PANTONALE FESTIVAL 2025 – ACCORDION SPRING

 

The 11th international accordion festival PANTONALE 2025 “Accordion Spring” presents world premieres of works by composers Gorka Hermosa, Mikolaj Majkusiak, Vladislav Zolotaryov and Roberto Molinelli. The jazz concert by Viktor Vlasov, originally for accordion and big band, will be heard in the arrangement by Artem Nyzhnyk for accordion, horn and chamber orchestra.

The international accordion artists Radu Ratoi, Anna Kolovska, and Vladimir Murza will perform with top European soloists such as Anna Lipkind-Mazor (violin), Andrii Murza (violin), Darya Filippenko (viola), Dmitrii Prokofiev (cello), Arkady Shilkloper (horn) and the "Pantonale Chamber Orchestra" under its conductor Miran Vaupotic.

Mikolai Majkusiak's new work for violin (Anna Lipkind-Mazor), cello (Dmitrii Prokofiev) and accordion (Radu Ratoi) will be premiered with string orchestra, as will a work for accordion (Radu Ratoi) with chamber orchestra by Roberto Molinelli.

"Poem" for viola and chamber orchestra by Vladislav Zolotaryov, who died 50 years ago under tragic circumstances, will be premiered with Darya Filippenko as soloist.

Gorka Hermosa, who shaped the two Pantonale Peace Festivals in 2023 and 2024 with premieres of his composition "Peace Dream", has added another work to this with “Hope”. The basis of "Peace Dream" is the Ukrainian "Vesnjanka" (Spring Song) and the Russian folk song "Utuschka lugowaja" (Meadow Duck). These melodies relate to each other, drown out and cross each other, and enter into a musical dialogue. In “Hope” a choir will complement the accordion trio and chamber orchestra. First, both Ukrainian and Russian melodies will appear as mystical as Neptune in the orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, and finally as solemn as Jupiter.

 

 

The Pantonale Festival sees itself as a platform for accordionists, musicians and composers around the accordion. Pantonale will continue to motivate composers to create new works for accordion and other instruments with orchestra: a further contribution to the promotion of the young instrument for 2026, the year of the accordion!