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Pesaturo's career is marked by several accomplishments in the world of accordion music, setting records, and winning championships across both acoustic and digital platforms. In 2009, he won the Coupe Mondiale World Digital Accordion Championship in Auckland , New Zealand , and became the first American to win a World Accordion Championship ...
In 1981 New England Digital pioneered the recording of digital audio to hard disk with the introduction of their Sample-To-Disk option. Their software module known as SFM (Signal File Manager) was popular among the academic world for research and analysis of audio. The SFM also found use in the US Military for the analysis of submarine sounds.
The first female accordion virtuoso to play an accordion concerto with accompaniment from a full symphony orchestra was Adeline Marie Mantino (later Rogillio), shortly following her graduation from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1950. The symphony was the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra.
[37] [38] [39] His refined poetic artistry gained respect for the free bass accordion as a serious concert instrument among prominent classical musicians and conductors of the early 20th century. [40] In addition, his Concerto For Free Bass Accordion was completed in 1966 and illustrates the vast orchestral potentialities of the instrument.
The mission of New England String Ensemble is to "engage, educate, and inspire with passionate string orchestra performances and innovative community programs." [ 2 ] Initially starting with a String Competition in 1996, the New England String Ensemble's educational programs have expanded to support four community initiatives for students in ...
A digital accordion is an electronic musical instrument that uses the control features of a traditional accordion (bellows, bass buttons for the left hand, and a small piano-style keyboard (or buttons) for the right hand, and register switches) to trigger a digital sound module that produces synthesized or digitally sampled accordion sounds or ...
He has performed with most major symphony orchestras in the U.S, including The Kirov, has been performing with the New York Philharmonic for 45 years, has a long performing and recording relationship with the Minnesota Orchestra, virtually every chamber group in New York, The Met and City Opera as well as with rock (most notably Tom Waits), jazz (most notably Ted Nash's Odeon and The Jazz at ...
2002–11, Petric / Forget Duo: accordion and oboe, works ancient and new [1] [35] 1999–Present, Bellows and Brass: trio for accordion, trombonist Alain Trudel , and triple instrumentalist and actor Guy Few; commissioned works, theatrical creations, multi-media works, live video and interactive electronics, new and ancient music [ 36 ] [ 18 ...