Alena Hove

Alena Hove is listed as the violin soloist for a Santa Monica Symphony program titled "Voices of Hollywood," featuring the Korngold Violin Concerto alongside orchestral suites drawn from classic film scores. Beyond this listing, no verified biographical details are available.

The centerpiece of this program is Korngold's Violin Concerto in D major, a work built largely from melodies the composer wrote for 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films, so listeners can expect lush, singing violin lines that sound like they belong on a movie screen, with sweeping high passages and a bright, virtuosic finale. The rest of the concert surrounds that concerto with orchestral arrangements of famous film themes, including the swirling "Over the Rainbow" world of Arlen's Wizard of Oz suite, the propulsive rhythms of Bernstein's The Magnificent Seven, and the wide-open, folk-tinged trumpet and string writing of Barry's Out of Africa. A listener coming for the violin part should expect Hove's playing to carry the emotional through-line of the Korngold, since the solo violin is written to sing almost continuously above the orchestra.