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SIBELIUS VIOLIN CONCERTO
Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony
Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des
Bayerischen Rundfunks, Orchestre de
Paris, London Philharmonic Orchestra,
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and NHK
Symphony Orchestra. Notable conductors
she collaborates with include Olari Elts,
Christoph Eschenbach, Ed Gardner,
Susanna Mälkki, Andris Nelsons, Andrés
Orozco-Estrada, Santtu-Matias Rouvali,
Vasily Petrenko, Andris Poga, Yannick
Nézet-Séguin, Dima Slobodeniouk, Tugan
Sokhiev, John Storgårds and Xian Zhang.
In the 2017–18 season, Skride returned
to the Berlin Philharmonic for the third
time in 8 years, playing Shostakovich’s
Violin Concerto No. 2 under Dima
Slobodeniouk’s baton. Further highlights
included performances with the New York
Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus
Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of
Wales, Royal Scottish National Orchestra,
Orchestre national du Capitole de
Toulouse, Orchestre Philharmonique du
Luxembourg and a tour of Spain with
the Copenhagen Philharmonic and Lahti
Symphony Orchestra with a concert at
Stockholm’s Konserthuset. In Asia she
returned to NHK Symphony Orchestra
and she made her debut with Hong Kong
and Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestras.
Skride’s special relationship and
admiration for Sofia Gubaidulina’s music
reached another climax at the world
premiere of Gubaidulina’s Triple Concerto
for violin, cello and bayan with the Boston
Symphony Orchestra in February 2017.
Skride also gave national premieres of
the Triple Concerto with Netherlands
Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR
Radiophilharmonie Hannover and
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio
France in Paris in the 2017–18 season.
Skride is an internationally sought-after
chamber musician. She recently formed
the Skride Quartet with Lauma Skride,
Harriet Krijgh and Lise Berthaud. In
the 2017–18 season, invitations took
them to the International Chamber
Music Festival Utrecht, Schubertiade
and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. In
the same season she also performed in
quintet with Alban Gerhardt, Brett Dean,
Gergana Gergova and Amihai Grosz
in performances at the Muziekgebouw
Amerstdam, Philharmonie Luxembourg
and Tonhalle, Zürich.
She was born into a musical family in
Riga, Latvia, where she began her studies,
enrolling at the Rostock University of
Music and Theatre in 1995. In 2001 she
won First Prize of the Queen Elisabeth
Competition. Skride plays the Yfrah
Neaman Stradivarius kindly loaned to her
by the Neaman family through the Beares
International Violin Society.
Baiba Skride last appeared with
the BSO in March 2014, performing
Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto,
Yan-Pascal Tortelier, conductor.
About the Concert SUNDAYS @7:30PM
SIEGFRIED IDYLL CHAMBER MUSIC BY
CANDLELIGHT
Richard Wagner
All Chamber Music by Candlelight
concerts are programmed
and performed by
Born in Leipzig, Germany, May 22, 1813;
died in Venice, Italy, February 13, 1883
Siegfried Idyll was perhaps the most
sublime gift a composer ever gave to a
spouse. In this case Richard Wagner was
thinking of Cosima Liszt von Bülow,
who had become his wife the previous
August, and their infant son, whom
they named Siegfried, after the hero of
Wagner’s Ring tetralogy.
Siegfried Idyll was a combined
birthday and Christmas present for
Cosima on her 33 rd birthday, December
25, 1870. Early that morning, Wagner
and 13 musicians crept up the staircase
leading to the Wagner bedroom and
roused Cosima with their music. “When
I woke up I heard a sound,” she recalled
in her diary, “it grew ever louder, I could
no longer imagine myself in a dream,
music was sounding, and what music!
After it had died away, R. came in to
me with the five children and put into
my hands the score of his ‘symphonic
birthday present.’ I was in tears, but so,
too, was the whole household.”
Wagner initially called the score the
Tribschen Idyll and intended to keep it a
private piece for the family. Only years
later when he was again buried in debt

BALTIMORE SYMPHONY
MUSICIANS
FEB 10, 2019
MAR 17, 2019
MAR 31, 2019
MAY 12, 2019
JUN 09, 2019 (7:00PM)
SUNDAYS @3:30PM
JAN 27, 2019
KINGA AUGUSTYN, VIOLIN
FEB 24, 2019
SAM POST & KASSIA MUSIC COLLECTIVE
MAR 10, 2019
MICHAEL ADCOCK, PIANO
APR 28, 2019
WONDERLIC VOICE CONCERT
MAY 19, 2019
CHRYSTAL E. WILLIAMS, MEZZO-SOPRANO
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