Joan Cochran Sommers is an accordion player and conductor from Kansas City, Missouri. Cochran Sommers' first accordion was acquired from a door-to-door salesman.[1] She founded the accordion program at the University of Missouri- Kansas City in 1961, where she taught until she retired in 2000.[1][2] She was named an honorary member of the Confédération Internationale des Accordéonistes in 2014.[3][4]
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edit- 1 2 L'Esperance, Christy; Wisman, Sam; Martin, Luke X. (2024-07-22). "Meet the 90-year-old woman who made Kansas City 'an accordion town'". 91.9 Classical KC. Retrieved 2026-02-27.
- ↑ "Prof. Joan Cochran Sommers – Consummate musician, educator, arranger and conductor, Article by Joan Grauman, AAA Historian". www.ameraccord.com. Retrieved 2026-02-27.
- ↑ "Members of Confédération Internationale des Accordéonistes (CIA), founded 1935". www.accordions.com. Retrieved 2026-02-27.
- ↑ Caudre, Salanieta (2014-12-01). "Joan Cochran Sommers Voted CIA Honorary Member Award - Austria". Accordion USA. Retrieved 2026-02-27.
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