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Gidon Kremer

Country: Latvia

Gidon Kremer is a Latvian-German violinist, born in Riga in 1947, when Latvia was part of the Soviet Union. He studied with David Oistrakh at the Moscow Conservatory from 1965 and won the Paganini Competition in 1969 and the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1970. Since settling in Germany in 1980 he has combined the standard repertoire with a long commitment to composers of his own time, among them Alfred Schnittke, Arvo Pärt, Sofia Gubaidulina and Astor Piazzolla.