Marcello Maio is an Australian jazz pianist and composer. A student at

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from 2003, Maio was the

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...

player on the television variety show ''

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'' (2005–2006), during which he communicated with the host through his instrument. He is keyboardist in the jazz band SEXION, a member of gypsy-jazz fusion band,

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, and experimental

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band,

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. He has won the National Accordion Championships for three years (2001–2003) in both

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and solo performance sections.

Early years

Marcello Maio attended St Mary's Cathedral College and became proficient in

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

and

piano accordion A piano accordion is an accordion equipped with a right-hand keyboard similar to a piano or organ. Its acoustic mechanism is more that of an organ than a piano, as they are both aerophones, but the term "piano accordion"—coined by Guido Deir ...

before becoming a student at

studying

from 2003.

References

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