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Daily Reports: 11 September, 2026 PIF Castelfidardo
Classic Category D
9:00 a.m. – Paolo Soprani Civic School (Via Ciriaco Mordini, 14 – Castelfidardo, AN)
Category D Jury left to right: Ladislav Horak, Walter Di Girolamo, President: Milian Bjeletic, Melanie Bregant, Roman Jbanov, Lu Xiaolinq, Igor Krizman.
Domenico Santoro
Domenico Santoro
Category D Video Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGnDQInrYAOY
Videos of Category D – 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th placed competitors, lower on this page.
Results: https://accordions.news/results-2026-pif-castelfidardo/
Prize Category (II Test)
9:00 a.m. – San Francesco Auditorium (Via Giuseppe Mazzini, 13 – Castelfidardo, AN)
Virtuoso Senior category (II round) Videos down page.
9:00 a.m. – Hall of Coats of Arms (Piazza della Repubblica, 8 – Castelfidardo, AN)
Performance: Urban Collective Art Laboratory
5:00 PM – Piazza della Repubblica
Seicento22 Collettivo Artistico Fidardense brings an urban collective art workshop to Castelfidardo, open to all.
Performance: Duo Lôro Malandro
5:00 PM – Piazza della Repubblica
Duo Lôro Malandro (Antonino De Luca and Leonardo Rosselli) presents “Enrumbado,” a blend of flamenco, Brazil, and electronic experimentation. Video below.
Official Presentation of the Stamp Dedicated to Scandalli 5:30 PM – Salone Degli Stemmi.
To mark PIF2026, Castelfidardo is celebrating one of the iconic names in Italian accordion-making with the official launch of a stamp dedicated to Scandalli.
On 7 July 2026, the Ministry of Business and Made in Italy selected eight companies to issue definitive stamps for the series “Excellence of the Production System and Made in Italy.” Scandalli Accordions was one of these companies. The presentation took place at the Ministry of Business and Made in Italy in Roma.
The ceremony was presided over by the Minister, Senator Adolfo Urso, and the Undersecretary of State with responsibility for Philately, Fausta Bergamotto. Luca Sciascia, Head of Valuable Products at the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, and Giovanni Machetti, Head of Philately at Poste Italiane also attended that ceremony.
Speakers today included:
– Mirco Patarini, President of Scandalli Accordions; – – Rosalba Pigini, President of the Philatelic Society, Castelfidardo;
– Pietro Sbriscia, Poste Italiane, Philately Representative for the Marche region;
– Barbara Negroni, Poste Italiane, Head of the Central-Northern Macro-Area;
– Mayor of Castelfidardo, Roberto Ascani.
Todays ceremony was accompanied by a performance by accordionist Sara Calvanelli.
Mirco Patarini, President of Scandalli Accordions spoke.
Part of his speech: “Authorities, distinguished guests, collaborators, and friends, welcome!
We at Scandalli are honoured and proud to receive this recognition, and we wanted to share this satisfaction with everyone. What better occasion than the International Accordion Prize for a postmark here in Castelfidardo?
Seeing our history, The Journey of a company to which we have dedicated so much work, imprinted on such a small yet immensely powerful object is something extraordinary. The stamp is not simply a piece of collectible paper: it is a vehicle of memory, a piece of history that travels from hand to hand and that, from today, will carry our message around the world.
A special thanks goes to the institutions that made this tribute possible and, above all, to all our artisans, collaborators, and musicians who, day after day, bring our company to life.
Performance: Advahov Family 10:00 PM – Republic Square
Virtuosity and Moldovan folk tradition: the Advahov family brings accordion, violins, and piano to the PIF.
Around the city – social life:
Premio Round 2:
00:00 Program
00:29 Gavotte et six doubles, RCT 5/7 – Jean-Philippe Rameau
08:42 Liebesleid – Fritz Kreisler, arr. Sergei Rachmaninoff
13:29 Sonata No. 4 Fusion – Viatcheslav Semionov
00:00 Program
00:50 De Profundis – Sofia Gubaidulina
11:53 Sonata in G minor – Domenico Scarlatti
15:55 Transcendental Etude No. 5, Feuxfollets – Franz Liszt
20:58 Sonata No. 6, Op. 42, mvt. II – Anatoly Kusyakov
00:00 Program
00:25 L’Égyptienne – Jean-Philippe Rameau
05:28 Balgkann – Uroš Rojko
16:26 Transcendental Études, S. 139 No.5 in B-flat Major ‘Feux follets’ – Franz Liszt
21:39 Prelude en forme de Danse H. 181, Prelude en Forme d’Étude – Bohuslav Martinů
00:00 Program
00:50 Migrants – Cesare Chiacchiaretta
09:29 Partita Concertante No. 1 – Vladimir Zubitsky
00:00 Program
00:24 Partita Concertanate (in modo di jazz improvisazione) – Vladimir Zubitsky
17:58 La Campanella – Niccolò Paganini, Franz Liszt
00:00 Program
01:05 Prelude and Fuge in C-minor, BWV 546 – Johann Sebastian Bach
08:06 Sonata No. 1 Ultra, 3rd mvt. Presto – Paavo Korpijaakko
13:34 Sonata No. 3, 4th mvt. – Vladislav Zolotaryov
24:38 La Campanella – Niccolò Paganini, Franz Liszt, arr. Viatcheslav Semionov
00:00 Program
00:52 Gena – Jouni Kaipainen
11:07 Sonata in F minor, K. 481 – Domenico Scarlatti
15:21 Danzas Argentinas – Alberto Ginastera
00:00 Program
Radioflakes – Atli Ingólfsson L’Entretien des Muses – Jean-Philippe Rameau
Why so serious? – Aistis Tamulevičius
Five Albanian Folksongs: No. 5 Moje vogel si florini – Paolo Marzocchi
00:00 Program
00:39 La Villageoise – Jean-Philippe Rameau
03:09 Des temps anciens (Ballade in D Major, Op.21) – Anatoly Lyadov
07:22 Sonata for Accordion – Efrem Podgaits
19:45 Fantasy on Two Russian Folk Themes – Alexander Na Yun Kin
00:00 Program
00:33 Sonata in E-flat Major – Domenico Scarlatti
03:46 Partita Concertanate (in modo di jazz improvisazione) – Vladimir Zubitsky
21:18 Danse Diabolique – Joseph Jellmesberger Jr.
Virtuoso Senior Round 2:
00:00 Program
00:31 Averse – Jérôme Richard
02:14 Extrait d’Opale Concerto – Richard Galliano
00:00 Program
00:03 Improvisation on the theme of Spain – Chick Corea
05:03 Song for Joes – Richard Galliano
00:00 Program
00:43 Meloditango – Gustavo Almeida
4:18 La Tempete – André Astier
06:15 Caffè Finale – Simone Zanchini
00:00 Program
00:23 Tango pour Claude – Richard Galliano
04:38 Improve – Aydar Salakhov
00:00 Program
00:30 Heavy Tango – Richard Galliano
Category D, 1st Gabriele Vlada
00:00 Program
AccoTango – Krzysztof Olczak
Metamorphoses – Torbjörn Iwan Lundquist
Sonata in G Major, K. 455 – Domenico Scarlatti
Toccata No. 2, Op. 28 – Ole Schmidt
Category D, 2nd Pasquale Scanzano
00:00 Program
00:38 Sonata in F Major, K. 438 – Domenico Scarlatti
04:25 Romance for You – Yaroslav Oleksiv
10:43 Concerto for Violin & Orchestra in D Major, Op. 35, Finale – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, trans. Vladimir Zubitsky
21:08 ‘Sparks’ Étincelles, Op. 36, No. 6 – Moritz Moszkowski, trans. Yuri Shishkin
Category D, 3rd Antons Pizāns
00:00 Program
00:52 Adagio in B minor, K. 540 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
07:51 Sonata No. 2, mvt. IV – Vladislav Zolotaryov
17:57 Les Trois Mains – Jean-Philippe Rameau
22:11 Five Preludes – Pēteris Plakidis, arr. Tatjana Saratova
Category D, 4th Ksenia Afanaseva
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
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