Baiba Skride

Baiba Skride’s natural approach to music-making has endeared her to many of today’s most prestigious conductors and orchestras worldwide. She performs regularly with orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the Orchestre de Paris. She enjoys close collaborations with conductors such as Marin Alsop, Christoph Eschenbach, Susanna Mälkki, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Andrés Orozco-Estrada. Recent and upcoming highlights for Baiba Skride include critically-acclaimed performances as part of the inaugural Shostakovich Festival as well as opening the season of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra as part of its centenary celebrations. In 2025, Baiba Skride released a recording of Shostakovich’s»Violin Concertos« with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons on Deutsche Grammophon, which was nominated for an OPUS KLASSIK Award. Her extensive discography also includes Gubaidulina’s Triple Concerto with the NDR Radiophilharmonie, Britten’s Violin Concerto and Double Concerto as well as all of Mozart’s violin concertos, Bartók’s concertos  with the WDR Sinfonieorchester, and works by Bernstein, Korngold and Rózsa. Baiba Skride is an internationally sought-after chamber musician and performs regularly at festivals and concert halls across the world. Skride is an advocate of new music and some of today’s most prominent composers, including Sofia Gubaidulina, Victoria Borisova-Ollas, Sebastian Currier and Hans Abrahamsen, have written concerti for her. Skride plays the »Yfrah Neaman« Stradivarius kindly on loan by the Neaman family through Beare’s International Violin Society.