Two “ZUGumZUG” Accordion Concerts for seven accordionists and an accordion orchestra will be held in October this year in Germany. The concerts will be held for the “Year of the Accordion 2026” and are part of the Rhineland-Palatinate Cultural Summer.

Performers include Vojta Drnek, Annette Rießner, Florian Stadler, Susanne Stock, Ute Völker, Eva Zöllner, N.N.and accordion students of the Kreismusikschule Altenkirchen (Altenkirchen District Music School).

Concert dates:

October 1st, 2026 at 8pm at the Kunstraum Heilig Geist in Essen, Germany
October 2nd, 2026 at 7.30pm at the Altenkirchen Church in Altenkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Their program will include their own compositions, improvisations and a world premiere by the South American composer Osvaldo Budón.

“When this mass of accordionists fills the concert church with its sounds, the audience experiences an unusual interplay between polyphony and harmony, closeness and distance, tradition and avant-garde.”

Admission free – donations requested.