Martynas Levickis

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The accordion is probably most closely identified with folk music from Eastern Europe and South America, but the young Lithuanian virtuoso Martynas Levickis aims to prove that it can make all kinds of music, everywhere. His debut album on Decca is a riotous ride through a rainbow of styles, all of them artfully tailored and arranged to show off Martynas’s brilliant playing. From Beethoven to Vivaldi, Ennio Morricone to Lady Gaga, he takes the accordion around the world and back and forth across the centuries. “Yes, I want to change the image of the accordion”, Martynas explains, “but I’m also trying to show all the different possibilities I have as a performer. All the arrangements are brand new and the pieces have never been played this way before. It’s exciting for me to be breaking some rules.” Martynas recently completed his degree at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and has acquired all the knowledge and technical expertise of a professional classical musician, but he sees classical music as just one part of his personal mix. “At some point in my career I want to record an album of modern accordion compositions. But my new album is contemporary music too, just from a different angle.” In 2010, while he was still studying at the Royal Academy, Martynas won the “Lithuania’s Got Talent” TV show and became a household name in his homeland. He could easily have built a comfortable performing career for himself there, but ever since one of his teachers back home told hi

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Martynas

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Autograph

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Piazzolla: Aconcagua & Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas

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iAccordion

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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

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Intro Musica (Carl Maria Von Weber, Astor Piazzolla, Antanas Kučinskas) (2 CD)

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Milonga (feat. Lauren Carter)

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Tango Pour Cloude (feat. Lauren Carter)

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Piazzolla: Aconcagua Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas

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Instrumental

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Unlimited - Greatest Hits (Deluxe Version)

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Suena el Bandoneón

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