Eva Ybarra plays her accordion with such passion that it can feel like fury. Smashing the instrument’s buttons and stretching her arms out wide, then quickly contracting, Ybarra bends air to produce ...

Since she was 6 years old, Maria Telesheva was destined to be on stage. Born and raised in Eugene, Telesheva grew up watching her father, Sergei Teleshev, perform as a world class accordion player.

Joan Cochran Sommers speaks during an Accordion Orchestra performance during the 1960s. Cochran Sommers established in 1961 an accordion program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory, ...