Grieg: Sonata for violin & piano no.3 in C minor, Op.45
Bartok: Sonata for violin & piano no.2, Sz.76
Beethoven: Sonata for Violin & piano "Kreutzer", no.9 op.47
A winner of multiple National awards in her home country of New Zealand, Alexandra Lomeiko moved to London to study at the Purcell School of Music in 2006. Through her studies there, she had her solo recital debut at Wigmore Hall in October 2009.
She was an RCM Lark Scholar supported by a Leverhulme Postgraduate Studentship and by awards from the Countess of Munster Trust, the Martin Music Scholarship Fund, the Drake Calleja Foundation and the Help Musicians UK Foundation. An active participant in masterclasses, she performed as a soloist in the RCM Brahms Violin Concerto Masterclass with Maxim Vengerov (2017) she has also performed in the Pyeongchang Music Festival Masterclasses with Mihaela Martin (2016), International Holland Music Sessions with Krzysztof Wegrzyn (2016), IMS Prussia Cove Masterclasses with Ivry Gitlis and Philippe Graffin (2015) and the Kronberg Academy Violin Masterclasses with Pavel Vernikov (2015). Alex is also active as a chamber musician, performing regularly with Ensemble Mirage amongst others, and enjoys freelancing as a concertmaster, having led orchestras under conductors such as Jaime Martin, Peter Csaba, Vladimir Jurowski, John Storgårds and Bernard Haitink.
Ana Gogava was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1992. At the age of eight she entered the Z. Paliashvili School for musically gifted pupils in Tbilisi.
The first of her successes was at the European Union of Music for Youth Competition ( EMCY ) in 2002 where she was awarded a diploma, medal and scholarship for further study. Many other prizewinning achievements were to follow most notably 1st Prize at the N.Gabunia national competition in Georgia, 1st Prize in the VIIth and IXth V. Krainev International Competitions in Ukraine and 1st Prize in the VIIth international N. Rubinstein Competition in Paris in 2007.
Ana Gogava has participated in master-classes given by artists such as Imogen Cooper, Vladimir Krainev and Michel Sogny, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Richard Goode and has received scholarships from the President of Georgia, Elizabeth Leonskaya and the Sogny Foundation. She has given recital and concerto performances not only in Georgia, but also in Spain, Russia, Azerbaijan, Austria as well as Holland, where in 2010 she won 1st Prize in the Enschede international competition for Young Pianists. In June 2015 she was awarded by Hortense Anda prize for the “ most talented young pianist” at Geza Anda International Piano competition. In 2015 and 2016 Ana Gogava was awarded by Help Musicians Trust, Martin Musical Trust and English Speaking Union ( ESU) to take a part at Piano Master Classes at Banff Centre in Canada. In July 2017 and 2018 Ana participated at Oxford Philharmonic Piano Festival.
Ana Gogava successfully completed her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where she studied with Professor Philip Jenkins.
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