An exciting 71st Coupe Mondiale held in Kaunas hosted by the Lithuanian National Accordionist’s Union and the Confédération Internationale des Accordéonistes (CIA) was a great success.

Picture left: Coupe Mondiale Champion Radu Ratoi (Moldova) with the travelling Coupe Mondiale Trophy. Radu Ratoi also won the Virtuoso Entertainment category.

71st Coupe Mondiale results:
1st Radu Ratoi (Moldova)
2nd Nikita Vlasov (Russia)
3rd Augustinas Rakauskas (Lithuania)

Masters Coupe Mondiale results:
1st Nikolay Teleshenko (Russia)
2nd Maksym Hafych (Ukraine)
3rd Konstantin Voloshko (Russia)

Virtuoso Entertainment Music results:
1st Radu Ratoi (Moldova)
2nd Egle Bartkeviciute (Lithuania)
3rd Artem Tretiakov (Russia)

All results including placings and all ajudicators scores at: 2018CMResults

Videos of nearly every Coupe Mondiale performance is online. Please view the 2018 Coupe Mondiale Daily Reports and videos of all the contestants. Enjoy the superb music by the exceptional young musicians competing in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Daily Reports at: http://coupemondiale.org/2018/lt_rev_25.html
Video Homepage & Video Timetable at: 2018CM-Video

40 page color program download (1.24MB): 2018CM-Program.pdf

Picture below: Coupe Mondiale 3rd place Augustinas Rakauskas, also winner of the Coupe Mondiale International Competition for Chamber Music with wife Greta Staponkute-Rakauskiene (viola).