Casual Concert:
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Three-time world accordion champion Cory Pesaturo comes to Opus Nova with a fresh perspective on one of music’s most distinctive instruments. The only musician to win world championships on acoustic, digital, and jazz accordion, Pesaturo has built a career around expanding the instrument’s possibilities.
His music moves freely between jazz, folk, classical, contemporary music, and improvisation, combining virtuosic technique with a highly individual approach to the accordion. Rather than treating the instrument as belonging to a single musical tradition, Pesaturo uses it as a vehicle for exploration, improvisation, and unexpected musical connections.
For Opus Nova, Pesaturo brings an instrument rarely heard in the chamber-music setting and a program that challenges expectations of what an accordion concert can be. Expect virtuosic playing, improvisation, and a fresh take on an instrument you may think you already know.
This Casual Concert on April 25th at 7 PM will be held at Avoca Coffee Roasters (Foch St.). Doors open at 6:30 PM, with hand-crafted coffee and snacks available for purchase. Sip on perfection while enjoying high-level classical music in a laid-back environment! Tickets are $25 for adults and $5 for students.
Three-time world accordion champion Cory Pesaturo comes to Opus Nova with a fresh perspective on one of music’s most distinctive instruments. The only musician to win world championships on acoustic, digital, and jazz accordion, Pesaturo has built a career around expanding the instrument’s possibilities.
His music moves freely between jazz, folk, classical, contemporary music, and improvisation, combining virtuosic technique with a highly individual approach to the accordion. Rather than treating the instrument as belonging to a single musical tradition, Pesaturo uses it as a vehicle for exploration, improvisation, and unexpected musical connections.
For Opus Nova, Pesaturo brings an instrument rarely heard in the chamber-music setting and a program that challenges expectations of what an accordion concert can be. Expect virtuosic playing, improvisation, and a fresh take on an instrument you may think you already know.
This Casual Concert on April 25th at 7 PM will be held at Avoca Coffee Roasters (Foch St.). Doors open at 6:30 PM, with hand-crafted coffee and snacks available for purchase. Sip on perfection while enjoying high-level classical music in a laid-back environment! Tickets are $25 for adults and $5 for students.
Musicians
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Cory Pesaturo (“C Pez”) is revolutionizing the Accordion. The only person to ever win the trio of World Championships on Acoustic, Digital & Jazz Accordion. A Guinness World Record Breaker, and the only Accordion graduate of the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. His performances at all 3 of his World Championships were played on accordions that were not his, and were almost completely improvised; both aspects being unheard of in the accordion world. Pesaturo has performed on 6 continents and given 5 TED Talks, an EG Talk and 2 Google Talks about the accordion, its history, and place in music. “CPez” as he is known, most prominently and recently had the honor of opening up the 2024 Election, performing the National Anthem at midnight on worldwide TV in Dixville Notch, NH, site of the first counted votes in the nation.
Pesaturo's extensive resumé includes appearances at the White House for President and Mrs. Clinton on 4 different occasions, starting at age 12, and 8 other appearances for the Clintons. On one of those occasions, he became the youngest person to ever perform at a State Dinner, that for the President of Hungary, a Record he still holds. In 2017, Cory broke the Guinness World Record for the Marathon Accordion Record, as the RedBull® Formula 1 Team flew him to Austria, in which Cory played for over 32 hours. Some National TV appearances include the Late Show with David Letterman, performing with Johnny Depp, CBS’s Let’s Make a Deal, Fox News’s Fox and Friends (where he also did the weather), and NBC’ That’s My Jam with Jimmy Fallon. His Viral Video on Chopin and Jazz with Nahre Sol has been viewed over 9 Million Times. Pesaturo has also appeared on nationally televised programs in New Zealand, England, Canada, Italy, Tunisia, France, Saudi Arabia and Finland. On an NYC broadcast, CNBC/FOX host Maria Bartiromo once said “No one is currently doing more for the Accordion than Cory”. He has judged accordion competitions across 5 continents, in addition to other music competitions, and currently gives masterclasses at various universities throughout the US & Europe on Accordion & Improvisation, including his own “CPez Academy”. His iconic flamed & lighted accordion was even used as the logo for the 2018 Cotati Festival, the biggest in the continent. In 2022, Cory was chosen as the featured accordionist in the Weird Al BIOPIC Movie “Weird”, and in 2023 he was chosen to create a band and perform on the NAMM Show’s prestigious Main Grand Plaza Stage. He is a friend of multiple Presidents around the world, and with Racing Legend Mario Andretti, whom he completed another World Record in at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2022, playing while Mario drove 180mph in a 2-seater IndyCar. Along with improvisation, Pesaturo is known for his extensive versatility, consistently playing between 15 different genres from Klezmer to French, Tango to Rock, Italian to Bazilian, Classical Music to Electronic. More known as a Jazz Artist, he has earned the respect of those such as Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock and Wynton Marsalis, and recorded & performed with jazz figures such as John Patitucci and George Garzone. CPez is a regular artist at Los Angeles’ famed Vibrato Jazz Club, both for his own concerts, and sitting in with a wide variety of artists. For his Classical side which is lesser known, a win in a concerto competition at 16 years old gave Cory the rare opportunity to perform with the Brockton Symphony as a featured soloist, where he became the youngest accordionist to ever solo with a symphony orchestra in the USA. He regularly performs with the Boston Symphony and Pops at Symphony Hall, when an accordion is needed, including once under John Williams. The instruments most famous legend in the US, Dick Contino, said of Cory when he was only 15, “Of all the accordionists I’ve seen over the years, Cory is the one to pass the torch to, the only one who has all the tools to bring the accordion back to its former glory.” Guido Deiro’s son, the “Father of Piano Accordion”, has stated “I’ve worried greatly about the future of the accordion since my father died, but not anymore since seeing & hearing Cory.” Pesaturo is also the Western Hemisphere Face of the new KORG Fisa Accordion in 2024. Pesaturo is also heavily involved and respected within the weather and motor sports worlds as well. He composed the Official list of records set by the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, and has done reports on Winter Seasons for the US which have been featured on Accuweather.com and others. In sports, he has written columns for car magazines such as MESH, sports blogs for sites like Bleacher Report, and has collaborated with members of the Red Sox. His music has been played on Formula 1 broadcasts on NBC and FOX. |
Location
Avoca Coffee Roasters (Foch St Store)
835 Foch St, Fort Worth, TX 76107
835 Foch St, Fort Worth, TX 76107