Who is DENIS NOVATO, diatonic accordion World Champion

In 1998 Denis won the World Champion on the Diatonic Accordion title, which helped him change his life and career path - from working for customs and transport company as a Commercial Academy graduate - to becoming a full time musician.

With all the music-related activities Denis does, we could hardly mark him as anything but a very accomplished musician. However, Novato seems to be most famous for his performance on his favorite instrument - as virtuoso of diatonic harmonic.

Virtuosity defined: A virtuoso (from Italian virtuoso, late Latin virtuosus, Latin virtus meaning: skill, manliness, excellence) is an individual who possesses outstanding technical ability at singing or playing a musical instrument. The plural form is either virtuosi or the Anglicisation, virtuosos, and the feminine form sometimes used is virtuosa. Virtuosi are often musical composers as well.

In Music in the Western World by Piero Weiss and Richard Taruskin we find the following definition of virtuoso:

"...a virtuoso was, originally, a highly accomplished musician, but by the nineteenth century the term had become restricted to performers, both vocal and instrumental, whose technical accomplishments were so pronounced as to dazzle the public."

The defining element of virtuosity is the performance ability of the musician in question, who is capable of displaying feats of skill well above the average performer.