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The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University April 25, 2005 | Vol. 34 No. 31
 
Shriver Hall Series Adds Special Concert by Gidon Kremer

Kremer
PHOTO BY MICHAEL BENABIB

Legendary violinist Gidon Kremer makes his Shriver Hall Concert Series debut at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, May 2, in a program of works by Shostakovich and Alexander Wustin. Joining Kremer will be his five-member ensemble, Kremerata Baltica.

In the 30-year course of his distinguished career, Kremer has established a worldwide reputation as one of the most original and compelling artists of his generation. He has appeared on virtually every major concert stage with the most celebrated orchestras of Europe and America and has collaborated with today's foremost conductors and instrumentalists. His unusually extensive repertoire encompasses the standard classical and Romantic violin works as well as music by 20th-century masters such as Henze, Berg and Stockhausen. He also has championed the works of living Russian and Eastern European composers and has performed many important new compositions, several of them dedicated to him.

In 1996, Kremer founded the Kremerata Baltica chamber orchestra to foster outstanding young musicians from the three Baltic states. He undertakes regular concert tours with the orchestra, serving as artistic director and soloist. He and the Kremerata Baltica were awarded a Grammy for their 2001 Nonesuch recording After Mozart.

The program at Homewood's Shriver Hall includes Wustin's Offering for piano quartet and percussion, Shostakovich's viola sonata and Shostakovich's 15th Symphony transcribed for piano trio and percussion by Victor Derevyanko and Andrei Pushkarev.

Tickets are $33, $17 student and $8 student rush (one hour prior to concert). For tickets and information, call 410-516-7164 or go to www.shriverconcerts.org.

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