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15 June 23:00
Concert by Baiba Skride & friends
At the Baiba Skride & Friends concert, the brilliant Latvian violinist will be joined by several internationally acclaimed musicians – the Bulgarian violinist Gergana Gergova, the Australian violist Brett Dean, the German violist Nils Mönkemeyer and the German cellist Alban Gerhardt.
The programme will feature string quintets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johannes Brahms as well as the opus Epitaphs by Brett Dean, a personal tribute to five friends and colleagues who died within the space of little more than a year.
The concert will be held on 15 June at 20:00 at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels (Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles, Rue de la Régence 30).
In June, the ensemble will perform this programme in several German towns and cities – Bad Kissingen, Coesfeld, Essen, Kempen, Neumarkt und Stralsund – as well as at the famous Wigmore Hall in London.
© Marco Borggreve
Baiba Skride (1981), whose playing has been compared to the voice of nature, currently lives in Hamburg and regularly performs throughout the world. Born into a musical family in Riga, she began her studies there before transferring in 1995 to the University of Music and Theatre in Rostock. In 2001, she won the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Music Competition in Brussels.
Since then she has performed on a regular basis with the world’s most prestigious orchestras and collaborated with numerous conductors. Baiba also performs chamber music concerts with the violinist Gidon Kremer, the violist Isabelle van Keulen, the cellist Sol Gabetta as well as her pianist sister, Lauma Skride. Baiba plays the ‘Ex Baron Feilitzsch’ Stradivarius violin (1734), which has been generously loaned to her by Gidon Kremer.
The Baiba Skride & Friends concert forms part of the Latvian EU Council Presidency cultural programme which has contemporaneity, uniqueness and excellence as its core values. It is organised by the Secretariat of the Latvian Presidency in cooperation with the Embassy of Latvia to Belgium and the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels.
