Wednesday, January 18, 2012
7PM
Home of Susan & Charles Avery Fisher
5th Avenue & 87th
New York, New York

Performance by
Svetlana Smolina, Piano/Russia
with
Maron Anis Khoury, Flute/Israel

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May dates/artists TBA.

Saturday, November 19, 2011 5pm
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.

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February 25, 2012
Pianist Svetlana Smolina
" 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.

March 24, 2012
Counter-tenor Slava Kagan-Paley
"A diamond among voices"
- Times of London
After 10 years of exclusive contract with Japan Victor Entertainment (JVC Japan), Slava shares his home between Israel and Moscow, and is available to the US audiences again. We are privileged to be among the first to present him. Check his recordings on amazon.com.

May 17, 2012
Cellist Francisco Vila
"…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.

October 20, 2011

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.

Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater is located inside Glorya Kaufman Hall. Parking is available for $11 in Lot 4. Enter the Campus at Westwood Plaza (off of Sunset). Self Service Pay Stations are available in UCLA Lots 2, 3, and 4. More parking information and maps can be found at http://map.ais.ucla.edu/go/1002187

Lars Hoefs hails from Appleton, WI. He attended high school at the North Carolina School of the Arts, received a B.M. from Northwestern University, and a M.M. from the University of Southern California. Lars earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts, also at USC, studying cello with Ronald Leonard. At USC, Lars was teaching assistant for the Contemporary Music Ensemble, winner of LA Weekly’s “Ensemble of the Year.”  As cellist of the Blue Rose Trio, Lars has performed and taught in China, Israel, Brazil, and France, and commissioned works from young composers. With pianist Marek Zebrowski, Director of the USC Polish Music Center and improvisation-partner to filmmaker David Lynch, Lars has championed rare Polish works in New York, London, and Southern California. He has performed quartets with Midori at Disney Hall, toured with Chamber Music America Founder Peter Marsh, collaborated with members of the Ysaÿe Quartet, and has recently joined the California String Quartet. Lars plays regularly with Camerata Pacifica, “the best chamber music reason to get out of the house” – LA Times. Honors include top prizes in the Fischoff, MTNA, Coleman, and Peninsula Chamber Music Competitions. Lars plays an 1822 Thomas Kennedy cello, on loan from the Peter Mandell Collection of Southern California. In demand as a writer, Lars is the program annotator for the Pasadena Symphony. Also a composer, his works and improvisations reveal an interest in musics of the world, and are shaped by the philosophy of Jiddu Krishnamurti. Recent highlights included cello/piano works by Villa-Lobos for festivals in Alaska and Texas, and solo appearances with Brazilian orchestras in Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, and the Amazonas Filarmônica in Manaus. Lars has performed for iPalpiti’s benefactors events, and in 2011 joined iPalpiti orchestra on its tour to Israel.

Bassist KRISTOFFER SAEBO is a soloist, chamber musician, and a teacher. In 2008, Kristoffer finished a two year residency teaching and playing chamber music with The Academy – a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute. He has been fortunate to work with prominent artists, orchestras, chamber orchestras, small chamber ensembles, bands, and performs regularly with The Chris Norman Ensemble, Ensemble ACJW, SONYC, The Carnegie Ensemble, Wordless Music Orchestra, Argento Chamber Ensemble, and Grammy Award-Winner Paul Halley. As the principal bassist of the Star Wars Orchestra, he and members of the Boston Pops and Orchestra of St. Luke’s recently toured North America playing Star Wars in Concert. Since 2005, he is a member of iPalpiti Orchestral Ensemble of International Laureates, performing in festivals and on tours in Slovenia, Austria, the U.S., and Israel, including concerts at the Mozarteum Grosse Hall, Salzburg; Disney Hall, Los Angeles; and Carnegie Hall, New York. He has also performed contemporary music with such groups as Alarm Will Sound, Ikarus Chamber Players, and Metropolis Ensemble. Kristoffer teaches bass privately and in Manhattan at Bloomingdale School of Music. As composer, Kristoffer's work has been featured in the motion picture Sir John Soane: An English Architect, An American Legacy (Checkerboard Film Foundation), as well as in the short firm The Projectionist (Director Michael Bates, Foreign Exchange Film and Music Festival). Born in Australia, Mr. Saebo has lived most of his life in the United States. He received his Master of Music Degree from the Juilliard School in 2006 as a student of Orin O'Brien and his Bachelor of Music degree from The Juilliard School in 2004 under Prof. Homer Mensch.