2025 World Music Festival: Sunday June 01

June 1st 2025

Accordions Worldwide

Event Dates:

29 May | 30 May | 31 May | 1 June

Accordions Worldwide Report 2025 World Music Festival, Tag Der Harmonika.

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Awards Ceremony

Official World Music Festival Results

Official World Music Festival Results in detail with each adjudicators marks

The prize giving started with The Hohnerklang Orchestra from Trossingen, Germany featuring instrument harmonicas and accordions, playing and the approximately 3,000 audience clapping and singing along.

14th World Music Festival – Innsbruck, Austria – Audience Entry Time-lapse for Award Ceremony

Concert Level Accordion Orchestra category: 3rd place performance from Akkordeon-Orchester Wiesbaden Dietmar Walther conducted by Stefanie Hazenbiller, competing at the 14th World Music Festival (WMF), held in Innsbruck, Austria in the Concert Level Accordion Orchestra for Adults category. Programme The Colors – Slavko Šuklar Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Scherzo aus »Ein Sommernachtstraum) – F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy arr. Stefanie Hazenbiller

Concert Level Accordion Orchestra category: 2nd place performance from Akkordeon-Orchester Baltmannsweiler e. V. conducted by Thomas Bauer competing at the 14th World Music Festival (WMF), held in Innsbruck, Austria in the Concert Level Accordion Orchestra for Adults category.
00:00 Harry Potter Suite – John Williams arr. Thomas Bauer
00:03 Hedwig’s Theme
05:16 Gilderoy Lockhart
07:37 Aunt Marge’s Waltz
10:10 Dobby The House Elf
13:58 Harry’s Wondrous World

Concert Level Accordion Orchestra category: 1st place performance Performance by the Nürnberger Akkordeonorchester conducted by Stefan Hippe competing at the 14th World Music Festival (WMF). Program: The Moons of Saturn, Part 5 / Die Monde des Saturn, 5. Teil – Stefan Hippe
Romeo and Juliet (Fantasy Overture Finale) – P. I. Tchaikovsky arr. Stefan Hippe

Alison Worthington, Kevin Friedrich, Joan Sommers, Dr Herbert Scheibenreif, Heather Masefield,
Harley Jones

This World Music Festival once again featured a Europaorchester, which, together with the HohnerKlang Orchestra, provided musical accompaniment for the awards ceremony at the end of the festival on Sunday morning. The program included the world premiere of “Prelude For Europe” a new composition by Hans-Günther Kölz, as well as the “cult” song “Music” by John Miles.

First Prize Winners of the World Music Festival 1983 – 2019
1983 Ingolstädter Akkordeonorchester, Dirigent / Conductor: Bernd Maltry
1986 Solisten-Orchester Accordeana Graz, Dirigent / Conductor: Ignaz Oswald
1989 Akkordeonorchester Wiesbaden, Dirigent / Conductor: Dietmar Walther
1992 Akkordeonorchester Baltmannsweiler, Dirigent / Conductor: Thomas Bauer
1995 Akkordeonorchester Dietmar Walther, Wiesbaden, Dirigent / Conductor: Jörg Mehren
1998 Akkordeonorchester Baltmannsweiler, Dirigent / Conductor: Thomas Bauer
2001 Akkordeonorchester Untergrombach, Dirigent / Conductor: Wolfgang Pfeffer
2004 Nürnberger Akkordeonorchester, Dirigent / Conductor: Stefan Hippe
2007 Akkordeonorchester Untergrombach, Dirigent / Conductor: Wolfgang Pfeffer
2010 Nürnberger Akkordeonorchester, Dirigent / Conductor: Stefan Hippe
2013 Orchester AKUD Sonja Marinkovic Novi Sad / Serbien, Dirigent / Conductor: Goran Penic
2016 Akkordeonorchester Baltmannsweiler, Dirigent / Conductor: Thomas Bauer
2019 Akkordeon im Quadrat des »HHV« 1934 Rheingold Mannheim e. V. und das
Hohner-Akkordeon-Orchester Reilingen e. V., Dirigent / Conductor: Johannes Grebencikov

Event Dates:

29 May | 30 May | 31 May | 1 June