Lauma Skride

The pianist Lauma Skride, who was born in 1982, comes from a Latvian musical family and began playing the piano at five. She studied with Anita Paze in Riga and with Volker Banfiled in Hamburg. She first became known to a wider public in duo performances with her sister, the violinist Baiba Skride. Soon, however, she also achieved success as a soloist, appearing with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic, and others. Together with Baiba Skride, Lise Berthaud, and Harriet Krijgh, she forms the Skride Quartet, which has performed at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall in London, the Schubertiade Hohenems, and the Tanglewood Festival. She has also collaborated with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Sol Gabetta, Jörg Widmann, and Christian Tetzlaff. In 2008, she was awarded the Beethoven Ring.

June 2026