Studied accordion at Arlington Academy of Music from 1957 to 1963. Stopped playing for a number of years and started playing again in the mid 1990’s. Studied accordion with Paul Monte from 2011 to 2016. Participated in an all accordion band at Arlington Academy of Music. Participated in an after-school music program with teachers and…

At about age 10 my older brother showed me how to play a song on the accordion, and I liked playing it so much that I began to learn others on my own. It wasn’t until many years later that I took lessons and learned to read music and many of the fundamentals that I…

I took accordion lessons as a kid in Montreal (my father loved the instrument) but I put is aside when my family moved back to my parents native Greece. Fast forward 20 or so years I brought it back to the US on a trip home at my mother’s urging. A few years ago during…

Prior RUK Accordion Orchestra member. Lynda Fish owns Keyboard for Kids in North Attleboro MA, where she has been teaching enthusiastic boys and girls how to play the piano for almost forty years. She received her Bachelor of Science in Music Education with honors from Rhode Island College. Her extensive teaching history includes art and…

Began playing at age 10 at Hollis Music in East Boston. Took private lessons with Louis Bregoli at Tosi Music in the North End of Boston. Played as the accompanist for the Italian Folk Group representing the Italian Heritage of the Abruzzo region of Italy and led “Omni”, a four-piece “wedding band” through the 80’s…

Fred Brewer started taking accordion lessons as a teenager with Ralph Fontes in Brocton, MA. He later taught beginning students in Mr. Fonte’s studio. After college, he studied Classical Pipe Organ and is an active member of the Southeastern MA Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. Fred is the Organist for Trinity Episcopal Church,…

I started playing the accordion around age 7 in East Boston, later studied with Frank Gaviani until about age 15. Basically put the accordion away and 50 years later, after retiring from a career in medicine, I picked it up again and studied with Paul Monte for 2 years. I now enjoy playing daily and…

At the age of 7-8 I began accordion lessons in Salem, Ma with Elda Angelucci. My mother had agreed to let me take lessons because my seven older siblings had taken lessons on a variety of classical instruments but easily dropped them. Therefore, when I asked about the ‘strange-looking instrument’ at an antique store, my…

Joe began learning and playing the accordion at Lo Duca Brothers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he took weekly lessons from age 9 through 18. Lo Duca was a very large studio which taught up to 1,000 accordion students per week and also designed and manufactured accordions. The School encouraged students to participate in the annual…

David Rukhelman started playing button accordion (bajan) at age nine in Kiev, Ukraine. He took private lessons for two years and then entered the Music School. In 1965 he was accepted into the most prominent music school in the Soviet Union – Gnessins Music College in Moscow. After receiving his Bachelor Degree from the Gnessins…