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Lynn Ewing was born and
raised in San Diego,
California,
where she started playing accordion at age seven. As a young adult, Lynn taught at the Robert Mitchell
Accordion School,
where she directed five accordion bands and gave accordion lessons to
over a
hundred young children. She received her certification in the Orff
Method of
Music instruction from Mills
College, and
was the
music specialist at El Granada Elementary school for seven years.
Currently Lynn
teaches private
accordion students, and performs with two accordion ensembles, the
San Francisco Accordion
Chamber Ensemble (ACE) and AbsolutAccord.
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Marian
Kelly grew up in Northampton, Massachusetts where, at the time,
there was a great deal of accordion interest. She
joined the orchestra of and taught for the Pizzitola
Music Studios,
which provided many rewarding experiences along with a bit of income
and became
kind of a second home. Her current
accordion interests include teaching, participating in the San
Francisco Accordion
Chamber
Ensemble (ACE), playing the bass-accordion in AbsolutAccord, schmoozing
with her many accordion friends
and
helping at least a few folks in the general public appreciate the
variety of
musical treats, which an accordion can provide.
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David Perry studied
accordion from ages six to seventeen, most of that time with
Ernst Gloe
who taught music at the California Conservatory of Music and at California State
University, East Bay.
David played the clarinet for many years in various groups throughout
the San Francisco
Bay Area but the accordion sat unused in the closet for forty-eight
years. In
the spring of 2008, David crossed paths with a member of the San
Francisco
Accordion Chamber Ensemble (ACE) who invited him
to join that organization
and David now performs with ACE and AbsolutAccord.
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Joe Simoni has
been playing accordion for almost fifty years and has studied with San Francisco’s own Michael Corino and Professor
Giovanni
Vitale, an accomplished and highly respected accordion instructor from Lucca, Italy.
Joe is the leader of the JPS Band, which has been entertaining
audiences from Napa to Monterey.
Joe is also proud and honored to be one of the three original
accordionists in
AbsolutAccord.
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Sharon Walters
Greyhosky began
playing the accordion at age six. Sharon studied with (and taught in
the studio of) Orlando Meni-Ketti, and later studied for several years
with Ernst Gloe. Sharon is a
member of
the San Francisco Accordion
Chamber Ensemble (ACE), plays with the San Francisco Cabaret Opera
Company and
accompanies poetry presenters at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley. Sharon
is a member of the Accordionists and Teachers Guild; she resides and
teaches
accordion
in San Francisco.
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Richard Yaus studied with
the German accordion virtuoso Georg
Schwenk, while winning music competitions in the solo, duo and
orchestra
categories during the 1980’s and 90’s. Richard attended conducting
classes held
at the conservatory in Munich and in Trossingen, led his own accordion
orchestra, played accordion parts in opera and musical theater in and
around
Munich, and later joined his teacher’s accordion ensemble and
orchestra. The
avid accordionist founded AbsolutAccord nine years ago using
many of
his
teacher’s arrangements. Richard recently performed music by Astor
Piazzolla as part of the chamber music series with the Palo Alto
Philharmonic, and with the Redwood Symphony in Shostakovich's Suite for
Variety Orchestra.
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Norma Zonay-Parsons is originally
from Southern California.
Norma has entertained since her teens, was lead singer and accordionist
touring
with her own trio for a number of years, playing in clubs, shows and
radio.
Norma teamed for several years in a violin/accordion duo with a noted
violin
impresario in Salt Lake City,
doing POPS Concerts and a weekly variety TV show. Norma now teaches in
her
studio in San Jose
and performs with Bellows and Bow, a violin/accordion duo, and with
AbsolutAccord.
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