Benefactors Concert Series
The Benefactors Concert Series is presented throughout the year in private estates in Los Angeles.
Since 2007, the Series has also been presented in New York at the home of Susan and Charles Avery Fisher.
Upcoming Events: TBA
Previous Benefactors Concerts
April 30, 2024
Alexander Boldachev, Classic to Rock Harp
iPalpiti Musicales New York. Home of Charles Avery & Susan Fisher
March 3, 2024
Francisco Vila, Recording Project Preview
From Francisco: In April of this year, I will be recording the famous Dvorak Cello Concerto with the Prague Philharmonia Orchestra, the only Hispanic cellist in recent times to have done a new recording of this work. Commercial recordings are the presentation card, increasing artist profile, and the number of concerts in a season. An iPalpiti artist since 2009, Francisco played with iPalpiti in LA festivals, Israel, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, Carnegie Hall, and beyond. In 2015, with an initial grant from iPalpiti, he established a festival in his native Ecuador, where hundreds of Latin American students benefit from educational and performing opportunities.
January 31, 2024
Alexander Boldachev, Classic to Rock Harp
Hosted by Mr. Severyn Ashkenazy & Princess Irina Sayn-Wittgenstein, in Beverly Hills
October 26, 2023
Solidarity in Israel Concert
Dina & Fred Leeds hosted the evening of Solidarity and music in their Garden Amphitheatre in Bel Air on October 26th. It was an inspirational and successful gathering. All funds now at Jewish National Fund-USA, designated for the Sefer Torah for the 3500 Israeli residents in the Halutza region who live on the Southern Gaza border and who have suffered brutal massacres – like Nir Oz where out of 400 residents only 140 survived, Be’eri, Shlomit – all relocated now but determined to rebuild their lives.
May 2, 2023
Duo Violino @ New York
iPalpiti Musicales in NY.Home of Susan and Charles Avery Fisher
DUO VIOLINO: Yuan Tian & Zi Zygmund Wang
GUEST ARTIST: Pianist Kevin Kwan Louks, CEO Chamber Music America
April 19, 2023
Duo Violino @ Los Angeles
Private Estate Beverly Hills
DUO VIOLINO: iPalpiti Artists Yuan Tian & Zygmund Wang & Alexander Boldachev, Classic To Rock Harp
May 14, 2022
Performance by iPalpiti Laureates
iPalpiti 25th Anniversary Celebration
Private Estate Beverly Hills iPalpiti Alumnus Superstar Pavel Šporcl & His Blue Violin
May 3, 2022
Performance by iPalpiti Laureates
IPALPITI MUSICALES NEW YORK Home Of Susan And Charles Avery Fisher
Cancelled due to COVID resurgence in NY
Preview Takamori Arai, violinist/Japan on his Weill Carnegie Hall debut May 10, 2022
Dec 5, 2021
Performance by iPalpiti Laureates
iPalpiti artists violinist Samuel Nebyu & pianist Jacopo Giacopuzzi
Samuel flying to LA fresh from a European tour with Anne-Sophie Mutter, and Jacopo will be driving from Santa Barbara for a Classical Sundays at Six at St. James (former Sundays Live! at LACMA) concert that night. We will be the fortunate ones to hear them before the general public in this exclusive private afternoon for our Benefactors and special friends.
May 19, 2019
Performance by iPalpiti Laureates
IPALPITI 22ND SEASON KICK-OFF
Home of Helena and Stanley Kolodziey in Beverly Hills
MEET & GREET CONSUL GENERALS FROM 22 COUNTRIES REPRESENTING IPALPITI ARTISTS THIS FESTIVAL
HONORING DEDICATED BENEFACTORS
PERFORMANCE BY IPALPITI LAUREATES
Azer Damirov, violin/Azerbaijan Adelya Shagidullina,violist/Tatarstan Francisco Vila, cellist/Ecuador Jacopo Giacopuzzi, pianist/Italy
January 29, 2018
iPalpiti Musicales in New York
November 8, 2017
XIV Leo Frankel Tribute
Hillcrest Country Club hosted by Mary Levin Cutler
For special benefactors & friends, iPalpiti’s founding chair Mary Cutler hosts an evening of the “broadcast” screening selections from 2017 Grand Finale at Disney Hall & Mozarteum Salzburg.
October 10, 2017
iPalpiti Musicales – Pavel Šporcl
SPECIAL EVENT In cooperation with Czechoslovak Society of Arts & Sciences under the auspices of the Consul General of the Czech Republic Pavol Šepeľák
iPalpiti presents alumnus Pavel Šporcl & his BLUE VIOLIN
At the Hollywood Hills “Moroccan” home of Sari Zelikowsky
April 1, 2017
iPalpiti Series – Jacob Shaw & David Lau Magnussen
Private Estate, Beverly Hills
March 25, 2017
New York City – Musicales at Fisher’s Home – Jacob Shaw & David Lau Magnussen
iPalpiti alumnus cellist Jacob Shaw tours USA celebrating the 5th year of collaboration with pianist David Lau Magnussen.
January 21, 2017
New York City – Musicales at Fisher’s Home – Samuel Nebyu
“Violin Gems from Black Composers” Collected and Performed by Violinist Samuel Nebyu Bethany Brooks, pianist
Program will include spiritual arrangements by African-American and English-African composers, and virtuosi favorites…
January 17, 2017
iPalpiti Series – Juan-Miguel Hernandez & Jacopo Giacopuzzi
iPalpiti alumnus: Juan-Miguel Hernandez – Violist of the legendary Fine Arts Quartet – & iPalpiti Pianist: Jacopo Giacopuzzi
Private Residency, Los Angeles
December 9, 2016
XIV Leo Frankel Tribute
THE XIV ANNUAL LEO FRANKEL TRIBUTE & “BROADCAST” SCREENING OF THE 2016 GRAND FINALE CONCERT AT DISNEY HALL
Hillcrest Country Club 10000 Pico Boulevard, Cheviot Hills Hosted by Mary Levin Cutler
April 19, 2016
iPalpiti Series – Juan-Miguel Hernandez & Jacopo Giacopuzzi
Home of Dr. & Mrs. Saeed Hakim Brentwood, Los Angeles
February 14, 2016
New York City – Musicales at Fisher’s Home – Pavel Šporcl
November 14, 2015
XIII Leo Frankel Tribute
Nathan Frankel, iPalpiti Board Member / violin &
iPalpiti Artists: Anastasya Terenkova, piano | Evgeny Tonkha, Cello Performing Mendelssohn Piano Trio No.2 & more…
May 3, 2015
New York City – Musicales at Fisher’s Home – Samuel Nebyu
Pianist: Hayk Arsenyan
January 29, 2015
New York City – Musicales at Fisher’s Home – Andrew Moses
Fifteen year-old clarinetist Andrew Moses is a winner of the numerous national competitions. He performed as concerto soloist in Walt Disney Concert Hall at age 11, appeared on From the Top on NPR, and is a recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award. Selected an iPalpiti Junior in 2013, he performed during annual Festival of International Laureates in ensembles with iPalpiti artists. A finalist in the 2014 ASCAP Morton Gould Composer Awards, Andrew was awarded a Composer Fellowship with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the 2013-2015 seasons. The LAPhil premiered his short symphonic piece “Surging Silence” in Disney Hall and will perform his new symphonic composition in early 2015.
November 22, 2014
12th Leo Frankel Tribute
Leo Frankel Concert Hall, Beverly Hills
Nathan Frankel, violin & iPalpiti Artists
Juan-Miguel Hernandez, viola Jason Issokson, Violin | Evgeny Tonkha, Cello iPalpiti junior Andrew Moses, Clarinet Performing Brahms Clarinet Quartet
July 21, 2014
iPalpiti Soloists
LEO FRANKEL CONCERT HALL, BEVERLY HILLS
This event was co-presented by the Beverly Hills Chapter of Rotary Club and iPalpiti Artists International.
May 18, 2014
Music in the Mansion Series
SOMANG JEAGAL, pianist
First-Prize Winner of the Asia-Pacific Young Artist Piano Competition, Somang is a graduate with highest honors from Seoul National University, Grand Prize recipient from the Ministry of Culture of Korea, performed in the Salzburg Schloss Konzerte in Austria and toured Australia as part of the KUMHO Virtuosi Concert Series.
April 19, 2014
iPalpiti Series – Pavel Šporcl, violinist
iPALPITI CONCERT SERIES AT LEO FRANKEL CONCERT HALL, BEVERLY HILLS
THE MOST DISTINCTIVE MEMBER of the young generation of Czech violinists, lauded as“a talent that is born once in a century…” www.pavelsporcl.com
April 10-21, 2014
iPalpiti’s First Study Course for the Song Hong faculty ensemble of the Vietnam National Music Academy
Leo Frankel Concert Hall
Song Hong faculty ensemble from Vietnam National Music Academy, comes to LA on a grant from Wes Benson Foundation to be coached by Eduard Schmieder and Martin Chalifour (LA PHIL’ principal concertmaster & iPalpiti Artistic Advisor).
February 15, 2014
iPalpiti Series – Andrew Moses, Clarinet
iPALPITI CONCERT SERIES AT LEO FRANKEL CONCERT HALL, BEVERLY HILLS
www.andrewmoses.com
January 25, 2014
New York City – Musicales at Fisher’s Home
In an international spirit of iPalpiti, you will meet and hear:
• Italian virtuoso-violinist Davide de Askaniis in solo and duets with Israeli-American violinist Niv Ashkenazy
• Israeli cellist Yoni Draiblate and the “Outstanding Russian pianist with a luxuriant tone” Svetlana Smolina
November 16, 2013
11th Annual Leo Frankel Tribute
Nathan Frankel & iPalpiti Artists
Established in November 2003, the Leo Frankel Memorial Award Fund honors Leo, a founding board member of iPalpiti, and a gifted violinist. Leo’s son, Nathan, continues in his father’s steps as a member of the iPalpiti board and, in an annual tribute event, performs with iPalpiti artists. Since its founding, iPalpiti has provided essential support to 238 musicians from 45 countries.
July 22, 2013
iPalpiti Series – Violinist Alexandru Tomescu
Hailed in international press as “a violin superstar” (Berliner Morgenpost), “one of the great players of violin in the world” (Le monde de la musique, France), “remarkable…ease of technical perfection” (The Strad, London), “Alexandru Tomescu is a great artist, an ambassador of Romanian culture. Together with his violin he went throughout Europe and America and changed people’s views of Romania” (Kansan Uutiset, Helsinki, Finland).
April 29, 2013
iPalpiti Series – The Boreal Trio
Juan-Miguel Hernandez, VIOLA | Uriel Vankestein, CLARINET | Gabriela Martinez, PIANIST
Through this unusual and compelling combination of instruments, three soloists boasting national and international reputations unite to provide audiences with performances of the highest caliber. Mr. Vanchestein, Mr. Hernandez, and Ms. Martinez have respectively won top prizes at the Geneva International Competition, the Brahms International Competition, and the Anton Rubinstein International Piano Competition, and have been lauded by critics as “compelling, elegant, and incisive” (The New York Times)
February 16, 2013
Pianist Svetlana Smolina
Svetlana Smolina has performed with orchestras and in recitals worldwide including with the Mariinsky Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall, New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, and as an iPalpiti artist at Walt Disney Concert Hall. A frequent guest at the world’s leading festivals, she has recorded for Decca/Phillips with Maestro Valery Gergiev and for Deutsche Grammophon. “…an outstanding Russian pianist with a luxuriant tone…” –Mark Swed, LA Times
January 20, 2013
10th Annual Leo Frankel Tribute
Inaugural Concert at Leo Frankel Concert Hall
Home of Nathan Frankel, Beverly Hills
Nathan Frankel, iPalpiti board member, honors his father performing with iPalpiti Artists & special guest
Martin Chalifour, Principal Concertmaster of LA Philharmonic
November 19, 2012
Benefactors Concert Series featuring Konstantin Boyarsky
Principal Viola, Royal Opera, London UK
“A gifted young musician with immense musical potential.” Mstislav Rostropovich
Home of Ludmila Gierowitz, Pasadena
June 7, 2012
Composer Salon II
Home of Harriet Selling: the famous Schwimmer house by John Lautner
In this second phase of the project, local iPalpiti members will present the first reading of the completed composition in a quintet version.
Ellen Jung (violin), Victor de Almeida (viola), Julie Jung & Lars Hoefs (cello) and Nathan Frankel, iPalpiti Board Member, joining the group as a guest violinist, Renowned Los Angeles-based Israeli/American composer Sharon Farber will be present & talk about the new commissioned composition written for iPalpiti through the special LA County Grant.
May 19, 2012
Francisco Vila
Home of Dr. & Mrs. Saeed Hakim
Brentwood, CA
“…an exceptionally talented young cellist and musician. He is heading for an important place in the world of music.” – Janos Starker
Member of iPalpiti since 2009, Ecuadorian-Spanish Francisco currently mentors with Gary Hoffman in the Artist Diploma Program at the Chapelle Queen Elisabeth in Brussels, with solo engagements in Europe.
April 21, 2012
Composer Sharon Farber
Saban Theatre Foyer 8440 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills 90211
COMPOSER SALON
Renowned Los Angeles-based Israeli/American composer Sharon Farber will play excerpts and talk about new commissioned composition written for iPalpiti through the special LA County Grant
March 3, 2012
“MY MUSIC MY LOVE” – a staged reading of play by Eduard Schmieder
MUNICIPAL GALLERY, City of Beverly Hills 455 N. Rexford Drive
A reflection of the Romantic Era in One Act featuring excerpts from selected compositions in the style of Romance
(arranged by Eduard Schmieder)
Featuring:
Dennis Bade as Johannes Brahms
Eduard Schmieder as Joseph Joachim
Svetlana Smolina as Clara Schumann
March 1, 2012
Pianist Svetlana Smolina
Home of Ludmila Gierowitz, Pasadena
” an outstanding Russian pianist with a luxuriant tone” – Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times
New face of iPalpiti since this summer’ festival, Svetlana spares the time to come to LA amidst her numerous solo engagements with orchestras and recordings.
January 18, 2012
New York performance Svetlana Smolina (piano) / Maron Anis Khoury (flute)
Home of Susan & Charles Avery Fisher
March 21, 2012
Alto-tenor Slava Kagan-Paley
Home of Severyn Ashkenazy, Beverly Hills
Alto-tenor Slava Kagan-Paley
“A diamond among voices” – Times of London
October 21, 2011
Violinist Catharina Chen
Violinist Catharina Chen iPalpiti artist since 2004, well-known to Californians as a soloist. Catharina detours from her tour in Mexico via LA on the way to her native Norway for few public performances, sharing a special evening with iPalpiti Benefactors.
November 19, 2011
9th Annual Leo Frankel Tribute
MUNICIPAL GALLERY
City of Beverly Hills
455 N. Rexford Drive
Nathan Frankel, iPalpiti board member, honors his father as the lead violinist in Dvorak’ Piano Trio in f, Op. 65 with iPalpiti artists Pianist Svetlana Smolina and Cellist Julie Jung.
May 22, 2011
iPalpiti Soloists
East Coast Benefactors Concert Series
HOME of CHARLES AVERY & SUSAN FISHER
Ending its biannual East Coast residency, selected iPalpiti artists give a showcase “SPECTACULAR” featuring
Violinists:
Aisha Dossumova/Kazakhstan
Azer Damirov/Azerbaidjan
Irina Chepizhnaya/Russia
Alexandru Dzyubinsky/Moldova
Violist Adelya Shagidullina/Tatarstan
Cellist Francisco Vila/Ecuador-Spain
Pianist Svetlana Smolina/Russia- USA
It is with great honor and pleasure that we welcome the members of iPalpiti Artists International and invited guests into our home. These special events are significant in that they represent chosen young musicians who exemplify the caliber of gifted artists from around the world and are supported financially and artistically by iPalpiti.
Bravo!
Susan and Charles Avery Fisher
February 7, 2011
Israeli Chamber Project
Home of Severyn Ashkenazy
featuring
iPalpiti artist Tibi Cziger/clarinet
Michal Korman/cello
Sivan Magen/harp
Assaff Weisman/piano
Itamar Zorman/violin
On tour from Israel, these prize-winning musicians will present a program from classic to romantic to contemporary Israeli composers.
October 19, 2010
Grace Cloutier, Harp
Home of Charles Avery & Susan Fisher
“…an accomplished, poised, self-assured performer… [her] playing was dreamy, poetic and colorful..evoking all the colors of the rainbow with scintillating effect.” – New York Concert Review
November 19, 2010
8th Annual Leo Frankel Tribute
Home of Hayley & Michael Miller
Bel Air, Los Angeles
Nathan Frankel & iPalpiti Friends, artists
Maria Wietrzynska, piano
Lars Hoefs, cello
Evan Wilson, viola
February 2010
Events
SOPRANO JACQUELYNNE FONTAINE
Miss California 2006. Selections from Broadway to opera.
Private home in Bel-Air.
iPALPITI PERFORMS IN THE BAY AREA
February 16-18, 2010 iPalpiti performs in the Bay Area As featured artists at ASTA (American String Teachers Association) National Conference Thursday, February 18, 8 pm Mission City Ballroom Santa Clara Convention Center 5001 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054-1119.
For this short tour, iPalpiti will feature 18 musicians ( representing 14 countries from Argentina to Estonia to Azerbaijan) as a chamber orchestra, under Maestro Eduard Schmieder, with a program of Piazzolla Four Seasons, Haydn’ Divertimento for solo cello, and other short pieces.
A CONCERT AT SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY
Location: 1750 Holloway Ave. San Francisco, CA 94132
Creative Arts Building, Knuth Hall
November 2009
iPalpiti Musicales NY: From Bach to Tango
Home of Charles Avery & Susan Fisher
Presents From Bach to Tango
iPalpiti artists:
Sami Merdinian, violinist, Argentina
Kaija Lukas,violinist, Estonia
Adelya Shagidullina, violist, Tatarstan
Yves Dharamraj, cellist, France-USA
Kristoffer Saebo, bass, Australia-USA
June 2009
Four Sopranos
Home of Mrs. Ludmila Gierowitz Pasadena, CA
Four Sopranos
Winners, Beverly Hills Auditions 2009
A rare opportunity to hear four rising soprano stars in entertaining program from arias to American standards as solo, duos, and quattros.
Angie Solomon, Xiaobo Su, Yun-Ju Lai, and Jacquelynne Fontaine
with pianist Shawn Kirchner
April 2009
Cameron Carpenter
Contrapuntal Performance Hall Home of Alan Kay and Bonnie MacBird
Cameron Carpenter, Organist
Grammy nominee/iPalpiti alumnus