Player Biographies: Sandra Zaninovich, Violin
Sandra Zaninovich was born in Croatia, where her father, Sandro
Zaninovic, is a well-known composer. She had already been playing
violin for a couple of years before moving to Los Angeles at the age of
7, and continued her studies under the tutelage of Sybil Maxwell.
She was chosen to participate in the All-Southern-California Honor
Orchestra while in junior high at El Rodeo in the Beverly Hills school
district, in whose orchestra she also played.
Her
father founded the Beverly Hills Chamber Orchestra, with whom Sandra
performed many times. She has also performed twice with her
father at the internationally acclaimed music festival on her father's
native island of Hvar in Croatia. Together with her brother,
Igor, she and her father formed the "Trio Zee," with which she had many
performances over the years at various events. For years she also
performed with the Casa Italiana orchestra in downtown Los Angeles, and
very much misses Mario and Aida, who ran the Casa, and the happy
operatic performances she enjoyed with them.
Sandra received her
BA in English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley
which, together with Hvar, she continues to visit each year. She
also attended the UCLA School of Law.
She joined the Palisades
Symphony in 2005, and has tremendously enjoyed the journey with her
fellow music lovers under the baton of Maestro Joel Lish.
A
few of Sandra's favorite things are travel, literature (most especially
Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo," though only in the unabridged
Penguin Classics edition), Game of Thrones, delicious vegetarian food,
chocolate, her kitties, family and friends, and all kinds of music
(especially Mozart and Springsteen).