CWA Photo Gallery

Here are some pictures from previous events:
The 3rd World Cimbalom Congress:1995:Bratislava, Slovakia.
The 4th World Cimbalom Congress:1997:Belarus
The 5th World Cimbalom Congress:1999
The 6th World Cimbalom Congress:2001:
The 7th World Cimbalom Congress:2003:Appenzell, Switzerland.
-- Photo Album | Nat's Photo Diary
The 8th World Cimbalom Congress:2005:Beijing, China
-- Photo Album | Junko's Photo Diary

Belarus - a selection of players from Belarus
Germany - a selection of players from Germany

Most pictures come from the 3rd World Congress in 1993 in Bratislava, Slovakia, or the 4th World Congress in 1995 in Mogilev, Belarus.

The fullset of pictures is listed below. Click on the link to see the image described.
Note - most images are less than 20K.

1. Jenny Coxon from U.K. performs in the UK concert (1997)
2. Close-up of a mexican salterio.
3. Olga Mischula (Belarus), Kalman Balogh (Hungary), Michael Mantz (Belgium) and Paul Gifford (USA) play Hungarian czardas together (1997). (47K)
4. Everyone joins in on stage for the final tune of the final concert (1997) (43K).
5. Mme and Herr Fuchs dance as their son plays (Switzerland) (1997) (31K)
6. The Chinese performers wait to be announced (1997)
7. A close up of a cimbalom (1997)
8. A demonstration of how the Belarus tsymbal hammers are held. (1997)
9. A demonstration of how the yang quin is played (1997)
10. Johann Fuchs performs on Appenzeller hackbrett (Switzerland) in full costume (1997)
11. A crowd gathers round the yangchin after the Singapore /China Concert (1997)
12. Chinese performer from Singapore dazzles with her prowess. (1997)
13. Performers at the Czech concert take a bow (1997)
14. Close-up of Michael Manz (Belgium) playing the cimbalom (1997)
15. Close-upÝ of Kalman Balogh (Hungary) (1997)
16. Eugene Gladkov (Belarus) performs with his student, two on one instrument! (1997)
17. Close-up of CWA president Viktoria Herencsar playing the cimbalom (1997).
18. Paul Gifford (USA) speaks at the Congress, with interpreter, Olga (1997)
19. One of the youngest performers at the Congress from China is dwarfed by her instrument! (1997)
20. A duo of Schickhaus's students perform at the German concert (1995)
21. Gillian Alcock and Jackie Luke (Australia) perform world premiere of 'Sol' by J. Clingan at the Gala concert (1995).
22. Professor Karl Heinz Schickhaus (German Hackbrett) performs during the German concert (1995)
23. Rudi Zapf (Germany) performs during the German concert (1995)
24. Five or more cimbalom players join in an improvised sessionof Hungarian dances during the Hungarian concert (1995)
25. New made friends from Japan, Holland and U.K. gather in a cellar restaurant to listen to & play cimbalom (1995)
26. A group of young Belarussian girls perform an arrangement of Russian Classics (1995)
27. Gillian Alcock from Australia has a go on a demonstration cimbalom (1995)
28. The Litwins group from Belarus perform in traditional costume. (Good close-up of traditional Belarussian tsymbaly) (1995).