Scottish classical Accordionist Paul Chamberlain has just released his debut solo CD of classical accordion music. It features a mixture of transcriptions of works by J.S. Bach, Rameau, Moszkowski and Kachaturian, as well as original works by Alexander Nagayev and Franck Angelis.

The CD is available to order directly from www.theaccordionist.com and is also available as a download from all good digital music retailers such as Itunes, Amazon and Napster.

Paul was the first classical accordionist to gain a BMus from the Royal Scottish Aacademy of Music and Drama. (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) He is a highly accomplished player and his current title of UK Virtuoso Champion is testimony to his breadth of skills across many competitions in both classical and Scottish music styles. With appearances at music festivals around Europe and live television performances in Russia he has also performed in France, Italy, Greece, Finland and Bahrain.

Born in Scotland in 1981, Paul was immersed in a wealth of music from a very early age. Over the last ten years he has developed his performance technique on the instrument with his inspiring teacher Djordje Gajic and also through master-classes with experts such as Owen Murray, Peter Soave and Jean-Louis Norton. Paul is now embarking on the MMus course at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow, and has just released his debut solo album of classical accordion music. In 2010 he was Highly Commended for his performance in the Tony and Tania Webster Prize for rare Russian music, and he was winner of the acclaimed Governors Recital Prize. He was also one of the keyboard section finalists in the 2011 Royal Overseas League competition. Paul is an active concert performer and is also one quarter of “The Scottish Tango Ensemble”.