Baiba Skride

Baiba Skride (born 1981) is a Latvian classical violinist.[1][2][3][4][5] She was the winner of the Queen Elisabeth Violin Contest in 2001,[6][7][8] and has performed around the world. Including the London Philharmonic Orchestra,[9][10] and New Zealand Symphony Orchestra[11][12]

Baiba Skride
Background information
Born (1981-02-19) 19 February 1981
OriginRīga, Latvian SSR
GenresClassical music
Occupation(s)violinist
Years active1990s–

Background and studies

Baiba Skride comes from a very musical Latvian family: her love of music comes from her grandmother who taught her and her two sisters to sing. Her father was a famous choral conductor, and her mother plays the piano. Her sister Lauma Skride, one year younger, also plays the piano, while her two-year-older sister Linda plays the viola. In Latvia, as a three-year-old she attended a music school. At the age of four, she was already playing the violin, and just before the age of five she gave her first concert.[13]

Later, she attended a special school for musical talents in Riga. From 1995 she studied at the Conservatory of Music and Theatre in Rostock with Petru Munteanu. For a long time she commuted between the special school in Riga and the college in Rostock. She has taken masterclasses with Ruggiero Ricci and Lewis Kaplan.[14]

Instruments

Baiba Skride previously played the Stradivarius "Wilhelmj" violin (1725), which was on loan to her from the Nippon Music Foundation, and then the "Ex Baron Feilitzsch" Stradivarius violin (1734), which was loaned to her from Gidon Kremer.[15] She now plays the Yfrah Neaman Stradivarius loaned to her by the Neaman family through the Beares International Violin Society.[16] Her sisters are Lauma Skride, a pianist, and Linda Skride who plays viola.

Awards
  • 1988: 1st prize at an international music festival in Bulgaria
  • 1992: Grand Prix at the UNICEF International Competition "The Danny Kaye International Children's Award"
  • 1995: 1st prize at the International Violin Competition in Schöntal Monastery[17]
  • 1996: finalist at 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 Queen Elisabeth Competition for violin[18]
  • 2003: Luitpold Prize (German: Luitpoldpreis) of the festival Kissinger Sommer[19]
  • 2005: Echo Klassik, Best Young Artist Award for their debut CDs[20]
  • 2006: Echo Klassik in the category "Concert Recording of the Year, Music of the 20th/21st Centuries" for the recording of violin concertos by Shostakovich and Janáček[21]

Discography

Until 2008, Baiba Skride was under an exclusive contract with Sony. She took the place of Hilary Hahn, who had switched to Deutsche Grammophon.[22] Since then she has collaborated with the music label Orfeo.

Personal life

As of 2010, she was living in Hamburg with her husband and 2-year-old son;[23] by 2017, they had 2 children.[24]

References
  1. Review at www.mspmag.com Archived 2008-07-04 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "One of the most exciting young talents to have emerged since Itzhak Perlman burst upon the scene in the late 1960s. Skride possesses the rare ability to speak directly through her Stradivari in a way that has one completely forgetting the mechanics of a 'violinist at work'. The fact that hers is a live concert recording makes her achievement seem all the more staggering."
    Selection disc of the month – Shostakovich/Janáček, The Strad, June 2006
  3. "A natural musician to the ends of her fingertips", praised Classic FM Magazine kdschmid.co.uk/englisch
  4. Classic FM Magazine: "A natural musician to the ends of her fingertips" prestoclassical.co.uk, accessed 9 June 2018
  5. Artist: Soloist- Baiba Skride- Violin kdschmid.de, accessed 9 June 2018
  6. "ページが見つかりません - 日本音楽財団 Page not found - Nippon Music Foundation". 日本音楽財団. Retrieved 16 January 2016. Cite uses generic title (help)
  7. Nippon Music Foundation: About Instrument Loan Project nmf.or.jp, accessed 9 June 2018
  8. kohm. "kohm: : Hitting a High Note (2008-05-11)". Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  9. "sonyclassical.de". Archived from the original on 2007-10-06. Retrieved 2008-05-24.
  10. Baiba Skride, violin ...has appeared with prestigious orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, London Philharmonic Orchestra... bsomusic.org, accessed 9 June 2018
  11. "eventfinder.co.nz". Archived from the original on 2008-05-06. Retrieved 2008-05-24.
  12. JOHN BUTTON: Simone Young's sure-footed Bruckner not a moment too long REVIEW: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simone Young with Baiba Skride (violin), August 30 2015 stuff.co.nz, accessed 9 June 2018
  13. Interview with Baiba Skride YouTube (3:56 Min., specifically between 0:15 and 0:25)
  14. "Sandelholz und Silber"/Sandalwood and silver In: Die Zeit, Nr. 36, 26. August 2004.
  15. "Willkommen". Baiba Skride. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  16. Biography baiba-skride.com, accessed 9 June 2018
  17. Hohenlohe's International Violin Competition bachtrack.com, accessed 10 June 2018
  18. Queen Elisabeth Competition baiba skride cmireb.be, accessed 10 June 2018
  19. Kissinger Sommer: For the Kissinger Sommer the members of the sponsorship association are more than just founders "Since 1999 the association also awards new artists with the Luitpoldpreis, worth € 5,000. ...award winners are ...Baiba Skride..." kissingersommer.de, accessed 13 June 2018
  20. "Sie gewann damit den Echo Klassikpreis der Deutschen Phonoakademie als beste Nachwuchskünstlerin." She won the Echo Klassikpreis of the German Phonoakademie as best young talent sonymusic.de, accessed 11 June 2018
  21. Matthew Westphal, Vivien Schweitzer "Germany's ECHO-Klassik Prize Winners Include Barenboim, Harnoncourt, Fleming, Schwarzkopf — And Two Head-Scratchers" 29 June 2006, playbill.com, accessed 10 June 2018
  22. Stefan Schickhaus: Die Draufgängerin. In: Frankfurter Rundschau, 16. Januar 2007
  23. As stated on BBC Radio 3's In Tune program, 6 April 2010 '06/04/2010 Baiba Skride, Mark Morris, Jane Glover' (episode no longer available, June 2018)
  24. Interview with Baiba Skride haz.de, 11. February 2017
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