![]() ![]() She has a large repertoire and is an immensely gifted and creative musician." Sara is a very promising talent." Professor Jadwiga Kaliszewska, 2009 "Sara Dragan is an extremely talented young violinist. 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 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. She played in most Polish Philharmonic Halls as well as was touring around Europe, Asia and USA. As a soloist, she gave concerts at Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Carnegie Hall, Rachmaninov Concert Hall in Moscow, Landovsky's Auditorium in Paris, Mozarteum in Salzburg, Auditorium Sony in Madrid, Polish Royal Palace in Warsaw etc. 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. Sauret) and Carmen Fantasie by F.Waxman with the accompaniment of the Opole Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Piotr Borkowski. At the age of 12 she played Violin Concerto No.1 in D-major by Niccolo Paganini (with the cadenza of E. She performed "Obertas" Henryk Wieniawski Obertas with the orchestra. Sara made her debut after 6 months of studying violin playing. USA Tour 2022, Sara Dragan was on 2 months tour in 17 states of the USA with the the Polish Wieniawski Philharmonic with the Tchaikovsky & Wieniawski concertos. She performed solo with such an orchestras as: the BVG Orchester Berlin, the RRCMC Moscow Orchestra, Royal Chamber Orchestra, Bohuslava Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak Sinfonietta, Uzbekistan National Symphony Orchestra, Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Sudeten Philharmonic Orchestra, Opole Philharmonic Orchestra, the Warmian-Masurian Philharmonic Orchestra and many others. ![]() She has already played hundreds of concerts as a soloist. Grannas says he once complained to Páez about problems getting a debtor to pay him back, and Páez offered to send a guy to “break his knees.Despite her young age, Sara won first prize / Grand Prix of about 60 violin competitions in Europe, Asia and USA, among others: International Violin H.Wieniawski & K.Lipinski Competition, New York International Artists Association Competition, International G.P.Telemann Violin Competition, International Global Music Partnership Competition. But the year before the murders, Páez was permanently disbarred by the Paraguayan Supreme Court of Justice for stealing funds from clients and business partners, and one colleague, Peter Tase, says he has a “violent attitude.” There are videos of him threatening his neighbors with his German shepherds. Fluent in German, he married a German woman and worked for both Steinmetz and Grannas as well. He’d studied law at Universidad Católica, the best university in Paraguay, then pursued postgraduate studies in Freiburg, Germany. Like von Bredow, he possesses a kind of dogged charisma, and for a while he looked good on paper, too. For reasons unknown, he retained Jimmy Páez, an attorney who liked to call himself “the devil’s advocate” because he had a habit of taking on tough cases, often suing Paraguayan authorities for alleged corruption. When he was alive, von Bredow made a questionable choice of legal counsel. ![]()
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