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Judges on Saturday morning in the main auditorium
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Sonja Palanich, Adam Thorpe, Stephen Vincent and Carol Yan. |
Alanah Jones, 3 years, is the youngest competitor
for 2007.
Daughter of well known accordionists Maurice and Lian Jones. |
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Heather Masefield and Christine Adams, |
NZAA Competitions Secretary Annemarie Panzic and Leo
Panzic.
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Happy Birthday to Kristina Panzic seated,
Olivia Panzic, Carol Yan and Stephanie Panzic. |
Mrs Thwaites, Campbell Thwaites, Tania Lukic-Marx
(AATA President - Australia ) seen wearing a New Zealand Silver Fern & musical notes cardigan. |
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Abi Wills, NZAA Competitions Co-ordinator Rien Wills,
NZAA Committee member and adjudicators co-ordinator Adam Thorpe. |
NZAA Life Members attending 2007. Dorothy Taylor (mother
of Christine Adams) and Meg Fidler, conductor of the Christchurch Accordion
Orchestra.
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| A group of competitors waiting behind stage to compete. |
Jenna Murray and Marcel Riethmann judging.
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Family McKeogh played in the Open Entertainment Group
category.
Daughters Keava and Siobhan supporting father Colm on crutches with his injured foot in plaster. Colm drove the family two hours from Hamilton to be there. |
Another interesting entry in the same category
was Helen & David Evans, Rowan & Kieran van den Hurk with their Kildare Medley of Irish music. Helen even did some Irish dancing. |
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Raewyn Wang, Alexandra Reekie and Nikita Lau
were some of the younger competitors pictured waiting for their class. |
2006 Coupe Mondiale Piano Accordion Champion Vladimir
Anikin (Russia)
gave a festival performance. |
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Vladimir Anikin finishing his festival performance
with a flourish.
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Prize-giving. One witty NZAA committee member looking
at this photo asked
if it was a "photo of a competition withdrawal?" We all laughed so hard that you now see this picture!!!! |
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Prizegiving begins - its a busy stage at times with
President John reading out the results and Vice-President Harley presenting
certificates, trophies and ribbons.
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Alexandra Reekie 2nd and Helen Wang 1st being presented certificates, ribbons and cup for NZ Accordion Championships 8 years & under category. |
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| South Pacific 15 years and under Accordion Championships
Prize-giving: John Statham, Harley Jones, Edward Giffney 1st, Olivia Panzic 2nd = Campbell Thwaites 2nd =, Bor-Kuan Highly Commended. |
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| South Pacific 12 years and under Accordion Championships Prize-giving. John Statham, Harley Jones, Richard She 1st, Abi Wills 2nd, Yiran Qin 3rd. |
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| NZ Intermediate Accordion Orchestra Championship, North Shore Music Makers, Conductor Christine Adams assisted by Lynley Hawkes. |
| The Saturday afternoon competitions classes were run
including the top solo category - South Pacific Piano Accordion Solo Championship and also the top accordion orchestra category. |
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| North Shore Musicale Accordion Orchestra conducted by Carol Yan winning the New Zealand Accordion Orchestra Championship. |
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The South Pacific Open Piano Accordion Solo Championship
category is a
newly created international category. Results were: Christopher Thwaites (New Zealand) and Theresa Holzmeier (Germany) 1st =, George Xu (New Zealand) 3rd. |
New Zealand Solo Piano Accordion Championship Open
category.
Christopher Thwaites 1st, George Xu (New Zealand) 2nd, Edward Giffney 3rd. |
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| Top Solo category South Pacific Piano Accordion
Championships results were: Grayson Masefield 1st (New Zealand), Daisy Huang 2nd (China / New Zealand), Jessica Chen 3rd (New Zealand). |
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| North Shore Musicale Accordion Orchestra on stage, musical director Heather Masefield and conductor Carol Yan (centre) to collect trophy, certificates and ribbons. |
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