2021 iPalpiti Festival Of International Laureates Begins

ENCINITAS, CA — The 2021 iPalpiti Festival of International Laureates will begin its 24th year led by Maestro Eduard Schmieder Thursday evening with a concert at the Encinitas Library by 19 iPalpiti soloists.

The festival's first week runs through Friday with three different concerts at 7:30 p.m. at the Encinitas Library, 540 Cornish Drive. They will perform solos, duets, trios and quartets by Schumann, Brahms, Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Bach, Schubert, Stravinsky, Mendelssohn, Faure, Gershwin and others.

Other festival highlights include a first-ever performance by the iPalpiti Orchestra at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in La Jolla and the west coast premiere of the violin concerto "Seascapes," by Alexey Shor.

"I am excited to bring the iPalpiti Orchestra to The Conrad in La Jolla and give San Diegans the opportunity to hear this world-class ensemble in a world-class hall," Schmieder said.

This year, the multi-week music festival features 23 award-winning young artists from 18 countries, including Germany, Ireland, Ecuador, Italy, Japan, Hungary and Russia. The orchestra is sometimes referred to as the "United Nations of Classical Music."

On Sunday at 3:00 p.m. the iPalpiti Orchestra takes the stage at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center, 7600 Fay Avenue. It will perform Arensky's "Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky," Tchaikovsky's "Souvenir D'un Lieu Cher," Kreisler's "Marche Miniatre Viennoise," and Shor's "Seascapes."

Tickets are $25 for each soloist concert and $39 for the orchestra concert. Soloist concert tickets are available at www.encinitas.tix.com. Orchestra concert tickets are available at: www.ljms.org/events. Tickets are also available at the door. For concert information, visit: www.ipalpiti.org.

The annual festival is presented by iPalpiti Artists International, a non-profit organization founded in 1997 by violinists and music educators Eduard and Laura Schmieder.

— City News Service