| Cory Pesaturo | |
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At a Festival in 2008 |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Rhode Island |
| Genres | Various |
| Instruments | Accordion, Piano, Clarinet, Saxophone |
| Website | www.CoryPesaturo.com |
Cory Pesaturo is an American musician from Rhode Island. Pesaturo is an accordion player, who also plays the piano, clarinet, and saxophone. He began playing at the age of nine, and in 2002, became the youngest person to win the National Accordion Championship.[1] He most recently won the 2011 Primus Ikaalinen World Championship, broadcast on National TV, and was the first American contestant.[2] Additionally, Pesaturo won the Coupe Mondiale World Digital Accordion Championship in Auckland, New Zealand, and became the first American to win a World Accordion Championship since Peter Soave 25 years ago.[3] In June 2009, he won the Leavenworth International Championship, and International Jazz Championship. Pesaturo performed in 5 different continents during 2009; some countries included Canada, Italy, New Zealand, Tunisia and Japan. Cory is now the very first accordionist in history to win a World Championship on both acoustic and electronic accordion.
After Graduating from Cumberland High School, he was accepted on the accordion at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA[4] where he studied Contemporary Improvisation and a variety of music styles, including Italian and French folk music, Bulgarian and Jewish music, Classical music and Jazz. He became the second person to major in and graduate as an accordionist at the New England Conservatory.[5]
Pesaturo performs live, playing the accordion, piano, clarinet and saxophone. His past performances have included filling in for an ill Myron Floren, the accordionist on The Lawrence Welk Show at the age of 12, performing on four occasions at the White House, and playing at six other public events and private functions for President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. In 1999 he performed at a State dinner held for the President of Hungary.[6]
In 2008, Roland named Pesaturo as part of their team of four American accordionists which will promote Roland's V-Accordion to try and bring the accordion itself back to its former fame.[7] Pesaturo performed for Roland at the Music Trade show NAMM in 2009 and was featured with Eddie Montiero , backed by pianist Rick DePiro and drummer Mike Snyder in a Concert for international press and NAMM dignitaries . Pesaturo has also performed with different symphony orchestras around the country, including the Brockton Symphony Orchestra in 2003.[8]
Pesaturo is also heavily involved with meteorology, even though he holds no formal meteorological qualifications. He has compiled statistics for weather events such as what occurred in the Mid-Atlantic during the 2009-2010 winter.[9] He also compiled the lists of records set by the hurricane seasons of 2005, 2007, and 2008.[10]
His music has been played for various Formula 1 races on SPEED TV starting in 2007, on the Velocity_(TV_channel) program "Chasing Classic Cars", and also at various Concours around the United States ranging from the Newport Concours d'Elegance and the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
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