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 on stage were plugged in. They weren’t; they were left over from a Lyle Lovett concert in Disney the night before.”
– Mark Swed
The Strad – iPalpiti/Eduard Schmieder, Carnegie Zankel Hall (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 then slip back into those fabulous unisons…”
– Bill McGlaughlin