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Baiba
Skride
Violin
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, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Concertgebouworkest, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Orchestre de Paris, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and NHK Symphony Orchestra.
She enjoys close collaborations with conductors such as Marin Alsop, Christoph Eschenbach, Edward Gardner, Susanna Mälkki, Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Dima Slobodeniouk, John Storgårds, Juraj Valčuha, and Kazuki Yamada.
Upcoming highlights for Baiba Skride include her return to the Houston Symphony to perform Britten’s Violin Concerto with conductor Juraj Valčuha, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra under Tabita Berglund, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, and she joins the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with Kazuki Yamada on tour.
Recent highlights include critically acclaimed performances of Shostakovich’s violin concertos with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Andris Nelsons, and with the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester as part of the inaugural Shostakovich Festival.
In recent
seasons she has made highly anticipated returns to the Philharmonia Orchestra,
hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Dresdner Philharmoniker, and Netherlands Radio
Philharmonic Orchestra. In North America, Skride is a frequent guest with major
orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, San
Francisco Symphony, Houston Symphony, Utah Symphony, and Baltimore Symphony.
In 2025, Baiba Skride released the Shostakovich “Violin Concertos” with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons on Deutsche Grammophon. The recording was nominated for an Opus Klassik Award in the category of Best Concert Recording.
With Orfeo, she released Gubaidulina’s “Triple Concerto” with the NDR Radiophilharmonie (Hannover) and Andrew Manze and Britten’s “Violin Concerto” and “Double Concerto” with the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien and Marin Alsop. Her extensive discography with Orfeo also includes all of Mozart’s violin concertos with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Bartók’s concertos with the WDR Sinfonieorchester, and works by Bernstein, Korngold, and Rózsa with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
Baiba Skride is an internationally sought-after chamber musician and performs regularly at festivals and concert halls across the world, including the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Musikverein Wien, Wigmore Hall London, Louvre Paris, as well as touring in North America and Australia.
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 was born
into a musical Latvian family in Riga and continued her studies from 1995 with
Petru Munteanu at the Rostock University of Music and Theatre. She plays the ‘Yfrah
Neaman’ Stradivarius kindly on loan by the Neaman family through Beare’s
International Violin Society.
SEASON 2025 / 2026
Latest Recordings
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SHOSTAKOVICH - Symphonies, Concertos, Lady Macbeth
03.2025Deutsche Grammophon -
Sofia Gubaidulina: Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello and Bayan & Rejoice! for Violin
09.2024Orfeo -
News
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06.09.2024Baiba Skride: New Gubaidulina Album Out Now
Press
"Skride impresses from the outset, grabbing the attention in the haunting opening phrases of Bernstein’s Serenade, and describing the violin’s expansive line with piercing clarity. Her virtuosity never falters through its five quixotic movements, and particularly lovely is the achingly beautiful fourth movement, ‘Agathon’."
The Strad, Catherine Nelson, 01.01.2019
"As this appropriately refined and witty performance from Latvian violinist Baiba Skride reminded us, the piece does at times attain a refined dancing rapture. Sensuality was kept firmly at bay by lemony dissonances in the melodic line, touched in by Skride and the orchestra with insinuating slyness."
The Telegraph, Ivan Hewett, 04.09.2018
"The violin sound of Skride whirs beguilingly; dauntingly seductive, she takes up the melodies which carry the audience into a sombre world. Skride creates such a gigantic volume that it almost sounds like she has a violoncello under her chin. Phenomenal."
Berliner Tagesspiegel, Christopher Warmuth, 03.02.2018
Calendar
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17.03.2026Stadtcasino BaselBaselLearn more
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09.05.2026Meistersingerhalle NürnbergLearn more
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29.05.2026National Concert Hall DublinDublinLearn more