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contestant for Sunday morning in the Auditorium was Christine Chiu. |
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Adjudicators
beginning the day in the auditorium. Left to right: Adam Thorpe, Meg Fidler,
Danielle Beston, Silvio de Pra. |
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| Amber
Masefield worked all the event assisting in the draw room and organising
the judges music. |
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A
favourite with the audience was 4 year old Alexandra Reekie. The audience
had a laugh when compere John Statham announced her as Lionel (her father).
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| John
Statham just caught Christian Allen before he started, and unclipped the
top of the bellows. It sure helps!!!! |
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George
Xu, first time entrant in the South Pacific Accordion Championship Solo
15 years & under category aquitted himself very well against competitors
with greatly more experience, and was awarded by the adjudicators, a Highly
Commended certificate for his performances. |
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| Stephanie
Panzic, First placegetter in the South Pacific Accordion Championship
Solo 15 years & under category. |
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NZAA
Committee member Heather Masefield helping on the stage. |
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| Campbell
Thwaites, 2nd placegetter in the South Pacific Accordion Championship
Solo 15 years & under category, this time tapping the grille rather
than the keys. An excellent close competition. |
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Aonghas
Anderson, 3rd in the South Pacific Accordion Championship Solo 15 years
& under category. |
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| Very
pretty costume by Rebecca Wright for the Entertainment 10 years and under
category. |
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A
group of costumes for the Entertainment categories: Left to right, Aghilan
Newman, Abigail Wills, Rebecca Wright, Bor-Kuan Song. |
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| McKeogh
Trio, left to right: Siobhan, Keava and father Colm McKeogh. |
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The
Sight Reading category is not open to the public. Here judge Wallace Liggett
and contestant Kristina Panzic. |
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| Stephanie
Poole, Auckland University Accordion tutor and Elizabeth Jones ASA President
enjoying a chat together. |
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Panzic Family, left to right: Stephanie, Leo, Olivia,
Annemarie and Kristina Panzic. Leo worked most of the weekend on the auditorium
door and Anne-marie is the Competitions Secretary, definitely kept busy
this weekend!!!! The three daughters won many classes including Olivia
winning the South Pacific 12 years and under Solo Championship and Stephanie
winning the South Pacific 15 years and under Solo Championship. |
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| Kevin
Friedrich having a chat at lunch with Silvio de Pra and Wallace Liggett. |
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| Liz
Jones, Musical Director for the ASA Youth Orchestra (NSW Division) being
introduced and taking a bow. |
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Olivia
Panzic, First placegetter in the South Pacific 12 years & under piano
accordion solo championship. |
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| Stephanie
Panzic, First place in the South Pacific 15 years & under solo piano
accordion championship. |
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Grayson
Masefield, First place in the New Zealand Accordion Solo Open Championship. |
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| Campbell
Hill, First place in the South Pacific Solo Piano Accordion Championship. |
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Campbell
Hill performing Don Rhapsody composed by Viatcheslave Semionov. |
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| Kevin
Friedrich, CIA President personally presenting CIA awards that have been
awarded to Australasians in recent years. To the left is Heather Masefield
assisting the presentation. |
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Presenting
the certificate for participation in the 2005 Coupe Mondiale Junior Virtuoso
Entertainment category to Grayson Masefield. |
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| Presenting
the certificate for participation in the 2005 Coupe Mondiale Piano Accordion
category to Campbell Hill. |
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Thanking
Christine Adams who had been awarded the CIA Merit Award for her enormous
work with the accordions.com Weekly News, bringing accordionists from
around the world much closer together. |
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| Alexander
Shirunov of Russia about to start his program. He is the 2005 Coupe Mondiale
World Piano Accordion champion and won the tour to perform in Australia
and New Zealand. |
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Alexander
Shirunov moved so around so much on the chair, that the photos are often
blurred. |
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| Shirunov
played an exciting program, must of it from his newly released CD which
also enjoyed excellent sales over the weekend. |
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This
time, the hands are a little blurred, as they beat out a sound pattern
on the accordion. All part of the interesting and diverse but popular
performance. |
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contrasting slow work, also from his new CD showed off the diversity of
this superb musician. |
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As
I photographed this ending, I thought the accordion was going to land
on the floor. Dynamic action - thats for sure, enjoyed by the audience
who gave Alexander Shirunov a strong standing ovation. |
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A
nice ending thank you speech by President John Statham thanking the near
capacity audience for coming and being such a great audience.
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