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Daily Reports: 10 September, 2026 PIF Castelfidardo – Italy
Classic Category D
9:00 a.m. – Paolo Soprani Civic School (Via Ciriaco Mordini, 14 – Castelfidardo, AN)
Premio Category (Round 1)
9:00 a.m. – San Francesco Auditorium (Via Giuseppe Mazzini, 13 – Castelfidardo, AN)
Virtuoso Senior Category (I round)
9:00 a.m. – Hall of Coats of Arms (Piazza della Repubblica, 8 – Castelfidardo, AN)
Performance: Roberto Palermo
4:45 pm 4:45 PM – Piazza della Repubblica
Accordionist Roberto Palermo brings his solo jazz to Castelfidardo, blending Mediterranean and international sounds.
Performance: Patrizia Angeloni
5:30 PM – Hall of Coats of Arms:
Patrizia Angeloni presents her book on accordion education, combining artistic practice and learning methodology.
Performance: Stormy Trio
6:30 pm – Auditorium San Francesco
The Trio Tempestoso brings Stravinsky, Haydn, Fagerlund and Piazzolla to Castelfidardo in refined chamber music arrangements.
Performance: Giorgio Dellarole, Mirco Patarini and the Astree
7:15 PM – Auditorium San Francesco
Giorgio Dellarole and Mirco Patarini meet L’Astrée, the Turin Baroque Group directed by Giorgio Tabacco, for a Bach evening with solo violinist Francesco D’Orazio.
A project born from the encounter between the accordion and the early repertoire. For nearly twenty years, Giorgio Dellarole has been pursuing research into the creation of an instrument suited to music from the late Renaissance to Classical times, culminating in the use of the eighteenth-century Vallotti temperament, capable of enhancing the different tonal colors.
The recent collaboration with Scandalli and the long-term collaboration with Mirco Patarini, accordionist and owner of the company, have led to the creation of two “Vallotti” accordions, entrusted to the two soloists and designed to interact with L’Astrée, a Turin-based baroque group directed by Giorgio Tabacco. Together with Francesco D’Orazio, the project creates an original encounter between the accordion and the sounds of the early repertoire.
Performance: Korg Fisa Suprema Stars
9:00 PM – Teatro Astra: Valentino Lorenzetti, Pietro Adragna, and Volodymyr Vasylenko star in Korg Fisa Suprema Stars, a blend of virtuosity and innovation. The program features three leading performers on this instrument, musicians who actively collaborate on its development and promotion. The evening will offer an overview of the FISA SUPREMA‘s musical capabilities showcase the versatility.
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Holding speeches (from left): Roberto Ascani (Mayor of Castelfidardo) Stelvio Lorenzetti (CEO Algameco) and Fati Fehmjiu (Accordion Managment Korg/Japan).
00:00 Intro
00:04 Tarantella
01:26 Fisarmonica Impazzita
Volodymyr Vasylenko performs Funk Improvisations at the Korg Fisa Suprema Stars concert.
After the concert
Performance: Aldo Taborda
10:00 PM – Piazza della Repubblica
Aldo Taborda, South American accordion champion and Piazzolla interpreter, closes Thursday evening with Argentine tango.
Accordion personalties from around the world in Castelfidardo for the 51st PIF:
Video Playlist for PIF Premio Category Round 1 – 10 competitors videos. Click the first video by Nikolai Zhigalov, click Watch on Youtube and view all the videos of category Premio Round 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxD5WpBpChA&list=PLNflHLRrwbQ0
PIF Virtuoso Senior Round 1 – each competitor video below.
00:00 Program
00:42 Hommage a Paco – Franck Angelis
05:07 Ne Me Quittes Pas – Jacques Brel
10:27 Valentango – Renzo Ruggieri
00:00 Program
00:24 Ti amo Pesaro – Vladimir Zubitsky
03:42 Basso Ostinato – Victor Vlasov
07:44 Caravan (Ballad on the theme) – Juan Tizol & Duke Ellington, arr. Viktor Novikov
00:00 Program
00:36 Tango Revenge – Antonio Spaccarotella
04:43 Valjojuju – J.C. de Lima, arr. Gustavo Almeida
07:11 Galliano no Forró – Nonato Lima, arr. Gustavo Almeida
09:53 Sur un air de Migliavacca – Eric Bouvelle, arr. Antonio Spaccarotella
00:00 Program
00:29 Dance Monkey – Tones And I
04:36 Pondicherry Tango – Jérôme Richard
08:16 Blue and White Porcelain – Zhou Jielun
11:54 The Fest in Moldavanka – Victor Vlasov
00:00 Program
00:26 Accordionist in New York – Emanuele Rastelli
04:07 Omaggio ad Astor Piazzolla – Vladimir Zubitsky
PIF Category D. This competition had a very large entry and was held over two days. This was Day 1.
00:00 Program Four Pieces for Piano,
IV – Edvard Grieg Jabberwocky – Jesper Koch
Sonata in G Major, K. 168 – Domineco Scarlatti
La Campanella – Franz Liszt
00:00 Program
00:35 Sonata in B minor, K. 227 – Domenico Scarlatti
05:01 Vocalise, Op. 32, No. 14 – Sergei Rachmaninoff
11:34 Sonata No. 6 – Anatoly Kusyakov
00:00 Program
00:20 Fantasie Brillante on themes from Bizet’s ‘Carmen’ – Georges Bizet, arr. François Borne 09:04 Beijing, mvt I, II – Franck Angelis
17:13 Roma Tango – Renzo Ruggieri
22:41 Shidi-Ridi Kolomyika – Volodymyr Vasylenko
00:00 Program
00:05 Sonata in B minor, K. 87 – Domenico Scarlatti
04:18 Andante F Major, KV. 616 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
10:09 Sonata No. 2 ‘Dead on Time’ (I Toccata, II Mediation (Before the Curtain), III Burning Papyrus) – Paavo Korpijaakko
00:00 Program
00:20 Fantasie Brillante on themes from Bizet’s ‘Carmen’ – Georges Bizet, arr. François Borne 09:04 Beijing, mvt I, II – Franck Angelis
17:13 Roma Tango – Renzo Ruggieri
22:41 Shidi-Ridi Kolomyika – Volodymyr Vasylenko
00:00 Program
00:32 Fantasia in A minor, BWV 922 – Johann Sebastian Bach
07:24 Sonata No. 7 Misterium, mvt. 1, 2, 5, 6 – Anatoly Kusyakov
18:50 Etude in F Major, Op. 72, No. 6 – Moritz Moszkowski
00:00 Program
00:33 Sonata No. 2 ‘Basqueriad – Viacheslav Semionov
11:53 Sonata in B-flat Major, K. 248 – Domenico Scarlatti
16:14 Rondo-Capriccioso – Vladislav Zolotaryov, arr. Semion Shmelkov
00:00 Program
00:12 Sonata in G Major, K. 55 – Domenico Scarlatti
03:58 Quaderno Bulgaro, mvts I, II, III, VI, VIII – Vladimir Zubitsky
12:21 Spanish Caprice, Op. 37 – Moritz Moszkowki, arr. Viacheslav Semionov
19:54 Chiquilin de Bachin – Astor Piazzolla, arr. Franck Angelis
00:00 Program
00:44 Gavotte et six doubles, RCT 5/7 – Jean-Philippe Rameau
08:21 Gnomenreigen – Franz Liszt
12:10 Scherzo, Op. 31 – Alexandre Guilmant
18:02 Suite, mvt. I – Victor Vlasov
00:00 Program
00:37 Sonata in D minor, K. 141 – Domenico Scarlatti
05:14 Disco-Toccata – Petri Makkonen
11:12 Fugue in G minor, BWV 542 – Johann Sebastian Bach
18:51 Improvisation on a Theme by Boris Mokrousov ‘The Lonely Harmonica’ – Vyacheslav Chernikov
00:00 Program
00:02 Prelude and Fugue in F minor, BWV 881 – Johann Sebastian Bach
04:54 Danse Macabre – Camille Saint-Saëns, trans. Franz Liszt, arr. Vladimir Horowitz
16:14 Emotions of War suite, Part 1 Despair – Valery Kolyadyuk
00:00 Program
00:45 The Wasteland – Dražan Kosorić
07:50 Sonata in G Major, K. 455 – Domenico Scarlatti
10:52 Partita No.1 – Vladislav Zolotaryov
00:00 Program
00:25 Toccata No. 1, Op. 24 – Ole Schmidt
06:43 Prelude and Fugue in B-flat minor. BWV 867 – Johann Sebastian Bach
12:19 Partita – Anatoly Kusyakov
All the rest of Category D for both days can be found at Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGnDQInrYAOY
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