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Anne Niepold (Belgium/Germany) and Riccardo Tesi (Italy).
Solo performances from two extraordinarily gifted and influential European musicians in one concert.
Anne Niepold
Anne Niepold is a renowned diatonic accordionist and composer. Having started in the world of traditional music, she developed an interest in improvised music and studied jazz composition and arrangement at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where she won her Master's degree as well as the prestigious Toots Thielemans Jazz Award.
Anne will be debuting material from her new album Vita Brevis.
Anne is an incredible diatonic accordion player. Nothing scares her. She knows no limits. On the contrary, she magnifies the constraints of her accordion with impressive results. Accordéon et accordéonistes magazine.
"... she shows us the right path, that of intelligence, respect, emotion and heart. Run fast to listen to her and see her in concert! " Richard Galliano
Riccardo Tesi
Riccardo Tesi is an internationally acclaimed accordion player and composer, and one of the most daring and authoritative musicians on the European world music scene. He has an instantly recognisable style, drawing on ancient and modern musical languages, he has widened the vocabulary and the technique of an instrument that has long been associated with traditional music. Over 35 years he has played with world music artists such as Elena Ledda, Justin Vali, Kepa Junkera, John Kirkpatrick and Patrick Vaillant, jazz musicians Gianluigi Trovesi and Gabriele Mirabassi, and great songwriters such as Ivano Fossati, Fabrizio De Andrè and Gian Maria Testa. Leader of Banditaliana , one of the most renowned Italian groups on the world music international scene , and member of Samurai, all stars quintet of European accordion players, he has played in the most important jazz and folk festivals all over Europe, Australia, Canada and Japan.
The Bowerhouse is an independently run art and performance space in Maidstone, Kent.
We have regular concerts and community events including folk club (4th Tuesday of the month 8pm-11pm) life drawing (every Thursday 7pm-9pm), community choir (every Wednesday 7.30pm- 9pm)
20 Warwick Place,
Maidstone,
Kent,
England,
ME16 8SG.
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