Accordion

Specific admission criteria for Accordion

In addition to the general admission criteria, there are also specific instrumental requirements. During the audition, you will perform at least one étude and a recital piece, unless indicated otherwise. The pieces mentioned are merely examples. You can also opt for other works of a similar level.

The audition can be performed on any of the usual types of manual accordion:

• a piano accordion;
• a button accordion (B or C system).

We recommend that you are already playing on a free bass system instrument.

Your performing skills and musicality will be tested on the basis of:

• Études such as:
  -Siegfried Borris: Acht Studien für Akkordeon
  -James Wilson: Fourteen Rhythmic Studies
  -Helmut Quakernack: More Finger Jogging
  -Various composers: Gradus ad Parnassum
• Polyphony such as:
  -Torbjörn Lundquist: Neun zweistimmige Inventionen
  -Johann Sebastian Bach: 15 zweistimmige Inventionen (the Urtext edition)
  -Wolfgang Jacobi: 10 Polyphone Stücke nach Spanischen Volksliedern
  -Horst-Peter Hesse: Polyphones Spielbuch, Volume II (Baroque/arrangements)
  -Mogens Ellegaard: Polyphones Spielbuch, Volume IV (Baroque/arrangements)
• Recital pieces such as:
  -Torbjörn Lundquist: Miscellaneous
  -Torbjörn Lundquist: Microscope
  -Béla Bartók: Mikrokosmos, Parts 2 and 3
  -Astor Piazzolla, arr. H.G. Kölz: Akkordeon Pur-serie