Pianist and composer Oksana Kolesnikova is set to perform a benefit concert at the Paseo Club in Valencia with special guest Rob Murat to raise money for cleft repair procedures and cleft care for children.

Smile Train, an organization providing free cleft repair surgery and comprehensive cleft care for children, will be the concert beneficiary at this event. For each ticket sold, $50 will be donated to Smile Train to help provide new smiles and opportunities for children with clefts.

This life-changing surgery and associated care will help change a child’s life by giving them the ability to eat, breathe, speak and smile.

“We were deeply touched when we found out with a simple $250 you can give a new life to a child,” said Oksana’s husband and manager Alex Concas.

Oksana, a newly minted Valencia resident, has traveled the world entertaining US troops and UN officials, and has had the chance to perform for Sir Elton John, Angelina Jolie, Andrea Bocelli, Oprah Winfrey and other A-list celebrities.

An entrepreneur as well as a musician, she has founded companies that offer music lessons, foreign language instruction and independent tutoring for children in the Los Angeles area, as well as around the world through the use of Skype, according to Concas.

A master instructor for all ages, Oksana founded the Oksana School of Music & Art in 2006, serving Valencia, Beverly Hills, Rancho Palos Verdes and Los Angeles.

The benefit concert will feature all-original music composed by Oksana, with a special guest performance by award-winning singer/songwriter Rob Murat, giving music lovers plenty of reasons to smile while helping support million of children with clefts through Smile Train.

The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 5, at The Paseo Club in Valencia. The cost to attend the event is $100 per person and will include a three-course fine-dining meal.

To RSVP or donate, click here or call 1-323-284-7930.

About Smile Train:

Smile Train is an international children’s charity with a sustainable approach to a single, solvable problem: cleft lip and palate. Millions of children in developing countries with untreated clefts live in isolation, but more importantly, have difficulty eating, breathing and speaking.

Cleft repair surgery is simple, and the transformation is immediate. Our sustainable model provides training, funding and resources to empower local doctors in 85+ developing countries to provide 100%-free cleft repair surgery and comprehensive cleft care in their own communities.

To learn more about how Smile Train’s sustainable approach means donations have both an immediate and long-term impact, please visit smiletrain.org.

This information has been provided to KHTS AM-1220 through an Oksana Management Group press release.