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Baiba Skride, originally from Latvia, grew up in a musical family and began studying the violin in her hometown of Riga. From 1995 she was taught by Petru Munteanu at the Rostock University of Music and Drama, and in 2001 she won first prize at the Concours Reine Elisabeth in Brussels. Since then, she has made guest appearances with the world’s greatest orchestras including the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich; in these concerts, she will be making her debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker. Baiba Skride has worked with conductors such as Paavo und Neeme Järvi, Kirill Petrenko, Simone Young, Donald Runnicles, Mario Venzago, Thierry Fischer, as well as Andris Nelsons and Mikko Franck. Her most important chamber music partner is her sister, the pianist Lauma Skride, with whom, as a duo, she has celebrated successes worldwide for many years. She is “Artist in Residence” at the Usedom Music Festival, which this year is dedicated to Baiba Skrides’ homeland of Latvia. The artist plays the “Wilhelmj” violin by Antonio Stradivari from 1725, generously on loan to her by the Nippon Music Foundation.
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