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1998 – 2021 Memories & Highlights
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MAESTRO EDUARD SCHMIEDER celebrating 70th
In the beginning...1956, USSR
First tour from USA, billed as an American Violinist and conductor (1982)
Genoa, Italy (1996) playing recital on Paganini's famous Guameri del Cesu "il Cannone" violin, bequeathed by Paganini to the city of Genoa for performances by exceptional virtuoso ciolinists only. “Eduard Schmieder is one of the outstanding teachers of the violin today.
I have the highest admiration for his work, his dedication, and his integrity.”
- Lord Yehudi Menuhin
Conducting iPalpiti's first concert in Los Angeles at the Ford Amphitheater(1999)
Alumnus Eldar Saparaev (Kazakhstan-Switzerland) plays Tchaikovsky’ Rococo Variations. Cellist Francisco Vila drives the cake onto stage as orchestra plays Happy Birthday and 1500+ audience sings-along.
FROM GREAT MUSICIANS:
“His musicianship and knowledge of music are outstanding…” - Ida Haendel, CBE Grand Dame of the Violin
Festival’s Pulse of Music Beats Strong in its 22nd season:
• 26 artists from 19 countries • Festival’s ensemble-in-residence: French Trio Zadig • Festival’s composer-in-residence: Azerbaijani Franghiz Ali-Zadeh • Two world premieres: commissions of “Harmony” by Franghiz Ali-Zadeh and
“Fantasia Hungariana” by Sergei Dreznin
• U.S. premiere: Beethoven’s String Symphony after Kreutzer Sonata.
“…The Festival of International Laureates rolled around to its annual grand finale July 20 in Walt Disney Concert Hall. As always, the concert was staffed by iPalpiti — the festival’s flagship ensemble of 26 expert young string players from around the globe — and led by the group’s perennial maestro and co-founder, Eduard Schmieder. One thing that hasn’t changed in
the 22 seasons of this festival’s existence is Schmieder's willingness to ignore fashion and so called authenticity by programming outof-the-way, audience friendly repertoire and transcriptions of chamber pieces….”
- iPalpiti soloists performed Rimsky-Korsakov string
sextet, first time to be heard in LA:
“… at noontime concert at UCLA on July 16 in historic Rotunda across Royce Hall, a group of expert iPalpiti string players carried out one
the organization’s most admirable missions – resurrecting little-known, audience-friendly music
that other groups don’t bother looking for…the piece is a gem…a polyglot sextet….seemed to relish every bar, revving up the scherzos with rumbling energy abd abandon, digging deeply into the Slavic Romantic soul in the lone slow movement..” –Richard Ginell, SFCV
SEXTET L-R: Semyon Promoe/Russia, Samuel Nebyu/Hungary, Midori Maruyama/Japan, Agnieszka Podlucka/Poland, Sevak Avanesyan/ArmeniaBelgium, Egor Antonenko/Ukraine.
In the Time of Corona
2020 Virtual Festival opened with cheers from around the world in a Zoom performance of the audiences favorite Carl Böhn's Perpetuum Mobile, iPalpiti 2014 Archival LIVE, and a YouTube Premiere: ARCHIVAL 2004 inaugural Disney Hall opening concert with an introduction by Theodore Bikel.
iPalpiti Orchestra | Eduard Schmieder, conductor
All Festival links are still active on the website, feel free to watch anytime: wwiPalpiti.org
FESTIVAL MEMENTOS
SELECT ARCHIVAL: alumni Svetlana Smolina, piano/ Yury Revich, violin / Jacob Shaw, cellist Ernest Chausson Piano Trio in G minor iPalpiti Festival 2015 Greystone Mansion, Beverly Hills. SELECT ARCHIVAL: alumni Czech virtuso Pavel Šporcl featured in the "From Homeland" program with Svetlana Smolina, piano. Also, a soloist with iPalpiti at Walt Disney Concert Hall, 2012
LIVE FROM PARIS: Trio Zadig was scheduled to return as soloists at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Beethoven's Triple Concerto. For this in the Time of Corona festival, the Trio has recorded a very special program with LOVE from Paris to our very special audiences: Dvořák Dumky Trio and Tchaikovsky' Seasons. As resident artist of the famed Foundation Singer-Polignac, the concert was recorded in the concert space of the Foundation'castle.
Coming out of Corona
a title of the SFCV feature article by Tom Jacobs July 2021
…By returning to live performances ahead of many other music organizations, iPalpiti is “pioneering what we have preached from our founding in 1998,” said Festival Director Laura Schmieder. Its mission, she said, is to “preserve traditions of great classical music, support exceptional talents,” encourage “unity and hope,” and promote the idea that “music is the spiritual factor which brings people together and unites them irrespective of religion and culture.”
At Conrad Prebys Performance Arts Center | Baker-Baum Concert Hall La Jolla.
Jaewon Wee, soloist
Winner of the Special iPalpiti Prize at the George Enescu International Competition 2020-2021 in Bucharest.
24th iPalpiti festival was a welcomed celebration, reuniting over 2000 LIVE audiences with LIVE musicians in sold-out concerts taking place as scheduled. The “reunion” was emotional for both the artists and the audiences. The new venues: Conrad Prebys Hall in La Jolla, Elsewhere Topanga’s outdoor “Hollywood Night,” and the finale at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills were “oohs & aahs” to the delight of all attending patrons.
Roman Genn is a contributing editor for the National Review. His work appears regularly in leading publications nationwide, such as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.
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