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NZAA Committee Member Jessica Chen looking after the Draw Room all weekend.
Jan Olsen with Competition Secretary and Co-ordinator Megan Jennings
NZAA Committee Campbell Bettridge with Grayson Masefield
NZAA Committee Member George Xu with Stephanie Panzic looking after the food for the weekend.
Shane Adams looking after the ticket sales all weekend, catching up with Alison Worthington
NZAA Treasurer Amber Masefield with NZAA Committee Member and Judges Coordinator Jenna Murray
Tony Davies-Jones with Antoinette Rodahl
Andrew Glover with Robert Winchester- conductor of Musicale
Tania Lukic-Marx and Tatiana Lanchtchikova
Kevin Friedrich and Rob Thwaites
In celebrating the NZAA 40th Anniverary Memorabilia was on display.
Uniforms on display from past orchestras.
Alanah Jones with her Teacher Heather Masefield
Tania Lukic-Marx with her students back stage.
Andrew Glover performed in the Open Solo with Self Vocal, and was invited to play in the Finale Concert
Stephanie Rooke
Bor-Kuan Song performing first in the South Pacific and NZ Solo Championship class
Bor-Kuan Song
Edward Giffney performing second in the South Pacific and NZ Solo Championship class
Edward Giffney
Campbell Thwaites performing third in the South Pacific and NZ Solo Championship class
Campbell Thwaites
Jenny Manurewa, Amy and Megan Jennings
Christine Johnstone conducting the North Shore Music Makers Accordion Orchestra
The Accordigles
Robert Winchester conducting the North Shore Musicale
Joe Ly, Joyce Ly, Harley Jones and Jessica Jin
North Shore Music Makers, Harley Jones, Renee Jefferies and their conductor Christine Johnstone
Harley Jones with Accordigles
Harley Jones and Campbell Thwaites winner of the South Pacific and NZ Solo Championship Class.
Bor-Kuan Song, Edward Giffney, Campbell Thwaites and Harley Jones.
RESULTS
SUNDAY MORNING
9:00 AM Championship Class C3, New Zealand Solo, 9 years and under
FIRST Catrina Lin
SECOND Angela Chen
THIRD Alanah Jones
9:05 AM Championship Class C9, New Zealand Solo, 15 years and under
FIRST Joyce Ly
THIRD Joe Ly
9:05 AM South Pacific Class SP251, South Pacific Piano Accordion Solo, 15 years and under
FIRST Jessica Jin
SECOND Joyce Ly
THIRD Joe Ly
9:37 AM Qualified Class Q226, Entertainment Solo, 10 years and under
FIRST Alexandra Reekie
9:41 AM Qualified Class Q231, Ethnic Solo, 11 and 12 years
FIRST Helen Wang
WITHDRAWN Lucy Cossar
9:44 AM Qualified Class Q232, Ethnic Solo, 13 to 15 years
FIRST Peter Robinson
9:50 AM Qualified Class Q233, Ethnic Solo, 16 years and over
FIRST Aghilan Newman
9:53 AM Qualified Class Q235, Accordion with Self Vocal Open Solo
FIRST Andrew Glover
9:58 AM Qualified Class Q236, Improvisation Solo, 10 years and under
FIRST Stephanie Rooke
10:00 AM Qualified Class Q230, Ethnic Solo, 10 years and under
FIRST Alexandra Reekie
10:03 AM Qualified Class Q239, Improvisation Solo, 16 years and over
FIRST Aidan Wright
10:06 AM Championship Class C16, New Zealand Solo Accordion Championship
FIRST Campbell Thwaites
SECOND Edward Giffney
THIRD Bor-Kuan Song
10:06 AM South Pacific Class SP252, South Pacific Piano Accordion Solo, 23 years and under
FIRST Campbell Thwaites
SECOND Edward Giffney
THIRD Bor-Kuan Song
11:06 AM Qualified Class Q285, Open Entertainment Group, with or without other Instrument/s
FIRST Megan Jennings, Amy Jennings & Jenny Manuera
11:10 AM Championship Class C61, New Zealand Intermediate Accordion Orchestra Championship
FIRST The Accordigles
SECOND North Shore Music Makers
AWARDS 2011
Sam Rutherford: Bor-Kuan Song
Cecil Smith: Amy Jennings
Cocurullo Trophy: Shane Adams & D orothy Taylor
Doreen & Ben Emmett: Eddie Giffney
Emmett Family: George Xu & Jessica Chen
Ben Emmett: NZ Champion Orchestra
NZAA Life Members and Conductors of the winning orchestras of the NZ Championship Orchestras
NZAA 40th Anniversay Accordion Orchestra
Children from the audience showing the actions to 'YMCA' while the orchestra plays
Presented by John Statham
Kevin Friedrich's life with the accordion began from a fascination with the visual appeal and unique sound of the instrument, which he first saw and heard at a performance by the Ben Emmett Accordion Orchestra. Kevin started accordion lessons with Ben Emmett, in his home town of Dargaville, at the age of nine. His perseverance and talent lead to weekly six-hour return trips to Auckland for accordion lessons from Allan Jones and Harley Jones, after the untimely death of Mr. Emmett in 1976. Kevin won the NZAA National Accordion Solo Championship titles in 1979 and 1980, and went on to represent New Zealand in three Coupe Mondiale World Accordion Championships, attaining a very respectable 5th placing in 1981. After gaining the Accordion Teachers Diploma of New Zealand, Kevin went on to the USA to study for a Bachelor of Music in Accordion Performance from the University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC), supervised by Professor Joan C. Sommers. Kevin went on to studying the Bayan (button accordion) at the Conservatoire Paul Dukas in Paris, France, under Professor Max Bonnay. Today, Kevin is one of the few accordionists internationally who is proficient to concert standard on both the piano accordion and on the bayan. As a concert accordionists, Kevin has performed and recorded with accordion orchestras in China, USA, Denmark, Italy, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Russia, Czech Republic, Australia and New Zealand. He played for many years as part of the International Trio with Julie and Juha Silfverburg. Whilst Kevin has now made his home overseas, he regularly returns to New Zealand where he continues to promote the accordion through concerts, adjudication and master classes. Most recently, he established the accordion collection in the Dargaville Museum in honour of Jenny Cocurullo and teachers Ben Emmett and Allan Jones. The collection is called Accordion Gems, a Master Collection of Accordions Through Time. In conjunction with his on-going work with the local Dargaville community, Kevin had commissioned Gem of the Kaipara by Gary Daverne for accordion orchestra, in memory of Jenny Cocurullo. In the USA, his new home (since the 1980's), Kevin rose through the ranks to achieve positions on the Board for both the American Accordionist' Association (AAA); and the Accordionists & Teachers Guild, International (ATG), positions which he still holds today. On the international scene, Kevin was elected CIA President in 2001, after serving as CIA Vice President. Kevin is very proud that a New Zealander has achieved this role, as the first non-european CIA President. As CIA President, Kevin has represented the accordion at the International Music Council (IMC-UNESCO), the biggest non-governmental division of UNESCO. Kevin, has completed his two terms as CIA President and is now the CIA Ambassador and member of the CIA Executive. Additionally, Kevin is a NZAA Life Member and he holds Honourary Status with the National Accordion Organisation of the United Kingdom (NAO). The NZAA thanks and commends Kevin for his service and dedication as CIA President for the past eight years, for his efforts in promoting the accordion, and for his outstanding representation of the New Zealand accordion movement on an international scale, with the award of the NZAA Lifetime Achievement Award. |
Kevin Friedrich and John Staham
NZ Solo Champions Accordion Orchestra
Campbell Thwaites winner of the South Pacific and NZ Solo Championship class
Maurice Jones plays a 'Rock'n'Roll' Medley and is joined on stage with his daughter, Alanah Jones
Edward Giffney, 2010 South Pacific and NZ Solo Champion
Andrew Glover performs his piece from the open Accordion solo with self vocal class
Kevin Friedrich joins Lionel Reekie in a duet and showcases a very different accordion
Presentation to John Statham of CD Remastered Accordion Recordings
Presented by Harley Jones
The NZAA has a project in support of the Dargaville Museum 'Accordion Gems
...A Master Collection of Accordions through Time' ...
This major accordion display was initiated by our NZAA Life Member Kevin Friedrich.
The NZAA project is to find all the old historic recordings of accordion performance. Many of these performances were well recorded for National Broadcast Radio or on LP or EP's. The NZAA project is to remaster these historic recordings to modern digital files, able to be played as CD's. There are recordings of John Statham that were broadcast on NZ National Radio that we hope to recover and remaster. As part of this project, some of the recordings made some 30 years ago by John Statham have been identified and Gary Daverne has remastered them for the NZAA into modern CD quality, to be ready in time for the NZAA 40th Anniversary. Gary Daverne has been of invaluable assistance in this remastering of these old recordings and we thank him for his greatly appreciated help. The results are very good quality, so much so, that the decision has been made to re-release these recordings in the next few days on the MusicForAccordion.com and iTunes websites as well as to have them form part of the Dargaville Museum accordion history display. I would therefore like to present to John Statham the first of these historical digital files that have been remastered of his performances. This CD contains six tracks, two are in duet with Maurice Jones (and were performed at the 1980 Coupe Mondiale) and four were recorded about 1996 in Trio with singer Paul Marshal and Maurice Jones. The NZAA is excited to present this unique part of the history of the accordion in NZ to John Statham as part of their thank you to him for his many years of superb leadership. We honor the huge contribution that John Statham has made to the accordion in New Zealand. |
Harley Jones and John Statham
On behalf of the Confédération Internationale des Accordéonistes (CIA) Executive Committee, it is a great pleasure to be here today during this 40th Aniversary Festival. I have the added bonus of not only representing the CIA, but also being here as a proud NZAA Life Member. When John Statham's father gave his eight year old son an accordion for Christmas, he could not have known the significant part the instrument was to play in his life. John took lessons from Victor Johnson, Eddie McCullough, Peter Torckler and Allan Jones, culminating in him winning the New Zealand Solo Accordion Championship Title at the 1967 NZ Accordion Competitions. He began to take a strong role in accordion activities, joining the committee of the newly formed NZAA in 1971. An active part of the 1980 Coupe Mondiale organizing committee, as part of the promotion, John's contribution also included successfully breaking the Guinness Book World Record for non stop accordion playing. John successfully completed 81 hours playing, drawing a lot of media attention to the 1980 Coupe Mondiale as well as raising a considerable amount of money for the event. In addition to compering the entire 1980 Coupe Mondiale Festival, John has compered almost every NZAA Competition Festival since, as well as many other of the NZAA sponsored events. The accordion has played a major part of John's life - as a professional entertainer for many years, including performing on National Radio and recording an EP in 1985. As a teacher, John has had the pleasure of seeing two of his students, Lance Lincoln and Judith Lincoln become New Zealand Solo Accordion Champions. John has served on the Board of the Accordion Examination Board of New Zealand (AEBNZ) for 28 years in various roles, currently holding the Vice Chairman position. In 1982 John was elected the President of the NZAA and has steered his hard working committee on a steady course during his 27 years in this position. Under his leadership and guidance the NZAA has accomplished many exciting things during these Golden years of the accordion in NZ, including some of the projects that John was successful in such as:
It is with pleasure that the CIA acknowledges John Statham for his years of dedication and commitment to the NZAA and the advancement of the accordion in New Zealand, by unanimously awarding him the CIA Honored Friend of the Accordion Award. |
Kevin Friedrich and John Statham
The concert concluded with the North Shore Accordion Orchestra conducted by Lionel Reekie
Olivia and Stephanie Panzic, Roseanne Rosario, Amber Masefield and Jenny Murray going back to the 70's
Megan Jennings, Sonja Palinich and Alison Worthington
Members of the Village People - Campbell Bettridge, Grayson Masefield and Lionel Reekie
Campbell Thwaites receiving the South Pacific Championship Trophy
Amy Jennings receiving the Cecil Smith Trophy
Edward Giffney receiving the Doreen and Ben Emmett Memorial Rosebowl
George Xu and Jessica Chen collecting the Emmett Family Classical Ensemble Trophy
Stephanie Poole and Gary Daverne receiving the Ben Emmett Accordion
Orchestra Trophy - NZ Solo Champions Accordion Orchestra
John Statham with wife Jillienne after being presented with a plaque.
"The New Zealand Accordion Association Inc. honours your profound contribution toward the
advancement of the accordion in New Zealand and thanks you for 28 years of dedicated
leadership as NZAA President from 1982-2011"
Maurice Jones, Lionel Reekie and Steven Cope provide the accordion entertainment
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