Baiba Skride (born 19 February 1981) is a Latvian classical violinist.[1][2][3][4] She was the winner of the Queen Elisabeth Violin Contest in 2001.
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| Background information | |
| Born | 19 February 1981 |
| Origin | Rīga, Latvian SSR |
| Genres | Classical music |
| Occupation | violinist |
| Years active | 1990s– |
Background and studies
editBaiba 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.[5]
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.[6]
Skride has performed around the world, including with the London Philharmonic Orchestra,[7][8] and New Zealand Symphony Orchestra[9][10]
Instruments
editBaiba 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.[11] She now plays the Yfrah Neaman Stradivarius loaned to her by the Neaman family through the Beares International Violin Society.[12] Her sisters are Lauma Skride, a pianist, and Linda Skride who plays viola.
Awards
edit- 1995: 1st prize at the International Violin Competition in Schöntal Monastery[13]
- 1996: finalist at the 8th Eurovision Competition in Lisbon[14]
- 1997: 1st prize at the International Violin Competition "Jeunesses Musicales" in Bucharest[13]
- 1998: 2nd prize at the Paganini Competition[15]
- 2001: 1st prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition for violin[16][17][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
editUntil 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.
- 1998: "The Skride Sisters" – Works by Raimonds Pauls, Maurice Ravel, Johan Halvorsen, Eugène Ysaÿe, Johann Christian Bach, Emīls Dārziņš, Latvian Folk Song, Kurt Atterberg, Franz Liszt and Pablo de Sarasate with Linda Skride, Lauma Skride, Liga Skride and others (Higashikawa – Latvia Music Association)
- 2004: Works by Bach, Béla Bartók and Eugène Ysaÿe for violin solo (Sony Classical)
- 2004: Violin Concertos by Mozart, Michael Haydn and Franz 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: Violin Concerto by Brahms 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 Stravinsky and Frank Martin, Pacific 231 and Rugby by 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 Vassili Petrenko; Myths 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)
Personal life
editAs of 2010, she was living in Hamburg with her husband and 2-year-old son;[23] by 2017, they had 2 children.[24]
References
edit- ^ Review at www.mspmag.com Archived 2008-07-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "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 - ^ Classic FM Magazine: "A natural musician to the ends of her fingertips" prestoclassical.co.uk, accessed 9 June 2018
- ^ Artist: Soloist- Baiba Skride- Violin Archived 2018-06-12 at the Wayback Machine kdschmid.de, accessed 9 June 2018
- ^ Interview with Baiba Skride YouTube (3:56 Min., specifically between 0:15 and 0:25)
- ^ "Sandelholz und Silber"/Sandalwood and silver In: Die Zeit, Nr. 36, 26. August 2004.
- ^ "sonyclassical.de". Archived from the original on 2007-10-06. Retrieved 2008-05-24.
- ^ Baiba Skride, violin ...has appeared with prestigious orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, London Philharmonic Orchestra... Archived 2019-05-18 at the Wayback Machine bsomusic.org, accessed 9 June 2018
- ^ "eventfinder.co.nz". Archived from the original on 2008-05-06. Retrieved 2008-05-24.
- ^ 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
- ^ "Willkommen". Baiba Skride. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
- ^ Biography baiba-skride.com, accessed 9 June 2018
- ^ a b "Baiba Skride". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). 6 November 2009. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ^ "La violoniste Baiba Skride (3/5)". France Musique (in French). 28 March 2021. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ^ "Baiba Skride gewinnt Wettbewerb Premio Rodolfo Lipizer in Italien". idw (in German). Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ^ "Detail". Concours Reine Elisabeth. 24 May 2001. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ^ "FLASHBACK FRIDAY - Baiba Skride - Queen Elisabeth Competition 1st Prize 2001". theviolinchannel.com. 12 April 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
- ^ kohm. "kohm: : Hitting a High Note (2008-05-11)". Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
- ^ 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..." Archived 2019-05-18 at the Wayback Machine kissingersommer.de, accessed 13 June 2018
- ^ "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 Archived 2019-05-18 at the Wayback Machine sonymusic.de, accessed 11 June 2018
- ^ 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
- ^ Stefan Schickhaus: Die Draufgängerin. In: Frankfurter Rundschau, 16. Januar 2007
- ^ 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)
- ^ Interview with Baiba Skride haz.de, 11. February 2017