"New Melody Everyday of the Year" (022).
Merry rag (R. Bazhilin). "Accodemia" Trio
With significant meeting St. Petersburg Musette Ensemble (Russia) and the Daugavpils Accordion Orchestra (Latvia) at the festival in Fredericia (Denmark) in 1995 began a groups' creative friendship which continues today. In 2003, a trio of soloists of St. Petersburg Musette ensemble, named the Trio "Accodemia" (consisting of: Svetlana Stavitskaya, Sergei Likhachov and Vladimir Ushakov) performed in Daugavpils accompanied by accordion orchestra under direction of Valery Hodukin. The musicians presented their version of the ragtime "Merry rag" written by popular Russian composer Roman Bazhilin.