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"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Gidon Kremer

Gidon Kremer, born in Riga in 1947, has established a world-wide reputation as one of the most original and compelling artists of his generation. He has won numerous awards for his work including most recently Japan’s 2016 Praemium Imperiale. Kremer’s association with ECM began with Arvo Pärt’s Tabula Rasa, which launched ECM New Series in 1984. In 1997, he founded the Kremerata Baltica chamber orchestra to foster outstanding young musicians from the three Baltic States. Since then, he has toured the world's festivals and concert halls with the orchestra. Previous ECM recordings with Kremerata Baltica include albums with music of Giya Kancheli, Gustav Mahler, Dmitri Shostakovich, Victor Kissine, and Sofia Gubaidulina, as well as the previous Weinberg set (ECM 2368/69) which won the Choc de l’année of France’s Classica magazine.