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Burbank Public Library presents a glimpse of the golden age of classical music Raveland additional Sonata musical surprises featuring Judith Aller, violin and Manon Robertshaw, cello 7:00 PM Tuesday, August 30, 2016 JUDITH ALLER is an American-born virtuoso violinist who grew up in the midst of Hollywood’s classical music golden era. Her father, pianist Victor Aller, best known for his chamber recordings with the Hollywood String Quartet, was in charge of music at Warner Brothers Studio. Ms. Aller started taking lessons on the violin at seven, and as a teenager, she began her studies with Jascha Heifetz in his master class at the University of Southern California. Aller relocated to Finland and toured Europe where she performed as soloist and served as concertmaster and assistant conductor. From Helsinki she toured with the Finnish Radio Symphony, made many recordings for Finnish Radio, and taught at the famous Sibelius Academy. Moving back to Los Angeles, she performed as a principal and frequent soloist with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and played literally hundreds of dates for motion pictures, television, and commercial recordings. Many of Aller’s live recordings can be heard on her YouTube channel and website, judithaller.com. MANON ROBERTSHAW has toured Europe and North America as soloist, orchestral, and chamber musician, including a performance with Musique Sur La Mer Orchestra at the Tribute Concert in Honor of the Wedding of HRH Prince William & Miss Catherine Middleton. She has her Bachelor of Music degree from USC where she studied with Gabor Rejto, and her Master of Music degree studying with the Fine Arts Quartet from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Manon spent a year at the Maastricht Conservatory in the Netherlands studying with Radu Aldulescu. Ms. Robertshaw teaches and performs as both a soloist and chamber ensemble player at Loyola Marymount University, University of California at Riverside, El Camino, Cerritos, and Santa Ana Colleges. Buena Vista Branch Library 300 N. Buena Vista Street 818-238-5620 BurbankLibrary.com FUNDED BY THE FRIENDS OF THE BURBANK PUBLIC LIBRARY.

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