Kremerata Baltica

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Gidon Kremer 2008

Kremerata Baltica is a Baltic chamber orchestra that was founded in 1997 by the Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer and in which soloists from the three Baltic states Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania have come together. It serves as a project for the development of Baltic culture and regional multinational cooperation. Gidon Kremer is also the artistic director.

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The orchestra's first appearance outside the Baltic region was at the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, which was also founded by Gidon Kremer, in 1997 in Austria ; it impressed with its professionalism and enthusiasm for playing.

Since its inception, Kremerata Baltica has given more than 70 concerts in Germany , Austria, Switzerland , Great Britain , Japan , the United States and other countries. In renowned concert halls, opera houses and festivals such as the Carnegie Hall in the US, Schloss Neuhardenberg in Brandenburg , Schloss Elmau in Klais , the Philharmonie Gasteig in Munich , Esterházy Palace , Lockenhaus, Vienna Musikverein , the Rudolfinum in Prague , the Royal Albert Hall was Kremerata Baltica takes off his business card.

Festival stations of the orchestra included the Salzburg Festival , the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , the Prague Spring Festival , The Proms in London , the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival, etc. Kremerata Baltica has organized its own festival since 2003 in Sigulda in Latvia.

After making a guest appearance at the Los Angeles Concert Hall in 2000, the orchestra celebrated its twentieth anniversary and Gidon Kremer's seventieth birthday in 2017, which prompted Los Angeles Times reporter John von Rhein to comment that the festive performance was only going through the uninhibited coughing of some people in the audience was disturbed. It was a happy occasion, marred only by the unrestrained coughing of some audience members.

As artistic director of the orchestra, Gidon Kremer also repeatedly engages prominent soloists who support the orchestra with their repertoire from time to time. These include, for example, the soprano Jessye Norman ; the pianist Martha Argerich and pianists Mikhail Pletnev , Evgeny Kissin , Oleg Maisenberg , Daniil Trifonov ; the violinists Thomas Zehetmair , Vadim Repin and Tatiana Grindenko ; the cellists Boris Mironowitsch Pergamenschtschikow , Yo-Yo Ma , Mischa Maisky , David Geringas ; and the conductors Sir Simon Rattle , Esa-Pekka Salonen , Christoph Eschenbach , Kent Nagano , Heinz Holliger , Vladimir Ashkenazy , Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla .

On the occasion of the seventh anniversary of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya , on October 9, 2013, German artists in Berlin commemorated the victims of political persecution in Russia. As part of this event, Kremer and his ensemble and the artistic support of Daniel Barenboim , Martha Argerichs, Khatia Buniatishvilis , Daniel Pahud and Sergei Nakariakovs performed a highly acclaimed concert entitled To Russia with Love in the chamber music hall of the Berlin Philharmonic .

Also in 2013, Kremer and Kremerata Baltica worked closely with the well-known Russian clown and pantomime Slava Polunin and his Academy of Fools . Finally, the ensemble started the Masks and Faces project with Kremer and the Russian painter, polemicist and philosopher Maxim Kantor . Kremer's last collaboration with his orchestra began in 2015 under the catchphrase Pictures from the East and with the Syrian sculptor Nizar Ali Badr , addressing the armed conflict in the Middle East and the associated refugee problem in Europe.

With his Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer pays particular attention to compositions that often receive little attention outside the mainstream. This gave rise to numerous premieres by composers such as Arvo Pärt , Giya Kancheli , Peteris Vasks , Leonid Desyatnikov , Alexander Raskatov , Artūrs Muscat .

The chamber orchestra is financially supported by the three Baltic states.

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Individual evidence

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