Still in her mid-twenties, Baiba Skride has appeared with such orchestras as the Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunk, Munich Philharmonic, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, Orchestre de Paris, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony, Residentie Orkest and the US orchestras of Philadelphia, Houston, Cincinnati and Detroit. Conductors Skride regularly collaborates with include Charles Dutoit, Thierry Fischer, Mark Janowski, Paavo Järvi, Neeme Järvi, Mikhail Pletnev, John Storgårds and with her peers, Mikko Franck, Andris Nelsons and Kirill Petrenko.
Summer 2009 saw her make her Edinburgh International Festival debut with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Donald Runnicles. As a regular at Germany’s Music Festivals, she returned with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and Sakari Oramo to the Rheingau Festival. Highlights in Skride’s 2009/10 season include an extensive tour of Germany with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons, as well as appearances with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra with Vasily Petrenko, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Thierry Fischer and the Dresdner Philharmonie.
Forthcoming appearances include her much anticipated debut with the Berlin Philharmonic playing Berg “To the memory of an Angel” and with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, which is followed by three concerts with the Bavarian State Opera orchestra with Gubaidulina’s “Offertorium”. In the USA Skride gives her Hollywood Bowl debut with the LA Philharmonic. She returns to the Houston Symphony with Yan-Pascal Tortelier and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, joined by Lauma Skride and Jan Vogler in a performance of Beethoven Triple under John Storgårds.
In the 2009 Mendelssohn anniversary year, Skride championed the Double Concerto with her long-established duo partner Lauma Skride with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Tapiola Sinfonietta, the Züricher Kammerorchester and Warsaw Philharmonic. Recital appearances include Leipzig, Frankfurt, a return to Tokyo, Osaka as well as to San Francisco and Cincinnati.
Skride has been recording for Sony Classical since 2004. Her highly praised discography was recently highlighted with a Tchaikovsky CD with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons. She released a first duo recording with her sister (Schubert, Beethoven, Ravel) as well as a solo violin disc (Ysaye, Bartok, Bach) and two concerto discs (Mozart, Schubert, Michael Haydn and Shostakovich, Janacek).
Baiba Skride was born into a musical Latvian family in Riga where she began her studies, transferring in 1995 to the Conservatory of Music and Theatre in Rostock. In 2001 she won the 1st prize of the Queen Elisabeth Competition.
Baiba Skride plays the Stradivarius "Wilhelmj" violin (1725), which is generously on loan to her from the Nippon Music Foundation, with whom she will be on tour in Graz, Firenze and Paris.
