Gobetti Duo 
Anna Ovsyanikova, violin
Sally Wigan, piano

Fritz Kreisler. La Gitana (extract, live performance)

Claude Debussy. Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor, L 140
Anna Ovsyanikova, violin
Mark Fielding, piano

Debussy Violin Sonata live performance

Live performance at St Bride's Church, City of London
Mathieu Crickboom, Sonata for Violin and Piano Op. 11

Mathieu Crickboom (1871 – 1947) was a Belgian violinist, who was born in Verviers (Hodimont) and died in Brussels.

Crickboom was the student of Eugène Ysaÿe, who dedicated to him his Sonata No. 5 for Solo Violin. Crickboom also played second violin in the Ysaÿe Quartet. Ernest Chausson dedicated his string quartet to Crickboom.

Crickboom lived for a while in Barcelona, where he directed a violin school and a concert society. The year 1897 saw the formation of Crickboom's own quartet, with Pablo Casals, cello; Josep Rocabruna, second violin; and Rafael Gálvez, viola.

Having returned to Belgium, he became a professor at the Conservatoire of Liège and later at the Conservatoire of Brussels. It was in Brussels that he spent most of his later life. He edited numerous violin concertos by great composers of the 18th and 19th centuries, but his principal work was his violin method, arranged into progressive etudes, duos, popular melodies and technical themes. Most of the pieces in this method were by great violin pedagogues of the 19th century, though some were by Crickboom himself.


Highlights from live performance of Mathieu Crickboom Sonata for Violin and Piano Op. 11

Violin - Anna Ovsyanikova
Piano - Sally Wigan

Shostakovich Prelude XVI from 4 Preludes, Op. 34

Poulenc Violin Sonata 3 movement

Sonata No. 5

Ysaÿe Sonata for Violin No. 5 mov. II 'Danse Rustique'

Extract of Chausson 'Poeme'
Anna Ovsyanikova, violin
West Forest Sinfonia
Martin Smith, conductor

Chausson 'Poeme' (extract, live with West Forest Sinfonia)

Anna Ovsyanikova is a classical violinist regularly performing as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician.

As a recitalist and chamber musicians she has performed in venues including Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, Royal Festival Hall and Purcell Room, Embassy of Russia in the UK, Birmingham Symphony and Birmingham Town Hall.

Anna has led orchestras conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, Andris Nelson and Martyn Brabbins amongst others. She has co-led under Semyon Bychkov, Leif Segerstam and accompanied instrumental soloists including Mitsuko Uchida, Martha Argerich and Natalia Gutman.

As a member of London Contemporary Orchestra she recorded tracks and performed with artists including Thom Yorke, Beck, Frank Ocean, Goldfrapp, Donovan, Jimmy Page and Jonny Greenwood from Radiohead.

Originally from Russia, at the age of 16 Anna Ovsyanikova made her international debut in Germany and went on to study in the UK, completing her studies at the Royal Academy of Music for Masters where she graduated from the Masters programme with distinction and DipRAM - the highest possible award. She is also an alumna of Birmingham Conservatoire and Rimsky-Korsakov Pre Conservatory of Music in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Anna has established a reputation as a soloist, having won several concerto competitions and performing concertos with Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of the City, Royal Academy Symphony Orchestra, Dinu Lipatti Philharmonic in Romania amongst many others. Dedicated orchestral leader, she has led all Birmingham Conservatoire and Royal Academy Symphony orchestras as well as CBSO Youth, Cheltenham Festival Orchestra, YMSO and Bombay Chamber Orchestra (India). She has had a year with LPO as their Foyle Future Firsts violinist. Presently she appears as a freelance player with different London orchestras including the orchestra of the Royal Opera House. At the Royal Opera House she had to privilege to work with such opera singers as Jonas Kaufmann, Elina Garanča, Bryn Terfel, Ludovic Tézier amongst others.