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Inner Worlds Baiba Skride BAIBA SKRIDE VIOLIN “Every so often a violinist INNER WORLDS comes along who also has something more important: BAIBA SKRIDE GREAT PERFORMERS 2016 the capacity to draw the 23 AUGUST 2016, ELISABETH MURDOCH HALL listener in as well as to impress, with characterisations Latvia’s angel of the violin Baiba Skride will grace the Melbourne Recital Centre in August with her intuitive to match. This young Latvian renditions of Mozart, Brahms and Shostakovich. player has all of this, and Known for her natural affinity with the classics, Skride has been described as having the ability to ‘play then some.” everything from Mozart to Shostakovich and make it seem like it was written for her.’ BBC Music Magazine “I’ve always found her performances to be full of joy and her easy, natural manner on stage indicates an artist who revels in the beauty and power of the recital platform,” said Head of Artistic Planning Marshall McGuire. Skide’s unexpected selection for this recital exposes the dark side of the great composers with Mozart’s Baiba Skride’s natural approach to her music- short sonata and it’s melancholy closing dance, Schuman’s fantasy pieces and Brahm’s irresolute Sonata. making has endeared her to some of today’s most They all lead up to Shostakovich’s late violin sonata with its uncompromising qualities all played on her 1734 important conductors and orchestras worldwide. Stradivarius. She is consistently invited for her refreshing in- terpretations, her sensitivity and delight in the “The stage is where my inspiration comes from,” Skride said. In a performance “there are many things music. The list of prestigious orchestras with whom which come together – the right repertoire, congenial partners, the orchestra. There are lots of pieces which she has worked include the Berlin Philharmonic, need to fit, but what matters to me most is simply giving everything you have in that very moment,” she said. Boston Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Orchestre de Paris, London “The moment you start playing, you immediately find yourself some place else.” Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony and NHK Symphony. Notable Skride has played with the world’s best including the Berlin and London Philharmonic’s and is the artist in conductors she collaborates with include Christoph residence at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Eschenbach, Paavo and Neeme Järvi, Andris Nelsons, Sakari Oramo, Vasily Petrenko, Yannick The Hamburg based musician will bring her music to Melbourne audiences in a charming performance Nézet-Séguin, Jukka Pekka Saraste and John alongside associate artist pianist Daniel de Borah. Their performance will appeal to anyone who enjoys Storgårds. classical music or wants to feel consumed by the beauty and melancholy of the violin. European highlights in 2015/16 include her return to Berlin Philharmonic with Andris Nelsons play- ing Shostakovich violin concerto No.1 and her PROGRAM DETAILS: EVENT BOOKING DETAILS: debut with the Concertgebouw Orkest Amsterdam with Britten’s violin concerto. Skride is Artist in Mozart Sonata for piano and violin in E minor, K.304 23 August 2016 7.30pm Residence with the City of Birmingham Symphony Schumann Three Fantasy Pieces, Op.73 Elisabeth Murdoch Hall Orchestra, with which she gives concerto and Brahms Violin Sonata in E-flat, Op.120 Melbourne Recital Centre, (originally for clarinet) Cnr Southbank Blvd and Sturt Sts, Southbank chamber music performances. She returns to Shostakovich Violin Sonata, Op.134 Duration: 1 hour 40 mins (inc. interval) Stock- holm, Oslo and Helsinki Philharmonic, Tickets: from $50 - $115 Iceland Symphony, BBC National Orchestra of Subscription packages: start from $120 Wales, Roy- al Scottish National, Zurich Opera Skride will perform at the Sydney Opera House, alongside guest Transaction and delivery fees may apply. violin appearances with WASO and TSO. Booking: melbournerecital.com.au or 03 9699 3333 Orchestra and Hamburger Philharmoniker. CONTACT baiba-skride.com Pia Johnson, Publicist : [email protected], 0413 450 951.
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