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MOTION TRIO TAKES THE ACCORDION OUT FOR A SPIN
MOTION TRIO TAKES THE ACCORDION OUT FOR A SPIN
Date Posted: October 24 2011
Written By: Chicago Jazz
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If you think you know what accordion music sounds like, hold onto your hat! Motion Trio — Janusz Wojtarowicz, Pawel Baranek, and Marcin Galazyn — is a group of Polish accordion players who take their music to places it has never gone before.
Motion Trio will be in the Chicago area Saturday Oct. 29 for one concert at Nichols Hall in Evanston. The group will play some of the music that has made it an international sensation.
Both individually and as a group, the classically trained musicians of Motion Trio have won a clutch of awards for excellence in playing their instrument, which is often associated in the public mind with folk music and street performers. Playing custom-built, extended-range Piginis — "the Rolls-Royce of accordions," according to Wojtarowicz, the group's leader — Motion Trio is determined to expand that perception.
Motion Trio was tapped to perform last year at a festival devoted to the music of Frederick Chopin in Nantes. The group has interpreted the music of other Polish composers as well, including Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki and Wojciech Kilar. The British composer Michael Nyman collaborated with the group on an album, "Acoustic Accordions," and the members of Motion Trio also compose their own music.
“Using our imagination and sense of humor, we work to create a new sound,” says Wojtarowicz of the group he founded 15 years ago. “We don’t use any electronic effects, just the pure acoustic accordion's sound."
For information, contact Up to Sound, (773) 415-4910, www.uptosound.com.
WHAT: Motion Trio in concert
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Saturday Oct. 29
WHERE: Nichols Hall, 1490 Chicago Ave. Evanston
TICKETS: $50.00, Students: $40, Children and Seniors: $35
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