The Beethoven Academy presents an award worth 10,000 euros to honor musicians who stand up for human rights, peace, freedom, and also stand up against poverty. The 76-year-old Kremer has publicly expressed his position, condemning Russia’s wars of aggression in Ukraine and Chechnya.
The presentation of the Beethoven Prize in the field of human rights will take place on November 19 in Bonn, Germany.
The website “kremeratabaltica.com” states that Kremer was born on February 27, 1947 in Riga. At the age of four, he began violin lessons with his father, a musician of the Radio Symphony Orchestra, and his grandfather, a former soloist of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra and a prominent violin teacher.
At the age of seven, he started studying at the Emīlas Dārziņš Music School, and at the age of sixteen he received Latvia’s First Prize. Two years later, Krämer started studying with David Oistrach at the Moscow Conservatory.
Kremer has triumphed in many important competitions, for example, in 1967 at the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels, in 1969 at the Montreal International Music Competition, as well as winning first place both at the 1969 Paganini Competition in Genoa and at the 1970 Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow.
The artist has performed on almost all important stages of the world’s concert halls, played with almost all the best-known European and North American orchestras and conductors.
Kremer has recorded and released more than 120 music albums. Several of them have won prestigious awards. In 2016, Kremer received the “Praemium Imperiale” award of the Japan Art Association.
In 1997, Krämer founded the chamber orchestra “Kremerata Baltica”, which consists of musicians from three Baltic countries – Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
Krämers and “Kremerata Baltica” have gone on tours all over the world, appearing on the stages of major festivals and concert halls. Recorded more than 25 albums in cooperation with such labels as “Teldec”, “Nonesuch”, “Burleske”, “Deutsche Grammophon” and “ECM”.
Kremer plays music on an instrument made by Nikola Amati in 1641. He is the author of several books, the latest of which “(Un)Winged Thoughts” was published in 2022.
2023-10-02 13:23:32
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