Watch Vadim Gluzman share his thoughts on selecting Alina not only as a 2018 Arkady Fomin Scholarship recipient but also as his musical partner for Bach's Double Violin Concerto with the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra in 2019.
While in Columbus performing with Vadim Gluzman and the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, NBC4 covered Alina visiting local music students and sharing her experiences as a violin soloist (2019.)
“More than 800 Vallejo students filled the Empress Theatre… to hear Mozart’s Violin Concert No. 3, and you could have heard a pin drop…”
Times Herald (2019)
Fast-forward to 1:53 to hear Alina perform the Finale of Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor with pianist Julia Gurvitch, recorded in Israel 2018.
“The symphony listened in silence as Kobialka took the room on an emotional journey of remembrance and sorrow…”
Spinning Platters (2016)
“Kobialka’s sensitive playing was spellbinding, easily the highlight of the day’s program.”
Benicia Herald (2015)
“…Alina Ming Kobialka gave a clinic in technique that left the large Reynolds Hall audience wildly enthusiastic and calling for more, which Kobialka provided…”
Las Vegas Review-Journal (2014)
“Kobialka's virtuoso solos impressed all the more…received by appreciative shuffling of feet in the orchestra.”
San Francisco Classical Voice (2014)
Listen to Alina’s interview and performance of Franz Waxman’s Carmen Fantasy on NPR’s From the Top, recorded in April 2012.
“…the afternoon reached and sustained its peak in the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, with the jaw-droppingly assured Alina Ming Kobialka, 14, as the soloist…”
San Francisco Classical Voice (2011)
“…the rock star of the day was Alina Kobialka, playing Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major…”
Stark Insider (2011)
“To say that she is mature beyond her years would be an understatement. Her technique and expressiveness were first-rate for a person of any age.”
Lee Ann Crocker, SF Symphony bass (2010)