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Opus 48 Post Festival Newsletter – On The Wings Of Peace
Maestro`s Letter to the Audience 2022
Maestro`s Letter to the Audience 2022
iPalpiti Returns to Live Performances in a Heartbeat
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2021 iPALPITI FESTIVAL PRESS RELEASE
2021 iPalpiti Festival Press Release 2021 iPalpiti Festival SFCV Article
iPalpiti Soloists Play Rare Chamber Music_2019 Festival_SFCV review
iPalpiti Soloists Play Rare Chamber Music
iPalpiti Transforms “Kreutzer”_2019 Festival grand finale at DisneyHall_SFCV review
iPalpiti Transforms “Kreutzer”
Maestro`s Letter to the Audience
Maestro`s Letter to the Audience
2019 iPALPITI FESTIVAL PRESS RELEASE & SCHEDULE
2019 PRESS RELEASE
Francisco’s Letter
International Musicians Create Harmony Through Music … – VOA News
International Musicians Create Harmony Through Music… – VOA News
2018 KUSC Interview
iPalpiti Tries to Open Hearts and Heal Souls Through Music -KUSC Interview
Chairman’s Festival Greetings
Chairman’s Festival Greetings
2018 iPALPITI FESTIVAL PRESS RELEASE & SCHEDULE
2018 PRESS RELEASE
“iPalpiti fest beats strong” (Los Angeles Times / July 19, 2017)
LA Times feature on July 19, 2017:
2017 iPALPITI FESTIVAL PRESS RELEASE & SCHEDULE
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Los Angeles Times Review 2016
Russian conductor Eduard Schmieder leads the iPalpiti Orchestra of International Laureates in a concert Saturday at Walt Disney Concert Hall. (Dana Ross) Rick Schultz July 24, 2016 3:45pm Of all the death-haunted composers in history, Schubert and Mahler stand close to the top. Some of their most compelling music in...
Alumnus Juan-Miguel Hernandez speaks about iPalpiti
Almanac Panorama [Russian national weekly] review
We would like to offer a translation from the review in the Almanac Panorama (Russian National Weekly): Everything was so glorious and significant, beginning with the carefully thought-through program! How challenging it must be to combine in one concert Russian romanticism and sentiment with Gothic mysticism; how brilliant it is...
Maestro`s Letter to the Audience
Letter to the Audience – about iPalpiti and the orchestral ensemble program “Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy” – Ludwig van Beethoven Dear Friends, Music is a gift that enables us to muse without words. “Music is the shorthand of emotion.” – Leo Tolstoy The name...
2016 iPALPITI FESTIVAL PRESS RELEASE & SCHEDULE
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American Record Guide: Review of iPalpiti Orchestra
Review of iPalpiti Orchestra’s 2015 Festival Grand Finale Concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Written by Richard Ginell. >>Download Article (PDF)
2015 iPALPITI FESTIVAL PRESS RELEASE & SCHEDULE
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Los Angeles Times Review 2014
Review of Grand Finale Concert at the Music Center’s Walt Disney Concert Hall “A dazzling international chamber orchestra… Eduard Schmieder’s art is all about communicating emotional energy through glorious sound.” – Rick Schultz, July 2014
Classical Voice North America: Hearing the Los Angeles Philharmonic Outdoors and iPalpiti Indoors
Hearing the Los Angeles Philharmonic Outdoors and iPalpiti Indoors “iPalpiti’s strings were completely unified and opulent… absolutely bloomed in this space, delivering a deep, rich bass in a movement from a C.P.E. Bach “Hamburg” Sinfonia in A, floating almost Stokowski-like in pater J.S. Bach’s “Air on the G String” with...
2014 iPalpiti Festival Press Release & Schedule
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LA Times – An international ensemble’s playing proves to be world-class
LA Times Review 2013 “The international ensemble’s playing at Walt Disney Concert Hall, led by conductor Eduard Schmieder, proves to be world-class…sensational… This was an invigorating world-class performance by young players with technique to burn and a palpable desire to live every note.” – Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 2013
OC Register – iPalpiti Orchestra Shines at Soka
iPalpiti Shines at Soka “Schmieder led [iPalpiti] with crisp signals more concerned with impulses and phrases than beats …they produced a splendid and colorful sound… and polished armor. The virtuosity was quite impressive.” — Timothy Mangan, The Orange County REGISTER, 2013
Impressions from the audience
iPalpiti IMPRESSIONS July 28-31 2012
LA Times – iPalpiti witty, imaginative at Disney Hall
iPalpiti witty, imaginative at Disney Hall July 29 2012
Jewish Journal – Global repertoire inspires international ensemble at iPalpiti Festival
Global repertoire inspires international ensemble at iPalpiti Festival July 18, 2012
LA Times – Musical minds: A quartet of iPalpiti artists
Musical minds: A quartet of iPalpiti artists July 17 2012
Reviews/Testimonials
Reviews/Testimonials
LA Times – All Together Now | The iPalpiti gala concert marking the Chopin and Schumann bicentennials draws a diverse crowd
LA Times – All Together Now July 26 2010 “Schmieder is an authoritative conductor. A tall and serious Russian of the old school, he goes in for intense expression and dug-in string sonorities that reverberated through Disney with so much power that I wondered for a moment whether the loudspeakers...
Music review: iPalpiti crosses L.A.’s cultural divide at Disney
LA Times Blog Review 2010
LA Times – iPalpiti’s world of talent
LA Times Festival Preview July 18 2010
The Strad – iPalpiti/Eduard Schmieder, Carnegie Zankel Hall (2009)
The Strad June 2009 “… Lead by conductor Eduard Schmieder with passion, intelligence, refinement and imagination, iPalpiti demonstrated an almost uncanny unanimity of sound and vibrato, a quality repeated again and again throughout the evening… It was especially remarkable to hear such a wide variety of individual tones emerge and...
NY Times – An Orchestra of Standouts in a Lively Musical Blend
NY Times Review 2007 “…a fitting name for the vibrant string orchestra from which the conductor Eduard Schmieder elicited a lively pulse…the ensemble was particularly noteworthy for its unity of purpose and blend. It was as if the musicians’ hearts were beating to the same buoyant rhythm…lustrous, polished tone and...
The Strad – Great Expectations
Great Expectations December 2004 “Eduard Schmieder transforms the young professional players of his iPalpiti orchestra intotomorrow’s first-rank musicians.”
The Strad – Soloists Unite
Soloist Unite December 1999 “iPalpiti played with striking unity and spirit and had an infectious way of making music…All [artists] clearly stimulated each other musically, showing mutual inspiration and respect.”
Critics around the world say
“iPalpiti provides polish for talented young professional musicians from around the world.”
Los Angeles Times
“…a fitting name for the vibrant string orchestra from which the conductor Eduard Schmieder elicited a lively pulse…the ensemble was particularly noteworthy for its unity of purpose and blend. It was as if the musicians’ hearts were beating to the same buoyant rhythm…lustrous, polished tone and graceful phrasing.”
New York Times
“…rich sonorities [of iPalpiti] audibly took the audience’s breath away – especially whenever concertmaster Peter Rainer, whose technically immaculate tone throughout the night was sweet and thrilling, had a few bars to play – showed that iPalpiti had charms to soothe a hall well filled with music lovers of all ages.”
STRINGS Magazine
“This was an invigorating world-class performance by young players with technique to burn and a palpable desire to live every note.”
Los Angeles Times
“…the highlight of this astonishing musical odyssey was the sold-out performance at Disney Hall with elegant Maestro Eduard Schmieder at the helm, conducting this world-class group with a brilliant sense of balance, tension and phrasing.”
Beverly Hills Outlook
“…The musicians played with vivid unanimity and committment… The playing was masterly…”
Los Angeles Times
“iPalpiti played with striking unity and spirit and had an infectious way of making music…All [artists] clearly stimulated each other musically, showing mutual inspiration and respect.”
The Strad Magazine
“…cool display of virtuosity… unified to an often a startling degree…”
Los Angeles Times
“[iPalpiti] performance can be called righteously overwhelming…”
Noord Holland Dagblad
“Exhilaration, thrills, and awe conquer audiences…. These are the stock and trade of Young [iPalpiti] Artists International.”
Los Angeles Times
“When one hears these musicians play, one realizes there is a connection between the title and the musical outcome…when it comes to 24 very talented string players (some have independent successful careers) and a conductor who leads them with great musicality, the result is naturally captivating and exciting.”
Ora Binur, Ma’ariv Daily, Jerusalem
“…an astounding demonstration of seamless and beauteous string playing… memorable, luminous, deeply moving performance…”
Los Angeles Times