Gidon Kremer
Aged 16 Gidon was awarded the First Prize of the Latvian Republic. Gidon Kremer went on to win a series of prestigious awards, including prizes in the 1967 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels and 1969 Montreal International Music Competition and first prize in both the 1969 Paganini and 1970 Tchaikovsky International Competitions.
He has a large discography on the Deutsche Grammophon label, for which he has recorded since 1978. He has also recorded for Philips Records, EMI, Decca Records, ECM[6] and Nonesuch Records.
Gidon Kremer has made over 120 albums In 2015 Deutsche Grammophon/. Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica’s recording of Philip Glass’s Violin Concerto No 2 was a lnadmark. To mark the 70th birthday of the violinist, Deutsche Grammophon issued 22 CDs of the complete recordings of violin concertos
Gidon Kremer plays an instrument made by Nicola Amati in 1641.