Current student Ksenija Sidorova’s recent successes have included performances at the Lucerne Chamber Music Festival with the guitarist Miloš Karadaglic. Her recording of Mozart’s Twelve Variations is featured on the Academy’s release ‘Premier Prix: celebrating the virtuoso’.
Current student Rafal Luc gave a concert tour in the USA, including performances at Berkeley College and Carnegie Hall. He was also a recent finalist in the Royal Academy of Music Patrons’ Award, held in Wigmore Hall, and reached the chamber music section final of the Royal Over-Seas League.
Current student Martynas Levickis won the piano accordion soloists’ section at the CIA Coupe Mondiale (World Accordion Championships) in Varaždin, Croatia
Former student Amadej Herzog won the R.A.M. Club Prize, giving a prize winner’s recital in April 2011.
Accordion students take part in many festival concerts both in the UK and abroad.
In December 2010, Owen Murray became the first Briton to be awarded the prestigious ‘Silver Disk’ for special accomplishments in the field of accordion culture.
