation in 1991 as The
Center for Intl. Coordination of
Art Education - the branch of
Accordion and The Educational
and Post Graduate Center of The Methodical Center
of the Capital, Bratislava. Its main task is to collect
and spread the most progressive knowledge of the
artistic pedagogy area and to promote the accordion
using media, artistic agencies and institutions, to help
young talented people at the beginning of their artistic
career.
In Slovakia the National Accordion Alliance is
represented by the MCA, which organizes all the
activities both on domestic and international level.
Each year we organize international music school
meetings ‘Consolations’ involving Hungary, The
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Austria.
Thosare held on the first week of June.
At the CIA-IMC UNESCO Nijmegen Congress in
1991, the Marta Szőkeová Methodical Centre of
Czech expressed its wish for the Slovak selector
competition to be called the Coupe Jeunesse.
Surrounding countries that are not members of the
CIA were invited to compete and also qualify.
Prof. Tibor Rácz - Artistic Director
Methodical Centre of Accordion (M.C.A.)
Marta Szokeová
Member CIA, IMC-UNESCO
Moskovska 21, SK-811 08 Bratislava, SLOVAKIA
Phone - Fax: +421 2 55422863 E-mail: racz.tibor@stonline.sk or racztibor53@gmail.com
Since the beginning of this event, hundreds of
guests, soloists, chamber groups, orchestras,
conductors, composers, such as Frank Marocco,
Mika Väyrynen, Viatcheslav Semionov, Jonas
Tamulionis have attended. Many of the winners of the
world biggest accordion competitions have visited
Bratislava or Dunajská Streda where the Coupe
Jeunesse Festival has been held.The Government
Office, national and international cultural institutions,
ministries, a number of radio stations and TV
channels, gazettes and magazines also report the
festival, competition and the workshops, showing
great international support for the Coupe Jeunesse.
The Slovak TV channels 1 and 2, Slovak radio, and
Slovak and Hungarian media regularly reported the
competition and the concerts.
This year’s Festival, February 5th-8th, 2009,
gathered 128 participants. At the Coupe Jeunesse
there were 27 competitors from 6 different countries.
Winners were:
Category A (up to 14 years), Petra Antlová (Czech);
Category B (up to 17 years), Michal Ochodnický (Slovak);
Category C (up to 25 years), Lydia Skatchko (Belarus).
The participants of this Festival were real young stars
of Europe and the world and winners of many
international competitions. The standing ovations
spoke for themselves, the positive results received b
these young guest artists, the winners of the Czech
and Slovak national competitions Petr Vacek and
Dominik Frčka; and international winners Vladislav
Pligovka (Belarus), Julien ‘Speedy’ Gonzales
(France), Grayson Masefield (New Zealand) and
Petar Maric (Serbia).