Driven by his strikingly uncompromising artistic philosophy, Gidon Kremer has established a worldwide reputation as one of his generation’s most original and compelling artists.

His repertoire encompasses standard classical scores and music by leading twentieth and twenty-first century composers. He has championed the works of numerous contemporary composers and premiered a wide range of significant new compositions, many of which have been dedicated to him. His name is closely associated with such composers as Alfred Schnittke, Arvo Pärt, Giya Kancheli, Sofia Gubaidulina, Valentin Silvestrov, Luigi Nono, Edison Denisov, Georgs Pelēcis, Pēteris Vasks, Raminta Šerkšnytė, Leonid Desyatnikov, Victor Kissine, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, Michael Nyman, Philip Glass and Astor Piazzolla, whose works he performs in ways that respect tradition while being fully alive to their freshness and originality. It is fair to say that no other soloist of comparable international stature has done more to promote the cause of contemporary composers and new music for violin.

In 1997 Maestro Kremer founded Kremerata Baltica chamber orchestra to foster outstanding young musicians from the three Baltic States – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Since then, the ensemble and its founder have toured extensively together, appearing at the world’s leading festivals and concert venues. They have also recorded almost 40 albums for the Teldec, Nonesuch, Sony, Deutsche Grammophon and ECM labels.

Gidon Kremer has recorded over 200 albums, many of which have received
prestigious international awards. His honours include the Ernst von Siemens
Musikpreis, a Grammy Award, the Bundesverdienstkreuz, Lielā mūzikas balva
(Latvia’’s highest award in music), the UNESCO Prize,the Una Vita Nella Musica – Artur Rubinstein Prize, the Praemium Imperiale (2016) which is widely considered to be the Nobel Prize of music, the prize Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts in Germany, the Beethoven Bonn Prize (2023), and the ICMA Lifetime Achievement Award (2025).

His commitment to the “discovery” of the composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg, for which Kremer has rendered particularly outstanding services in recent years, should also be emphasised, with highly acclaimed albums released by Deutsche Grammophon, Accentus Music and ECM.