Baiba Skride
Violinist Baiba Skride parlayed prominent competition wins early in her career into international concert prominence. She is also a noted chamber music player.
Skride was born in the Latvian capital of Riga on February 19, 1981. She grew up in a musical family; she, along with sisters Lauma (piano) and Linda (viola), took their first music lessons from their grandmother, and they have continued to perform together. Skride's mother was a pianist, and her father was a choral conductor. By age five, Skride was concertizing on the violin. She enrolled in 1995 in a school for musically talented youngsters in Riga and then in the Rostock Conservatory in Germany, commuting for a time between the two cities. In Rostock, her teacher was Petru Munteanu. Skride also took master classes with Ruggiero Ricci and Lewis Kaplan. Her record of competition prizes, which dated back to a youth event in Bulgaria in 1988, culminated in a win at the 2001 Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition in Brussels. That led to concerto appearances with top orchestras all over Europe, North America, and Asia, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Tokyo Philharmonic. As a chamber musician, she has been joined by cellists Sol Gabetta and Alban Gerhardt and harpist Xavier de Maistre, among many others. For a time, Skride performed on the 1734 "Ex Baron Feilitzsch" Stradivarius, owned by violinist Gidon Kremer.
Skride has been a prolific recording artist. In her early twenties, she was signed to the Sony Classical label, replacing Hilary Hahn on its roster when the latter moved to Deutsche Grammophon. Her recording debut was an album of Mozart and Haydn violin concertos with the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Chamber Orchestra. Two of her Sony albums won the prestigious Echo Klassik awards in Germany. After her 2008 album Souvenir Russe, she signed with the Orfeo label, where she has continued to issue new albums almost annually. She has focused mostly on standard repertory but was featured on a recording of composer Heino Eller's violin concerto on Ondine in 2018; that year, she also issued a recording of violin concertos by Bernstein, Korngold, and Miklos Rósza. In 2020, Skride released a new recording of Mozart's five violin concertos with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra under conductor Eivind Aadland, featuring new cadenzas by Skride herself. Skride returned on Orfeo in 2022 with the album Violin Unlimited, featuring solo violin sonatas, and in 2024, she was heard on a recording of Britten's Violin Concerto with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony, conducted by Marin Alsop.
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Discography
17 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Britten: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 15 & Double Concerto for Violin, Viola & Orchestra in B Minor
Baiba Skride, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop, Ivan Vukcevic
Concertos - Released by Orfeo on Feb 2, 2024
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Bartók : Works for Violin & Orchestra
Baiba Skride, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Eivind Aadland
Classical - Released by Orfeo on Sep 13, 2019
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mozart, Brahms & Mahler: Piano Quartets
Skride Piano Quartet, Baiba Skride, Lise Berthaud, Harriet Krijgh, Lauma Skride
Chamber Music - Released by Orfeo on Feb 1, 2019
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Eller: Violin Concerto, Fantasy, Symphonic Legend & Symphony No. 2
Baiba Skride, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Olari Elts
Classical - Released by Ondine on Nov 9, 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major & 21 Hungarian Dances
Baiba Skride, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Lauma Skride, Sakari Oramo
Classical - Released by Orfeo on Jul 26, 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Schumann: Violin Concertos & Phantasie in C Major, Op. 131
Baiba Skride, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, John Storgårds
Classical - Released by Orfeo on Sep 2, 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Violin Unlimited
Classical - Released by Orfeo on May 6, 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Sibelius & Nielsen: Violin Works
Baiba Skride, Tampere Filharmonia, Santtu-Matias Rouvali
Classical - Released by Orfeo on Aug 28, 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
American Concertos
Baiba Skride, Göteborgs Symfoniker, Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Santtu Matias Rouvali
Classical - Released by Orfeo on Aug 31, 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Stravinsky, Martin & Honegger: Violin Concertos & Orchestral Works
Baiba Skride, BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Thierry Fischer
Classical - Released by Orfeo on Jun 4, 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 1-5
Baiba Skride, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Eivind Aadland
Classical - Released by Orfeo on Sep 4, 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Lee Bradshaw: The Ties That Bind
Baiba Skride, Harriet Krijgh, Ivan Vukcevic
Chamber Music - Released by Navona on Aug 26, 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Szymanowski: Violin Concertos & Mythes
Classical - Released by Orfeo on Aug 25, 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Souvenir Russe
Symphonic Music - Released by Sony Classical - Sony Music on Jan 18, 2008
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Baiba Skride Violin
Classical - Released by Sony Classical - Sony Music on Feb 2, 2004
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Shostakovich/Janacek: Violinkonzerte
Classical - Released by Sony Classical - Sony Music on Jan 1, 2005
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo