Baiba Skride

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Baiba Skride (2012)

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

Life

education

Baiba Skride comes from a very musical family: Her love for music comes from her grandmother, who taught her and her two sisters to sing. Her father was an important choir conductor, her mother plays the piano . Her sister Lauma Skride , who is one year younger than her, also plays the piano, and her sister Linda, who is two years older, plays the viola . In Latvia she attended a music school at the age of three. She played the violin at the age of four and gave her first concert at the age of just under five.

Baiba Skride later attended a special school for musical talents in Riga. Since 1995 she has been studying with Petru Munteanu at the Rostock University of Music and Theater . For a long time she commuted between the special school in Riga and the university in Rostock . She has taken master classes with Ruggiero Ricci and Lewis Kaplan.

Soloist

Baiba Skride (2007)

In 2004 Baiba Skride made her debut at the Salzburg Festival .

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

Well-known conductors with whom she has worked include Paavo Berglund , Herbert Blomstedt , Jean-Claude Casadesus , Constantinos Carydis , Charles Dutoit , Olari Elts , Mikko Franck , Hans Graf , Hartmut Haenchen , Neeme Järvi , Paavo Järvi , Neville Marriner , Andris Nelsons , Peter Oundjian, Kirill Petrenko , Michail Pletnjow , John Storgårds and Osmo Vänskä .

Chamber music

Baiba Skride also performs as a chamber musician , together with partners such as Bertrand Chamayou and Lauma Skride (piano), Lise Berthaud and Brett Dean (viola), Sol Gabetta , Alban Gerhardt , Harriet Krijgh and Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Xavier de Maistre (Harp).

The three sisters Baiba, Linda and Lauma Skride still perform together today. Usually another chamber musician complements the Skride trio to form a quartet, for example the cellist Julian Steckel or the cellist Kristina Blaumane.

Instruments

Baiba Skride played the violin "Wilhelmj" by Antonio Stradivari from 1725 from February 2005 to November 2010, which was made available to her by the Nippon Music Foundation. The value of this Stradivarius was given in 2006 at 2 million euros.

From November 2010 she played the Stradivarius “Ex Baron Feilitzsch” from 1734 for five years, on loan from Gidon Kremer. She currently plays the Stradivarius "Yfrah Neaman", on loan from the Neaman family through the Beares International Violin Society.

Private

Baiba Skride lives in Hamburg with her husband and two children .

Awards

Baiba Skride
  • 1988: 1st prize at an international music festival in Bulgaria
  • 1992: Grand Prize at the international competition "The Danny Kaye International Children's Award"
  • 1995: 1st prizes at the international violin competition at Schöntal Abbey
  • 1996: Finalist in the 8th Eurovision competition in Lisbon
  • 1997: 1st prize at the international violin competition " Jeunesses Musicales " in Bucharest
  • 1998: 2nd prize at the Paganini competition
  • 2001: 1st prize at the Reine Elisabeth Concours for violin
  • 2003: Luitpold Prize of the Kissinger Sommer Festival
  • 2005: Echo Klassik , award as the best young artist for her debut CDs
  • 2006: Echo Klassik in the category “Concert Recording of the Year, Music of the 20th / 21st Century ”for recording the violin concertos by Shostakovich and Janáček

Discography

Until 2008, Baiba Skride was exclusively under contract with Sony . There she took the place of Hilary Hahn , who had switched to Deutsche Grammophon . Since then she has been working with the music label Orfeo.

  • 2004: Works by Bach , Bartók and Ysaÿe for violin solo (Sony Classical)
  • 2004: Violin concertos by Mozart , Michael Haydn and Schubert with the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Chamber Orchestra under Hartmut Haenchen (Sony Classical)
  • 2006: Violin concertos by Shostakovich and Janáček with the Munich Philharmonic under Mikko Franck (Sony Classical)
  • 2007: Works by Beethoven , Schubert and Ravel for violin and piano with Lauma Skride (Sony Classical)
  • 2008: "Souvenir Russe" - works by Tchaikovsky with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Andris Nelsons (Sony Classical)
  • 2011: Brahms Violin Concerto with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra under Sakari Oramo; 21 Hungarian Dances by Brahms, arranged for violin and piano, with Lauma Skride (Orfeo)
  • 2012: Violin Concertos by Igor Stravinsky and Frank Martin , Pacific 231 and Rugby by Arthur Honegger , with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Thierry Fischer (Orfeo)
  • 2013: Violin Concertos and Fantasy by Schumann with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra under John Storgårds (Orfeo)
  • 2014: Szymanowski , violin concertos with the Oslo Philharmonic under Vasily Petrenko; Mythen for violin and piano with Lauma Skride (Orfeo)
  • 2015: Violin concertos by Sibelius and Nielsen , two serenades by Sibelius, with the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra under Santtu-Matias Rouvali (Orfeo)
  • 2016: Sonatas and pieces for violin and piano by Grieg , Nielsen, Sibelius and Stenhammar , with Lauma Skride (Orfeo)

Web links

Commons : Baiba Skride  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Baiba Skride on YouTube (3:56 min., Here 0:15 to 0:25)
  2. ↑ Sandalholz und Silber In: Die Zeit , No. 36, August 26, 2004.
  3. ↑ a b biography baiba-skride.com
  4. ↑ The Skride sisters and Julian Steckel 2011 in Hitzacker at the 66th Summer Music Days Hitzacker , video on YouTube (4:29 min.)
  5. ^ Announcement of a concert with the Skride Trio and Julian Steckel at the Rheingau Music Festival 2013
  6. ↑ Family honor deutschlandfunkkultur.de, February 21, 2018.
  7. ↑ Instruments of the Nippon Music Foundation nmf.or.jp (English)
  8. ↑ Dirk Krampitz: Stradivari's dark force In: Welt am Sonntag , June 4, 2006
  9. ↑ a b Interview with Baiba Skride haz.de, February 11, 2017.
  10. ↑ Baiba Skride ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. leopold-mozart-competition.de (as of 2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.leopold-mozart-competition.de
  11. ↑ Baiba Skride sonymusic.de (as of 2008)
  12. ↑ Press release on the award of the Echo Klassik 2006 Deutsche Phono-Akademie, July 19, 2006.
  13. ↑ Stefan Schickhaus: The daredevil . In: Frankfurter Rundschau, January 16, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Skride, Baiba
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian violinist
DATE OF BIRTH 19th February 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga