Oleg Sharov from St Petersburg.
Oleg Sharov - UK Tour October 2011
Tuesday 18th October - North Staffs Accordion Club
Wednesday 19th October - Stockport Accordion Club
Thursday 20th October - Craven Accordion Orchestra - Concert
Friday 21st October - Accordion Festival Folkestone
Saturday 22nd October - Accordion Festival Folkestone
Sunday 23rd October - Accordion Festival Folkestone
Monday 24th October - Accordion Festival Folkestone - AM
Tuesday 25th October - Chester Accordion Club
Wednesday 26th October - Vacant
Thursday 27th October - Harlow Accordion Club Essex
Friday 28th October - CAO at The Ripley Village Hall Surrey
Saturday 29th October - Play Accordion Club - Burgess Hill
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Former World Accordion Champion Oleg Sharov
will be touring the UK Accordion Clubs
again for this welcome return to the UK.
He will be visiting us from Tuesday 18th October until Saturday 29th October 2011.
Anyone Accordion Club/Festival who may be interested in booking a date for Oleg's October 2011 tour should
email: info@ukaccordions.com
Oleg Sharov was born in 1946 in St. Petersburg-Russia- and is a product of the wide range of musical facilities offered by the former Soviet State systemAfter preparatory school, he attended at the age of eight, one of the Children's Music Schools in St. Petersburg, of which there are no less than fifty in the city. His chosen instrument was the Bayan-Accordion.After 'Middle Level' studies he secured one of only 20 places available that year, at the world famous St. Petersburg "Rimsky Korsakov" Conservatory of Music. He completed five years of study, and was invited to join one of the privileged classes called 'Asperantura,' which led to his appointment as a tutor at the Conservatory. He is currently Senior Professor of Music and head of the accordion department at the Conservatory.
He toured extensively in the Soviet Union, Finland and Eastern Europe. It was not until Perestroika that he was able to tour in the West and Scandinavia (1987) and the USA (1990).In recent years Oleg Sharov has given premiers of about twenty modern and original works for free bass accordion of Russian and European composers. One of the latest of these was the first performance in the United Kingdom (1996) of 'Concerto for Accordion and Orchestra' (Ivor Hodgson) with the Manchester Camarata Symphony Orchestra.
He has continued to enhance his international reputation by touring Japan, France, China, Spain, Finland, Italy, Sweden, Portugal, Denmark, Switzerland, Norway, Yugoslavia, Belgium and Poland.In addition he has given Master Classes at the Royal Academies of Music in London, Copenhagen and Antwerp. Also he has been invited to International Accordion Seminars in Barcelona, Tokyo as well as in Finland, Norway, China and Poland. Oleg Sharov has be asked to adjudicate at Competitions at Coup Mondiale (1995), Trofeo Mondiale (1990) and Grand Prix (1991, 1994 and 1997). He continues to organise two International Accordion Festivals each year in St. Petersburg.
He has transcribed several classical pieces for the free base accordion including "The Blue Danube" (Johann Strauss), Hungarian Rhapsody Nos 2 &14 (F.Listz), Gothic Suit (L.Boelman) and several Russian melodies.His concert repertoire includes music from Baroque to Avantgarde. (Vivaldi, J.S.Bach, Listz, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Repnikov, Banchikov and Olczak). He is regarded by his peers as one of the most accomplished 'Free Bass' accordionists in the world today.In 1985 he was awarded the title of "Honour Artist of the Russian Republic."
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