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Kendra Sobania holding violin

SPECIAL EVENTS, MUSIC Bram Goldsmith Theater

THE WALTER AND PEGGY GRAUMAN ENDOWMENT FUND PRESENTS

KENDRA SOBANIA, IN CONCERT

A CELEBRATION OF COMMUNITY

Mar 3, 2024

2:00 PM

Over the course of The Walter and Peggy Grauman Fellowship in Classical Music, Kendra Sobania seeks to build community, combat loneliness, and share the joy of music making with as many people as she can. Sobania is developing a combined performance and workshop experience that she can share with schools, using her gift with languages to build a stronger connection between students and music.

The afternoon's selected repertoire brightly exhibits Sobania's passion for music. This performance's program highlights violin classics, celebrates a variety of composers, showcases friendship, and underlines Sobania's caring spirit.


PROGRAM
Three Viennese Dances 
Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)

Violin Sonata No. 7, Op. 30 No. 2
Ludwig von Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

INTERMISSION

Sueños de Luna
Arturo Rodriguez (1976-present)

Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op. 78
Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)

Estrellita
Manuel Ponce (1882-1948), arranged by Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987)



RUNNING TIME
90 minutes, including a 15 minute intermission.



ABOUT KENDRA SOBANIA
Sobania is a passionate performer and educator in the Los Angeles area. Originally from Minnesota, she began studying violin at the age of five. Her performances have led her to play around the United States and abroad, including her Carnegie Hall debut in 2021. Sobania is fiercely committed to music education and has led numerous educational-outreach performances throughout South Korea, Minnesota and New York. Kendra, a fluent Korean speaker, has toured the United States performing chamber music as part of a team of musicians dedicated to bringing classical music into Korean communities.


ABOUT THE GRAUMAN FELLOWSHIP

The Walter and Peggy Grauman Fellowship in Classical Music is made possible by the generosity of performing arts philanthropist and Wallis Ambassador Peggy Parker Grauman and her late husband, Walter Grauman. The Grauman Fellowship in Classical Music, the first-ever fellowship program at The Wallis and the first of its type in Los Angeles County, provides an annual Fellowship Award of $15,000 to advance the career of an exceptionally talented emerging classical pianist or strings musician based in Los Angeles. 
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