Accordion Hub

A masterclass with Goran Stevanović. Repertoire, extended techniques, and the realities of working as a contemporary accordionist.

Duration 7 days

Participants 3

Mentor Goran Stevanović

Location Mijakovići

The programme

Practice room at Zvjezdane Staze — The Space

A week of focused work: individual lessons, group sessions, time to practice. Three participants, one mentor.

Bosnia has a living accordion tradition: the instrument is present in concert halls and village celebrations alike. This programme draws on that proximity.

Programme structure

The programme divides into two methodically distinct but intertwined areas of work:

Repertoire Lab

At the centre is interpretive work on self-chosen repertoire: the sounding realisation of compositional intention. Which articulation serves the harmonic structure? How does the bellows relate to phrasing? What freedoms does the score open, what does it foreclose?

In parallel, contemporary extended techniques (drone tones, vocal integration, reed box manipulation) expand the instrument's sonic range. Improvisation sessions complement the work on notated repertoire. The pieces developed during the week are presented at the closing concert.

Career Lab

The second strand addresses the structural and practical conditions of a musical career. Concert planning and programming, recording and label research, festival applications, press and media relations are treated as integral to artistic professionalism.

Mentor

Goran Stevanović

Accordionist · Hannover

Goran Stevanović’s repertoire extends from early music to contemporary works, including collaborations with George Lewis, Aleksandra Vrebalov, and Markus Stockhausen. Performances include Bruckner Festival Linz, Young Euro Classics Berlin, and solo appearances with NDR Radiophilharmonie. He founded the concert series melaTONin and the multimedia project Circling Realities.