Guy Klucevsek is one of the world’s most versatile and highly-respected accordionists.

This outstanding composer, accordion virtuoso, and improvisor has been a major contributor to the accordion renaissance of the last 25 years. His music reverberates with sounds of the ballroom, the beer garden and the concert hall, fusing elements of regional accordion styles with jazz and avant-garde music.

Forget everything you thought you knew about the accordion.

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Performances, releases, news

Guy Klucevsek and Volker Goetze: Little Big Top

NOV. 6, 2024, 8PM: Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn (corner of Third Ave), NY

In 2022, trumpeter Volker Goetze commissioned fellow Staten Island musician, composer/accordionst Guy Klucevsek, to compose and arrange music to accompany the visit of Little Amal Walks to Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island. They formed an ad hoc quartet with Jeff Hudgins and Doug Wieselman for the event. A year later, Goetz raised additional funds for Klucevsek to create more material and the quartet reunited for a concert performance at the Newhouse Center at Snug Harbor, preceded by a week of recording at Casa Klucevsek. This is their first performance outside of Staten Island, to coincide with the release of their debut recording, “Little Big Top,” on Motéma Music. Klucevsek’s eclectic, wide-ranging music pays tribute to Nino Rota, Rufus Reid, Kurt Weill, Ethiopian pop music, carousel music, the circus; genre music including the blues, hymn, waltz, tango, ballad and polka; and balkan folk music. He has performed at Roulette numerous times, starting in the early 1980s.

Vignettes: Short Pieces for Accordion

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Dec. 1. 2023: HOPE DIES LAST Digital-Only Release

Starkland releases my latest album, "Hope Dies Last," in digital-only version (with booklet).

Performers include accordionists Bachtopus (Robert Duncan, Peter Flynn, Mayumi Miyaoki, Jeanne Velonis), Alan Bern, Will Holshouser, and myself; Jenny Lin on piano, Todd Reynolds on violin, and the LA-based violin/cello duo, The Smudges (Jeff Gauthier, Margaret Parkins); with a vocal cameo by Jerome Kitzke. New works 2015-2021, plus a new arrangement of a work from 1988.

Available to download from Starkland.bandcamp.com

AMAL QUARTET

Oct. 7, 2023, 7 PM: Concert of original music by Guy Klucevsek performed by the Amal Quartet: Volker Goetz, trumpet and fluegelhorn, Jeff Hudgins, alto saxophone and voice, Doug Wieselman, clarinet and bass clarinet, Guy Klucevsek, accordion and compositions. Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Newhouse Gallery, Staten Island https://snug-harbor.org/event/2023-newhouse-after-dark-the-amal-quartet/ To purchase tickets in advance: https://snugharbor.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0S8V00000UtoG6UAJ

Steinway Record Release

Release of "Kancheli: Simple Music," Jenny Lin, piano, Guy Klucevsek, accordion

Score: Breathless and Bewildered

BREATHLESS AND BEWILDERED (2009), (For Ivan Milev), for solo accordion (standard bass)

Breathless Solo - Score

Score: Awakening

AWAKENING (1987) for free bass accordion

Awakening.41 key version

Score: Bandoneons, Basil and Bay Leaves

BANDONEONS, BASIL AND BAY LEAVES (1993) for free bass accordion

(in memory of Astor Piazzolla)

Bandoneons, Basil, & Bay Leaves

Score: Three Tributes

THREE TRIBUTES (2016), for Solo Accordion (standard bass)

(commissioned by the American Accordionists' Association)

Walter Ballad of Faithe Evan-essence

Score: My Walk with Ligeti