Baiba Skride

Baiba Skride ( born February 19, 1981 in Riga) is a Latvian violinist.

Life

Baiba Skride comes from a very musical family: Your love of music comes from the grandmother who taught her and her two sisters singing. Her father is a choral conductor, her mother plays the piano. Their one years younger sister Lauma Skride plays the piano, her two-year older sister Linda plays the viola. As Baiba was three years old, gave the trio its first concert. In Latvia they first attended a music school, then a special school for music talents in Riga. Since 1995, Baiba Skride studied at the Academy of Music and Theatre in Rostock with Petru Munteanu. They hovered for a long time between the special school in Riga and the University of Rostock. Today she lives in Hamburg. She has master classes with Ruggiero Ricci and Lewis Kaplan.

Chamber Music

Baiba Skride occurs along with her sister Lauma Skride as a chamber music duo in the world on: in the concert season 2006/2007 as in San Francisco, Vancouver, London, Madrid, Bologna, Dortmund and Hanover.

Recently, the sisters also occur with cellist Sol Gabetta on as a trio. Other chamber music partners are Renaud Capuçon, Gidon Kremer, Isabelle van Keulen, David Geringas, Emmanuel Pahud and Sharon Kam.

Soloist

In 2004 she made her debut at the Salzburg Festival.

The renowned orchestras with which Baiba Skride has performed as a soloist include:

• From Germany, the Munich Philharmonic, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig and the German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen
• From Europe, the London Philharmonia Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in Manchester, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of Copenhagen, Gothenburg and Malmö, the Hague Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Belgique, the Symphony Orchestra of Lahti and the Russian National Orchestra
• From the United States, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
• From Asia, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Tokyo and Seoul.

In the concert season 2006/2007 will be added include the following orchestras: the Orchestre de Paris under Jean -Claude Casadesus, the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Vladimir Jurowski, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Mikhail Pletnev, the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Holland, the Melbourne Symphony, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields under Sir Neville Marriner and the Big Five scoring Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Peter Oundjian.

Known conductors with whom she has collaborated include Paavo Berglund, Herbert Blomstedt, Charles Dutoit, Olari Elts, Mikko Franck, Hans Graf, Neeme Järvi, Paavo Järvi, Andris Nelsons, Kirill Petrenko, Storgårds and Vänskä.

Instrument

Baiba Skride since 2001, the Violin " Wilhelmj " by Antonio Stradivari in 1725, which is her loan from the Nippon Music Foundation and 2 million euro 's worth.

Since November 2010, she plays the Stradivarius "Ex Baron Feilitzsch " 1734, on loan from Gidon Kremer.

Awards

Discography

Since 2004 Baiba Skride is exclusive contract with Sony. Will take you there the place of Hilary Hahn, who has switched to Deutsche Grammophon.

• 2004: Baiba Skride: Bach, Bartók, Ysaÿe
• 2004: Baiba Skride: WA Mozart & M. Haydn - Violin Concertos
• 2006: Shostakovich & Janacek - Violin Concertos
• 2007: Baiba & Lauma Skride: The Duo Sessions - Beethoven, Schubert, Ravel
• 2008: "Souvenir Russe" Baiba Skrides homage to Tchaikovsky
• 2011: Baiba Skride: Johannes Brahms - Violin Concerto in D Major OP77 - 21 Hungarian Dances