Lauma Skride

Lauma Skride's playing is wonderfully sensitive, with marvelous tone quality, and always with highly virtuosic vigour, according to a review by the Bavarian Broadcasting Service. Combined with brilliant technique, these are the qualities with which Lauma Skride captivates audiences on major concert stages throughout the world, both as a soloist and chamber musician.

Lauma Skride, who was awarded the Beethoven Ring in 2008, is highly acclaimed for her interpretations of Germanic classical and romantic repertoire. She has appeared with various orchestras such as Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg & Dresden Philharmonic, and the Orquesta de Gran Canaria. Lauma Skride performs with conductors such as Andris Nelsons, Kristjan Järvi, Anu Tali, Muhai Tang, Peter Ruzicka, John Storgårds, Pedro Halffter.

Lauma Skride is also committed to the long established duo with her sister Baiba Skride.
Lauma loves chamber music and performs with the cellists Daniel Müller-Schott, Sol Gabetta and Julian Steckel, as well as with Jörg Widmann, Christian Tetzlaff and the Armida Quartett.
She has been awarded an ECHO Classic Award in 2007 as Best Young Artist.
Recently in 2015 thee sisters released a CD with a pure Scandinavian repertoire.
Born in 1982 in Riga, Latvia, Lauma Skride is the youngest of three daughters in a musical family. She began playing the piano at the age of five and was later a pupil of Anita Paze at the Emil Darzin School of Music in Riga. She then studied under Volker Banfield at the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg. Lauma Skride has participated in numerous international competitions since the age of eleven, among them the Maria Canals Competition in Spain and the Cleveland International Piano Competition in the USA, and has won several prizes.