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Sara Dragan

Sara Dragan is 22 years old award-winning concert violinist, emerging as one of the finest violinists of her generation. She started to play the violin at the age of 7, under the tutelage of her parents, Konrad and Alicja Dragan.

Sara is protégée of legendary pedagogue Professor Zakhar Bron. She is student of Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid, as well as Zakhar Bron Academy in Switzerland.

The exceptional young violinist is currently playing on an old Italian violin – Nicola Amati (1666) on the generous loan from Florian Leonhard Fine Violins (London&New York).

Despite her young age, Sara won first prize / Grand Prix of about 50 violin competitions in Europe, Asia and USA, among others: International Violin H.Wieniawski & K.Lipinski Competition, New York International Artists Association Competition, Novosibirsk International Violin Competition, International G.P.Telemann Violin Competition, International Global Music Partnership Competition.

She has already played thousands of concerts as a soloist. She performed solo with such an orchestras as: the BVG Orchester Berlin, the RRCMC Moscow Orchestra, Royal Chamber Orchestra, Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra, Uzbekistan National Symphony Orchestra, Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Sudeten Philharmonic Orchestra, Opole Philharmonic Orchestra, the Warmian-Masurian Philharmonic Orchestra, Tel Aviv Soloists Orchestra, Busan Philharmonic, iPalpiti Soloists Orchestra and many others.

Sara made her debut after 6 months of studying violin playing. She performed Henryk Wieniawski’s ” Obertas”  with the orchestra.
At the age of 12 she played Violin Concerto No.1 in D-major by Niccolo Paganini (with the cadenza of E. Sauret) and Carmen Fantasie by F.Waxman with the accompaniment of the Opole Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Piotr Borkowski.
At age 15, she made her United States debut at Carnegie Hall (NYC) where she played Violin Concerto No.1 in F-sharp minor by H.Wieniawski, as well as „The Last Rose of Summer” by W. Ernst.

As a soloist, she gave concerts at Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Carnegie Hall in New York City, Walt Disney Hall of Los Angeles Philharmonic, Haeundae Cultural Center’ Concert Hall of Busan in South Korea, Rachmaninov Concert Hall in Moscow , Landovsky’s Auditorium in Paris, Auditorium Sony in Madrid, Polish Royal Palace in Warsaw etc. She played in most Polish Philharmonic Halls as well as was touring around Europe, Asia and USA.

Sara Dragan has performed at many prestigious festivals all over the world among those are Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Interlaken Classics, Henryk Wieniawski Festival and the „Emanations” Festival at Krzysztof Penderecki European Music Center of Music.

Sara engages herself in many charity events by performing among others during ballgames for gifted young people and promotion of talented children in Hof, Germany as well as taking part in charity auctions for children with Down’s syndrome.


“Sara Dragan is an extremely talented young violinist. She is a phenomenon of her age group. She has a large repertoire and is an immensely gifted and creative musician. […] Sara is a very promising talent.” – Professor Jadwiga Kaliszewska, 2009.

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  • 2022/2023
  • USA TOUR
  •  (SARA DRAGAN/ TOMASZ RITTER /WOJCIECH RODEK/ THE POLISH WIENIAWSKI PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA) 


  • January 15
    – Daytona Beach, FL
    January 16
    – Miami, FL
    January 17
    – Ft. Myers, FL
    January 21
    – Vero Beach, FL
    January 22
    – Amelia Island, FL
    January 23
    – The Villages, FL
    January 25
    – Clemson, SC
    January 26
    – Pembroke, NC
    January 27
    – Florence, SC
    January 29 
    – Newberry, SC
    February 2
    – Radford, VA
    February 4
    – Rockville, MD
    February 5
    – Manassas, VA
    February 11
    – Worcester, MA
    February 13
    – Bronx, NY
    February 14 –
    Storrs, CT
    February 15
    – Lyndon Center, VT
    February 17
    – Lewisburg, PA
    February 18
    – Brookville, NY
    February 19 – Binghamton, NY
    February 20
     – Bethlehem, PA
    February 21
    – Zanesville, OH
    February 22
    – Van Wert, OH
    February 25
    – Carmel, IN
    February 26
    – Urbana, IL
    February 27
    – Columbia, IL
    February 28
    – Ames, IA
    March 1
    – Lawrence, KS
    March 2
    – Edmond, OK
    March 5 –
    Edgerton, WI

  • August 6
    – recital (przy fortepianie Marek Bracha) – Festiwal WarszeMuzik, Warszawa

  • September 2-4 – recitale (przy fortepianie Sławomir Cierpik) – Festiwal “Z klasyką przez Polskę”, Dolny Śląsk
  • September 19-21 – sesja nagraniowa (Maestro Wojciech Rodek/Filharmonia Lubelska), Koncerty Wieniawskiego, Lublin

    September 27 – recital (przy fortepianie- Sławomir Cierpik), Lublin

    October 4 – L. van Beethoven – Koncert skrzypcowy D-dur Op.61, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Praga – Czechy

    November 4 – E. Lalo – Symphonie Espagnole Op.21, Toruńska Orkiestra Symfoniczna, Toruń

    January 8 – recital (przy fortepianie Sławomir Cierpik), NFM, Wrocław

    February 17 – H.Wieniawski – Koncert nr 1 fis-moll Op.14, Filharmonia Sudecka/ Maestro  Mirosław Jacek Błaszczyk, Wałbrzych

    February 24 – H. Wieniawski – Koncert nr 1 fis-moll Op.14, Antalya State Symphony Orchestra, Antalya – Turcja

    March 3 – H. Wieniawski – Koncert nr 1 fis- moll Op.14, Presidential Symphony Orchestra, Ankara – Turcja

    March 27 – April 6 – F.Mendelssohn Bartholdy – Koncert na skrzypce, fortepian i orkiestrę smyczkową Op.posth., Miriam Yampolsky/Tel Aviv Soloists Ensemble/ Maestro Barak Tal, trasa koncertowa – Izrael

    April 26 – J.Sibelius – Koncert skrzypcowy d-moll Op.47, Filharmonia Gorzowska, Gorzów Wielkopolski

    POZOSTAŁE KONCERTY ZOSTANĄ OGŁOSZONE WKRÓTCE!

     

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