Accordion Orchestra Workshop

from 9.00am to 6.00pm 

At the Ripley Village Hall, 

Ripley, 

Surrey

GU23 6AJ 

http://guildford-accordion-club-map.tk/

United Kingdom

The Orchestra Workshop will be conducted by John Leslie

This event is organised by:

The Tillingbourne Accordion Orchestra

& The Guildford Accordion Club 

Sunday 31st October 2010 

The cost of attending this Accordion Orchestra Workshop

will be just £5.00 per person.

Venue is :-

The Ripley Village Hall, Nr. Guildford, Surrey

M25 J10 - then A3 -follow signs to Ripley.

Postcode is GU23 6AJ

If you want more information, please call:

John Cumiskey on 0208 546 1767

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Web: http://www.guildford-accordion-club.org.

uk/

Local Bed & Breakfast Accomodation - Please click below!

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Ample Free Car Parking

Tea/Coffee and Snacks available all day.

Attention all accordionists, if you would like to join this 

"John Leslie Accordion Orchestra Workshop".

Or, if you just love listening to accordions,

 why not come along and watch 

as an accordion orchestra is created in front of your eyes.

Please call John Cumiskey 0208 546 1767 for information and an application forms!

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John Leslie 

John studied accordion with Eddie Harris until the age of 18, and has been a full time professional accordionist since the age of 20, recording and broadcasting for the B.B.C. and many record companies. John first performed on television when he was 12 years old, he appeared in the “Picture Page” programme, with Peter Bruff, (Educating Archie) and Max Bygraves, John has since been regularly featured on radio as a soloist, and with many groups, including “Barber Shop” his own "John Leslie Sounds" on programmes such as: - "Breakfast Special", "The Charlie Chester Show", "Music Through Midnight" as well as many others, He has also recorded backing tracks for adverts, TV. play’s and films, including "Moonstone", "No Bananas", plus several ‘Walt Disney’ and ‘Indiana Jones’ films. John has also broadcast and recorded in many countries, including Sweden – Finland – Germany – France – Italy – Switzerland and Holland.

A whole host of stars list amongst those that John has worked with. Donald Sinden – Tommy Cooper – Joan Heal - Una Stubbs – Anna Sharkey - Terence Alexander, to name but a few. For fourteen years, John was the featured accordionist / arranger with Jules Rubin and the Latinairs, recording tapes – discs – LP's. radio and TV. programmes. Whilst working with Jules Rubens, John became prolific in writing and arranging specialised Latin American rhythms and arrangements for the group, which had a line up of: - Piano – Guitar - Accordion - Double Bass - and three percussion, (a very busy and famous group indeed) John has also written many arrangements for cabaret artists such as Louise Lane and Kay Garner. 

Internationally, John Leslie has regularly represented Great Britain, adjudicating the C.I.A. World Accordion Championships, his first appointment being in Vichy – France, in 1973, and subsequently in many countries throughout the world, the most recent being held in France in 2004, where he celebrated his 31st year of international adjudicating. In fact John Leslie has adjudicated more C.I.A. world accordion championships, than any other adjudicator in the world, he is also the longest serving member of the international music committee of the C.I.A. (Confederation International Accordionists). John is commonly recognised as the most successful accordion teacher in the U.K. having taught many of today’s professional player’s and teachers, he was the first appointed teacher of accordion at the Kingston University, Surrey, where he guided Amanda Tyson and Julie North through the performance requirements for the B.A. Hons. Degree, he was also the first appointed accordion teacher for Nene College, and was honoured with an appointment as “head of musical studies” for a specialist course at the Portsmouth University. John Leslie is the only accordion teacher ever to be appointed to teach at the world famous Purcell School of Music

In 1988, the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, commissioned John Leslie to write the music for the first five grades of the practical accordion examinations, for both Stradella and Free Bass systems, The music that John composed for the Guildhall accordion examination syllabus has been carefully prepared so as to be in line with the musical and technical requirements of other instruments at the same grades. The graded compositions are contained in three books, which have been acclaimed world wide, (in France and Norway in particular, where they have been the subject of discussions in magazines and on radio programmes) as extremely musical and demanding for both student and teacher.

In 2001, Dr. Djordje Gajic (Yugoslavia,) now residing and teaching accordion in Glasgow, Scotland, advised professor, Nikolai Kraftskov, head of studies, at the St. Petersburg (Russia) Institute of Art and Culture, (where there are more than 300 full time accordion students,) that John Leslie would be of great benefit to the accordion students in the Institute. Impressed with the recommendation given by Dr. Djordje Gajic, professor Kraftskov engaged John to lecture and teach at the St. Petersburg Institute of Art and Culture, during November 2001. The Russian students and professor’s were so impressed with John’s knowledge, and style of tuition, that they have since invited him to return.

As well as the stunning CV above John teaches the accordion and also owns and runs Accordions of London

http://www.accordionsoflondon.com/

John Leslie can be contacted at his shop on:- 0207 624 9001 or 07831 424444