Eva Bindere

EVA BINDERE
She is a violinist, a chamber musician, and a soloist. She was born in Riga, Latvia, in a well-known family of musicians.

As a young girl Eva took her first steps towards becoming a musician in Emils Darzins Special Music College and then moved forward to do her bachelor’s degree in Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music with teachers Anete Zvaigzne, Uldis Sprudzs and Andris Baumanis. It was the autumn of 1997 when she was awarded a scholarship to study with Eduard Schmieder in Dallas, USA for a year. Eva has been a member of Latvian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, however, in 1997, when Gidon Kremer announced an audition for a new chamber orchestra, Eva auditioned and since then was the first violin of Kremerata Baltica for 15 years until 2012. She has performed with Kremerata Baltica almost everywhere in the world, many times as a soloist and as a duo partner with Gidon Kremer. The CD “After Mozart” with Eva being a soloist received a Grammy award. Eva founded a string quartet named “Euphonia” together with her colleagues from Kremerata in 2004. Eva has always had a special love for chamber music, she has had great opportunities to play together with such artists as violinists Pierre Amoyal, Renaud Capucon, Lukas Hagen, Boris Garlitsky, violists Maxim Rysanov, Veronika Hagen, cellists Yo-Yo Ma, Mario Brunello and Boris Pergamenschikov, pianists Katrine Gislinge, Leif Uve Andsnes and Alexander Melnikov. Eva is regularly playing with The Russian Virtuosi of Europe led by the professor of the Royal Academy of London – violinist Yuri Zhislin. Recently Eva has been asked to lead the orchestra for the world famous conducting course led by Maestro Paavo Jarvi in Tallinn, Estonia.