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Gidon Kremer is know to musicians the world over a man who has new ideas – and good ones. He is known also as one of the liveliest performing musicians in the world today, and the man who has done more for contemporary composers in the last quarter of the twentieth century than any other on his level. His latest and most passionately held idea is the formation of a new orchestra, drawn from the youth of three Baltic states, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. He calls this the Kremerata Baltica and he asked his friend Saulius Sondeckis to help him put it together. The most striking characteristics of this unusual artist are his individuality, his commitment, his apparently tireless energy and the fact that he collaborates, in many different ways, with more musical friends than perhaps any other international soloists. “Music making is, for me, sharing emotions with friends.
